Derek Winnert

Hell Is for Heroes **** (1962, Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker, Harry Guardino, James Coburn, Bob Newhart, Mike Kellin, Nick Adams) – Classic Movie Review 3460

The youngish Steve McQueen, already aged 32 after 10 years in the business, heads a powerful cast under Don Siegel’s snappy direction for this exciting, realistic 1962 World War Two war movie. It also stars […]

Mar, 08 · in Reviews,Uncategorized

The Ones Below **½ (2015, Clémence Poésy, David Morrissey, Stephen Campbell Moore, Laura Birn) – Movie Review

Clémence Poésy plays mother-to-be Kate, who has just moved into the top half of a house with her husband Justin (Stephen Campbell Moore). In true English fashion, they avoid their downstairs neighbours in the flat […]

Mar, 08 · in Reviews

Hell in the Pacific **** (1968, Lee Marvin, Toshiro Mifune) – Classic Movie Review 3459

Those great tough guys of different cultures Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune star as an American pilot and a Japanese naval officer called Captain Tsuruhiko Kuroda, brought together by fate on a small uninhabited island […]

Mar, 07

Hell Drivers ***½ (1957, Stanley Baker, Peggy Cummins, Herbert Lom, Patrick McGoohan, William Hartnell, Wilfrid Lawson, Sidney James, Jill Ireland, Alfie Bass, Gordon Jackson, David McCallum) – Classic Movie Review 3458

  Writer-director Cy Endfield’s 1957 British film noir crime drama Hell Drivers stars Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins and Patrick McGoohan. Stanley Baker celebrates his first lead role by giving one of his best tough-guy turns as Joe ‘Tom’ Yateley, a one-time […]

Mar, 07

Hell and High Water **** (1954, Richard Widmark, Bella Darvi, Victor Francen, Cameron Mitchell, Gene Evans, David Wayne) – Classic Movie Review 3457

20th Century Fox’s complex, nail-biting, labyrinthine Cold War thriller about an American submarine’s mission up to the Arctic to put a spoke in the wheels of a Chinese conspiracy to start a war against America […]

Mar, 07

The Divergent Series: Allegiant ***½ (2016, Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Ansel Elgort, Jeff Daniels, Zoë Kravitz, Naomi Watts, Miles Teller, Bill Skarsgård, Jonny Weston, Maggie Q, Octavia Spencer) – Movie Review

The third instalment of the blockbuster franchise shows the Divergent series getting better and better. With Veronica Roth’s third series novel Allegiant split into two movies – the fourth franchise to do so, after Harry Potter, The […]

Mar, 07

Caddyshack *** (1980, Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Bill Murray, Michael O’Keefe) – Classic Movie Review 3456

Caddyshack is a funny game of feuding at a snooty golf club, with par-for-the-course characters in a supercilious president, the cheeky professional, the rude ground-keeper, the aspiring caddy and the vulgar millionaire owner. Co-writer/director Harold […]

Mar, 07

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