Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

Rambo: First Blood Part II ** (1985, Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Charles Napier) – Classic Movie Review 7645

Titanic and Avatar director James Cameron helped Sylvester Stallone to write the screenplay for director George Pan Cosmatos’s 1985 Rambo: First Blood Part II, the first sequel to Rambo: First Blood, in which John Rambo […]

Oct, 08

The Cassandra Crossing ** (1976, Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Martin Sheen) – Classic Movie Review 7644

‘A Plague Infested Train Speeds Across Europe To Certain Death At Cassandra Crossing.’ Sounds fun, doesn’t it? Somehow producers Lee Grade and Carlo Ponti persuaded a large number of first-rate actors to jump aboard a […]

Oct, 07

On the Double *** (1961, Danny Kaye, Dana Wynter, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Diana Dors, Margaret Rutherford) – Classic Movie Review 7643

Co-writer/ producer/ director Melville Shavelson’s 1961 On the Double provides a witty title for a witty Danny Kaye comedy in which he plays Private First Class Ernie Williams, an American GI who specialises in impersonations […]

Oct, 07

Mandy *** (2018, Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache, Olwen Fouéré, Ned Dennehy) – 2018 Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Panos Cosmatos’s deranged 1983-set 2018 horror thriller Mandy stars Nicolas Cage and Andrea Riseborough as bearded lumberjack Red and his fantasy paperback-reading artist girlfriend Mandy, who live happily in a secluded cabin in the […]

Oct, 07

Variety [Varieté] **** (1925, Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Lya De Putti) – Classic Movie Review 7642

Director Ewald André Dupont’s 1925 Variety [aka Varieté, or Jealousy or Vaudeville] is an exciting German classic silent melodrama of fierily aroused passion, with an impressive silent movie performance by Emil Jannings as angry, betrayed trapeze artist […]

Oct, 07

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