Derek Winnert

The Password Is Courage **** (1962, Dirk Bogarde, Maria Perschy, Alfred Lynch, Nigel Stock, Reginald Beckwith) – Classic Movie Review 8,866

The Password Is Courage **** (1962, Dirk Bogarde, Maria Perschy, Alfred Lynch, Nigel Stock, Reginald Beckwith) – Classic Movie Review 8,866

The expert 1962 British war drama film The Password Is Courage stars Dirk Bogarde, who is on very good form as real-life Sgt Major Charlie Coward, the British officer who kept escaping and being captured […]

Aug, 25 · in Reviews

Blind Fury *** (1989, Rutger Hauer, Terry O’Quinn, Brandon Call, Noble Willingham, Lisa Blount, Nick Cassavetes, Meg Foster) – Classic Movie Review 8865

Director Phillip Noyce’s 1989 Blind Fury stars Rutger Hauer as Nick Parker, a war-blinded samurai swordsman and Vietnam vet, who rescues Billy Devereaux (Brandon Call), the spoiled son of his old army buddy Frank Devereaux […]

Aug, 25 · in Reviews

Bait *** (2019, Edward Rowe, Mary Woodvine, Simon Shepherd, Giles King) – Movie Review

Writer/ director Mark Jenkin’s Bait (2019) is a bold independent experimental film focusing on a brother brother conflict and the clash between tourism and the old fishing boat values down old Cornwall way. It runs […]

Aug, 25

Pain and Glory [Dolor y Gloria] ***** (2019, Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Cecilia Roth, Julieta Serrano, Nora Navas, César Vicente) – Movie Review

Writer/ director Pedro Almodóvar’s reflective semi-autobiographical Pain and Glory [Dolor y Gloria] (2019) is tremendous, as near perfection as any film gets. Almodóvar is on great form in serious mode in one of his best […]

Aug, 25

The House of the Seven Gables **** (1940, George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay, Vincent Price ) – Classic Movie Review 8,864

Universal Studios’ enjoyable 1940 black and white Gothic thriller melodrama film The House of the Seven Gables is based on the 1851 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and stars George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay and Vincent Price. […]

Aug, 24

Hot Shots! Part Deux ***½ (1993, Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Valeria Golino, Richard Crenna) – Classic Movie Review 8863

Director Jim Abrahams’s 1993 Hot Shots! Part Deux brings back Charlie Sheen as Topper Harley when US president Tug Benson (Lloyd Bridges) sends a commando team into Iraq to rescue the men who went in […]

Aug, 24

Hot Shots! **** (1991, Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges, Kristy Swanson, Kevin Dunn, Jon Cryer, Efrem Zimbalist Jr, Bill Irwin) – Classic Movie Review 8862

Director Jim Abrahams’s 1991 Hot Shots! is an often hilarious Airplane!-style parody of Top Gun and all the other aviator movies (plus for good measure and for no particular reason Dances with Wolves, Gone with […]

Aug, 24

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