Derek Winnert

Deadly Pursuit [Shoot to Kill] *** (1988, Sidney Poitier, Tom Berenger, Kirstie Alley) – Classic Movie Review 10,628

FBI agent Warren Stantin (Sidney Poitier) and mountain guide and expert tracker Jonathan Knox (Tom Berenger) team up to track an evil killer in Roger Spottiswoode’s tough, well-made 1988 action thriller Deadly Pursuit [Shoot to […]

Dec, 04 · in Reviews

Al Capone **** (1959, Rod Steiger, Fay Spain, James Gregory, Joe De Santiis, Murvyn Vye, Nehemiah Persoff, Martin Balsam) – Classic Movie Review 10,627

Director Richard Wilson’s 1959 crime thriller biopic Al Capone showcases one of Rod Steiger’s quintessential performances, just stopping short of parody, as Chicago’s best known citizen, the Prohibition-era mobster Alphonse Capone (1899-1947), which lights up […]

Dec, 04 · in Reviews

Capone ** (1975, Ben Gazzara, Susan Blakely, Harry Guardino, John Cassavetes, John Davis Chandler, Frank Campanella, Sylvester Stallone) – Classic Movie Review 10,626

Director Steve Carver’s and producer Roger Corman’s 1975 crime thriller biopic Capone stars as Al Capone Ben Gazzara, who chews on his cigar (but not the scenery this time) and chomps out his words, giving […]

Dec, 04

Air America * (1990, Mel Gibson, Robert Downey Jr, Nancy Travis) – Classic Movie Review 10,625

Director Roger Spottiswoode’s 1990 film Air America stars Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr as maverick veteran pilot Gene Ryack (Gibson) and cheeky young upstart Billy Covington (Downey Jr), who work together as renegade aviators […]

Dec, 04

Terror Train *** (1980, Ben Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hart Bochner) – Classic Movie Review 10,624

Director Roger Spottiswoode’s debut is the 1980 Canadian horror thriller Terror Train, a cultish, above-average stalk and slash movie, featuring Jamie Lee Curtis – then the cinema’s best screamer since Fay Wray – as one […]

Dec, 03

The Pursuit of D B Cooper *** (1981, Robert Duvall, Treat Williams, Kathryn Harrold) – Classic Movie Review 10,623

Director Roger Spottiswoode’s 1981 film The Pursuit of D B Cooper is based on the 1980 book Free Fall: A Novel by J D Reed and stars Robert Duvall as relentless insurance sleuth Bill Gruen, […]

Dec, 03

A Feast at Midnight ** (1994, Freddie Findlay, Christopher Lee, Robert Hardy, Edward Fox) – Classic Movie Review 10,622

Director Justin Hardy’s 1994 British family comedy drama film A Feast at Midnight is a pleasant and well-meaning but rather weak, none too amusing children’s comedy about a lonely 10-year-old boy called Magnus (Freddie Findlay) […]

Dec, 03

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