Derek Winnert

Men in Black: International * (2019, Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, Liam Neeson, Emma Thompson) – Movie Review

Director F Gary Gray’s Men in Black: International (2019) is a weak and witless reboot, dumping the original cast, in which an American woman (Tessa Thompson) somehow pushes her way into the Men in Black […]

Jun, 14 · in Reviews

Drum * (1976, Warren Oates, Ken Norton, Isela Vega, Pam Grier, Yaphet Kotto, John Colicos, Brenda Sykes, Paula Kelly, Fiona Lewis, Royal Dano) – Classic Movie Review 8593

Director Steve Carver’s 1976 movie Drum is an embarrassing, lurid, stop-at-nothing sequel to the 1975 Mandingo, based on the follow-up novel by Kyle Onstott, about the misadventures of an 1860 New Orleans whorehouse slave called […]

Jun, 14 · in Uncategorized

Battle Beyond the Stars *** (1980, Richard Thomas, Robert Vaughn, John Saxon, George Peppard, Sam Jaffe) – Classic Movie Review 8592

Director Jimmy T Murakami’s 1980 movie Battle Beyond the Stars is a cheeky and entertaining slice of sci-fi from executive producer Roger Corman and New World Pictures, cheerfully mixing The Magnificent Seven with Star Wars. […]

Jun, 14

Android **** (1982, Klaus Kinski, Don Keith Opper, Brie Howard) – Classic Movie Review 8591

Director Aaron Lipstadt’s 1982 Android is a sprightly, enjoyable low-budget Roger Corman-produced reworking of themes and ideas that also appear in Blade Runner and numerous other sci-fi films of the late Seventies and early Eighties, […]

Jun, 14

The Don Is Dead ** (1973, Anthony Quinn, Frederic Forrest, Robert Forster, Al Lettieri, Angel Tompkins, Charles Cioffi) – Classic Movie Review 8590

‘In the Fall of 1971, Don Angelo DiMorra began an innocent affair with a beautiful woman. It started the bloodiest carnival of murder in the history of American crime.’ Frederic Forrest and Al Lettieri star […]

Jun, 14

The Andromeda Strain **** (1971, James Olson, Arthur Hill, David Wayne, Kate Reid, Paula Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 8589

Arthur Hill stars as concerned scientist Dr Stone, who sacrifices himself for humanity in director Robert Wise’s tense, suspenseful, intelligent and just plain excellent 1971 sci-fi adventure The Andromeda Strain, adapted by screen-writer Nelson Gidding from […]

Jun, 13

Mandingo *** (1975, James Mason, Susan George, Perry King, Richard Ward, Brenda Sykes, Ken Norton) – Classic Movie Review 8588

James Mason is surprisingly cast and equally surprisingly successful as Warren Maxwell, a rotten, racist Southern plantation owner, in director Richard Fleischer’s steamy and provocative 1840s-set Louisiana melodrama Mandingo from 1975. Maxwell arranges a marriage […]

Jun, 13

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