Derek Winnert

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Golden Years ** (2016, Bernard Hill, Virginia McKenna, Simon Callow, Philip Davis, Una Stubbs, Sue Johnston) – Movie Review

Bernard Hill (aged 71) and Virginia McKenna (85) do well as old married couple Arthur and Martha Goode, who take to robbing banks as a way out of the financial problems of old age. My […]

Apr, 28

The Long Riders **** (1980, Stacy Keach, James Keach, David Carradine, Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine, Dennis Quaid, Randy Quaid) – Classic Movie Review 3406

Director Walter Hill’s thrilling 1980 film version of the well-known, much told story of the Jesse James outlaw gang of bank robbers starts with the useful gimmick of four sets of actual brothers in the star parts […]

Feb, 24

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot **** (1974, Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy, Geoffrey Lewis, Catherine Bach, Gary Busey) – Classic Movie Review 3167

Young writer-director Michael Cimino’s exciting 1974 thriller finds Clint Eastwood on his best form as Thunderbolt, a hardened artilleryman bank robber who flees from jail, chums up with Lightfoot, an aimless, flippant, irresponsible, irreverent young punk (Jeff […]

Dec, 18

They Live by Night ***** (1948, Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell, Howard DaSilva, Jay C Flippen) – Classic Movie Review 1,585

Nicholas Ray’s 1948 film noir They Live by Night stars Farley Granger as a young fugitive who falls in love with a woman (Cathy O’Donnell) but they become a couple on the run. This beautiful, supremely sensitive, highly […]

Aug, 23

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ***** (1969, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross) – Classic Movie Review 793

The stupendous 1969 comedy Western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with Paul Newman and Robert Redford won four Oscars. Director George Roy Hill’s 1969’s gem is a stupendous comedy Western that put him together […]

Feb, 02

Heat ***** (1995, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora) – Classic Movie Review 225

Al Pacino’s LA cop Lieutenant Vincent Hanna and Robert De Niro’s master thief Neil McCauley battle it out in Michael Mann’s brilliant cat-and-mouse epic gangster thriller film Heat. Val Kilmer plays crew member Chris Shiherlis. […]

Sep, 05

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