Derek Winnert

Gunmen from Laredo * (1959, Robert Knapp, Maureen Hingert, Walter Coy, Paul Birch, Don C Harvey, Charles Horvath) – Classic Movie Review 8169

Director Wallace MacDonald’s 1959 film Gunmen from Laredo take its small place in movie history as the final Columbia Pictures Western, in a series of more than 300 low-budget films that started in 1930. It […]

Feb, 24 · in Reviews

Assassination ** (1987, Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Stephen Elliott) – Classic Movie Review 8168

Director Peter Hunt’s 1987 Assassination [The President’s Wife] is a watchable but carelessly conceived and made and unoriginal political thriller and chase movie. Charles Bronson stars as a White House secret service presidential bodyguard Jay […]

Feb, 24 · in Reviews

The Assassination Bureau *** (1969, Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Curd Jürgens, Philippe Noiret, Warren Mitchell, Clive Revill, Beryl Reid, Kenneth Griffith, Jess Conrad) – Classic Movie Review 8167

Director Basil Dearden’s 1968 British movie The Assassination Bureau stars Diana Rigg as English newswoman Sonya Winter, who sets out to expose a Russian criminal Ivan Dragomiloff (Oliver Reed)’s globetrotting band of terminators by romancing […]

Feb, 24

On the Basis of Sex **** (2018, Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer, Justin Theroux, Sam Waterston, Kathy Bates, Cailee Spaeny, Jack Reynor) – Movie Review

Felicity Jones is excellent in On the Basis of Sex (2018) as American pioneer female lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who battles for equal rights for women and reaches the top of her profession as U […]

Feb, 23

Assassins ** (1995, Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas, Julianne Moore) – Classic Movie Review 8166

Director Richard Donner’s 1995 action thriller Assassins stars Sylvester Stallone, who offers a monolithic, by-the-numbers performance as a jaded contract killer hitman called Robert Rath who plans to retire after one last job. But soon […]

Feb, 23

The Kid Who Would Be King ** (2019, Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Denise Gough, Dean Chaumoo, Tom Taylor, Rhianna Dorris)

The Kid Who Would Be King (2019) is a good-hearted but lame, tame and wilfully old-fashioned kids’ adventure movie, offering a fairly dull spin on the Arthurian legend. It just goes to show that, like […]

Feb, 23

Fall in Love at First Kiss [Yi wen ding qing] **** (2019, Talu Wang, Yun Lin, Li-Tung Chang) – Movie Review

Director Frankie Chen [Yu Shan Chen]’s Chinese teen romcom Fall in Love at First Kiss is sweet, cute, charming, fun and amusing. It pulls off the clever trick of balancing broad slapstick comedy with full-on […]

Feb, 23

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