Derek Winnert

Prime Cut **** (1972, Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Sissy Spacek) – Classic Movie Review 2,964

The brilliant, controversial 1972 American action crime thriller film Prime Cut stars Lee Marvin as a Chicago mob enforcer sent to Kansas to collect a debt from a meatpacker boss (Gene Hackman) who grinds his enemies […]

Oct, 07 · in Reviews

Rollerball * (2002, Chris Klein, Jean Reno, LL Cool J, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Naveen Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 2963

In a future world of 2005 with neither war nor crime, the public’s aggression is channelled into the ultra-violent sport of rollerball, a kind of basketball played on spiked motorbikes and deadly skates. Director John McTiernan’s […]

Oct, 06 · in Reviews

Rollerball ***** (1975, James Caan, John Houseman, Ralph Richardson, Maud Adams, John Beck, Moses Gunn) – Classic Movie Review 2,962

Norman Jewison’s 1975 futuristic sci-fi thriller film Rollerball is a triumph. It stars an outstanding James Caan, John Houseman, Ralph Richardson, Maud Adams, John Beck and Moses Gunn. Producer-director Norman Jewison’s 1975 futuristic sci-fi thriller film […]

Oct, 06

Basic * (2003, John Travolta, Connie Nielsen, Samuel L Jackson, Giovanni Ribisi, Brian Van Holt) – Classic Movie Review 2961

Director John McTiernan’s all-too-basic 2003 thriller stars John Travolta and Connie Nielsen as DEA drug agents who investigate deaths in the American army. The deaths seem to involve a sadistic sergeant, played by Samuel L Jackson. […]

Oct, 06

Flying Down to Rio **** (1933, Gene Raymond, Dolores del Rio, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Raul Roulien, Franklin Pangborn, Eric Blore) – Classic Movie Review 2960

Director Thornton Freeland’s fun and sometimes still thrilling 1933 musical Flying Down to Rio is famous now, if at all, as the first teaming of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, in what turned out to […]

Oct, 05

Wuthering Heights ***** (1939, Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp, Hugh Williams, Flora Robson) – Classic Movie Review 2,959

Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon star as Heathcliff and Cathy in the 1939 vintage movie version of Emily Brontë’s enchanting classic novel Wuthering Heights. Producer Samuel Goldwyn and director William Wyler’s 1939 vintage movie version […]

Oct, 05

WUSA **** (1970, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Perkins, Laurence Harvey, Pat Hingle, Don Gordon, Robert Quarry, Clifton James, David Huddleston, Cloris Leachman) – Classic Movie Review 2958

Director Stuart Rosenberg’s ambitious 1970 drama is a painstaking, involving and intelligent political allegory, with meaty roles for Paul Newman, his wife Joanne Woodward and Anthony Perkins, who reward audiences with careful, winning performances. Newman […]

Oct, 05

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