Derek Winnert

King Kong ***** (2005, Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Andy Serkis, Jamie Bell) – Classic Movie Review 412

Fresh from Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson had the chance to pay homage to the 1933 King Kong classic monster movie that he had adored all his life, and gleefully grabbed it with this loving […]

Nov, 16 · in Reviews

King Kong *** (1976, Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, Jessica Lange) – Classic Movie Review 411

There’s a huge monster, high adventure, tongue-in-cheek humour and even a dash of sex in director John Guillermin’s busy and conscientious but patchy and rather uninspired 1976 remake of the 1933 all-time great fantasy adventure […]

Nov, 16 · in Reviews

Thunderball **** (1965, Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi) – Classic Movie Review 410

Eon Productions’ 1965 fourth James Bond movie Thunderball is excellent vintage escapist adventure entertainment, smoothly and excitingly done, though arguably not quite as brilliant as Goldfinger and From Russia with Love. It is hugely enlivened […]

Nov, 16

Brick **** (2005, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lukas Haas, Emilie de Ravin, Matt O’Leary) – Classic Movie Review 409

Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays the lead in debut writer-director Rian (Looper) Johnson’s clever 2005 cult classic favourite neo film noir-style high school detective tale. It  won the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at the […]

Nov, 16

Die Another Day *** (2002, Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Rosamund Pike) – Classic Movie Review 408

Forty years on from Dr No, in 2002, James Bond finds that diamonds are forever as he investigates a Korean terrorist and a diamond broker. All the usual 007 elements are shaken and pretty well […]

Nov, 16

The World Is Not Enough *** (1999, Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle, Denise Richards, Judi Dench) – Classic Movie Review 407

Ice cold secret agent Pierce Brosnan returns in 1999 for his third 007 film in The World Is Not Enough, another flashy, fast-moving if predictable entry, directed by Michael Apted. In it James Bond tries to […]

Nov, 16

Tomorrow Never Dies *** (1997, Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Judi Dench, Desmond Llewelyn, Samantha Bond, Geoffrey Palmer, Joe Don Baker) – Classic Movie Review 406

Cool-as-a-cucumber Pierce Brosnan returns in 1997 for his second 007 film in this flashy, fast-moving if predictable series entry, Tomorrow Never Dies. It is greatly enlivened by a gutsy turn from Michelle Yeoh as Bond […]

Nov, 15

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