Derek Winnert

Enter the Dragon *** (1973, Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 7337

‘The first American produced martial arts spectacular!’ Director Robert Clouse’s 1973 classic martial arts action thriller Enter the Dragon finds Hollywood taking over the kung fu film and sanitising it into a glossy, escapist thriller […]

Jul, 24 · in Reviews

Time After Time **** (1979, Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen, David Warner) – Classic Movie Review 7,336

Malcolm McDowell stars as H G Wells, who jumps in his time machine and chases surgeon Dr John Leslie Stevenson (David Warner), aka Jack the Ripper, from Victorian London to 1979 San Francisco. Wells falls […]

Jul, 24 · in Reviews

Timbuktu ** (1959, Victor Mature, Yvonne De Carlo, George Dolenz, John Dehner) – Classic Movie Review 7335

Esteemed director Jacques Tourneur’s 1959 romantic action adventure Timbuktu stars Victor Mature as American mercenary and gunrunner Mike Conway, who is mixed up in a forbidden romance with married Natalie Dufort (Yvonne De Carlo), upsetting […]

Jul, 24

Tim **** (1979, Piper Laurie, Mel Gibson, Alwyn Kurts, Pat Evison) – Classic Movie Review 7,334

The 1979 Australian romantic drama Tim is a sweet and lovely film, telling a simple, heart-warming love story, based on Colleen (The Thorn Birds) McCullough’s novel. It stars Piper Laurie and Mel Gibson, both of […]

Jul, 23

Attack Force Z *** (1981, John Phillip Law, Mel Gibson, Sam Neill, Chris Haywood, John Waters) – Classic Movie Review 7333

Director Tim Burstall’s 1981 action adventure Attack Force Z is short and sharp, with good work from a cast headed by the unfairly fading American star John Phillip Law (once the archangel in Barbarella) as […]

Jul, 23

The Clinic *** (1982, Chris Haywood, Simon Burke, Gerda Nicolson) – Classic Movie Review 7332

Director David Stevens’s commendable 1983 Australian comedy The Clinic looks at just an average day in an Aussie VD and sex-ailment clinic, as patients come and go, while cynical doctor Eric Linden (Chris Haywood) looks […]

Jul, 23

‘Breaker’ Morant [Breaker Morant] ***** (1980, Edward Woodward, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Lewis Fitz-Gerald) – Classic Movie Review 7331

Director Bruce Beresford’s powerful and authentic 1980 drama ‘Breaker’ Morant is one of the gems of the first wave of the New Australian Cinema. It is 1901, in the Transvaal. British adventurer Harry ‘Breaker’ Morant (Edward […]

Jul, 23

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