Derek Winnert

Extreme Measures ** (1996, Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman, Sarah Jessica Parker, David Morse, Bill Nunn) – Classic Movie Review 5,461

The dark and gritty 1996 medical thriller film Extreme Measures stars Hugh Grant as an English doctor in peril after he uncovers a sinister conspiracy in a New York hospital and the ever-reliable Gene Hackman […]

May, 15 · in Reviews

Extreme Prejudice ** (1987, Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Michael Ironside) – Classic Movie Review 5460

Director Walter Hill’s disappointing 1987 movie kind of works as a basic action thriller but tells an extremely scrappy, violent and confused story. It reunites Hill with Powers Boothe after Southern Comfort (1981). Nick Nolte stars […]

May, 15 · in Reviews

Rapid Fire **½ (1992, Brandon Lee, Powers Booth, Nick Mancuso) – Classic Movie Review 5459

Bruce Lee’s son Brandon Lee shows considerable charisma and acting talent in director Dwight H Little’s fair 1992 martial arts action thriller that turned him into a star just before his death on the set […]

May, 15

Southern Comfort **** (1981, Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward) – Classic Movie Review 5458

Director Walter Hill’s 1981 man’s man action thriller with Vietnam on its mind is one of this great director’s finest movies. In the screenplay by Hill, producer David Giler and Michael Kane, trigger-happy National Guardsmen […]

May, 15

Red Dawn **** (1984, Patrick Swayze, C Thomas Howell, Ron O’Neal, William Smith, Powers Boothe, Charlie Sheen, Jennifer Grey) – Classic Movie Review 5,457

John Milius’s 1984 American right-wing propaganda action thriller film Red Dawn is disreputable but sneakily enjoyable. Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen and C Thomas Howell star. Co-writer/ director John Milius’s 1984 American Eighties right-wing propaganda action […]

May, 15

The Emerald Forest **** (1985, Powers Boothe, Meg Foster, Charley Boorman) – Classic Movie Review 5456

Director John Boorman’s 1985 jungle adventure The Emerald Forest is both thrilling and uplifting, with director Boorman’s own son Charley Boorman starring as Tommy, a boy kidnapped at seven and brought up by an Amazon […]

May, 15

Women in Love **** (1969, Glenda Jackson, Jennie Linden, Alan Bates, Oliver Reed) – Classic Movie Review 5455

Director Ken Russell’s safe and successful 1969 transition to the movies of D H Lawrence’s great novel Women in Love stars Glenda Jackson, who won her first Oscar for her part as Gudrun Brangwen. The […]

May, 14

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