Derek Winnert

The Mean Season **** (1985, Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Jordan, Richard Masur, Richard Bradford, Joe Pantoliano, Andy Garcia) – Classic Movie Review 7652

Director Phillip Borsos’s 1985 neo noir The Mean Season is a gripping, powerful, atmospheric crime thriller with an excellent role for Kurt Russell as Malcolm Anderson, the Miami newspaper reporter used as a public mouthpiece […]

Oct, 09 · in Reviews

Tango & Cash **** (1989, Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Teri Hatcher, Jack Palance) – Classic Movie Review 7651

Director Andrei Konchalovsky’s appealing 1989 Tango & Cash teams Sylvester Stallone as Lieutenant Raymond Tango with Kurt Russell Stallone as Lieutenant Gabriel Cash, LA’s top two rival cops. Rivals they may be, but the mismatched […]

Oct, 09 · in Reviews

Tequila Sunrise **** (1988, Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell, Raul Julia, J T Walsh, Arliss Howard, Ayre Gross) – Classic Movie Review 7650

The intelligent and gripping 1988 romantic crime thriller Tequila Sunrise is written and directed by Robert Towne (who scripted Chinatown). It boasts a good Eighties cast, with three glossy and appealing stars: Mel Gibson as […]

Oct, 09

Leviathan *** (1989, Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays, Daniel Stern, Meg Foster, Ernie Hudson) – Classic Movie Review 7649

Director George Pan Cosmatos’s 1989 sci-fi horror thriller Leviathan stars Peter RoboCop Weller as Steven Beck, the leader of a deep-sea mining crew from Florida who stumble across a sunken Russian vessel used in a disastrous experiment in […]

Oct, 09

Cobra ** (1986, Sylvester Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen, Reni Santoni) – Classic Movie Review 7648

Director George Pan Cosmatos reunites with Sylvester Stallone after Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) for the 1986 action thriller Cobra, based on the novel Fair Game by Paula Gosling, with a screenplay by Stallone […]

Oct, 08

Rambo III ** (1988, Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Marc de Jonge) – Classic Movie Review 7647

Director Peter Macdonald’s 1988 Rambo III, the second sequel to Rambo: First Blood, is an increasingly over-the-top and unsubtle American flag-waving violent action thriller, in which Sylvester Stallone’s John Rambo goes off to sort out […]

Oct, 08

Thunder Road *** (1958, Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Jacques Aubuchon, James Mitchum) – Classic Movie Review 7646

Director Arthur Ripley’s 1958 Thunder Road stars Robert Mitchum as Lucas Doolin, the definitive moonshine merchant, in this well-done, exciting and eventful film noir crime action thriller about bootlegging Kentucky mountain family folk dodging cops […]

Oct, 08

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