Derek Winnert

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Blown Away *** (1994, Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Suzy Amis, Lloyd Bridges, Forest Whitaker) – Classic Movie Review 7677

Director Stephen Hopkins’s 1994 action crime thriller Blown Away is an involving, suspenseful and intelligent thriller but at the same time it is uncomfortable and exploitative feeling. Jeff Bridges stars as Boston bomb squad man […]

Oct, 19

Time Bomb [Terror on a Train] *** (1953, Glenn Ford, Anne Vernon, Maurice Denham) – Classic Movie Review 7288

Director Ted Tetzlaff’s suspenseful and commendable 1953 MGM British black and white B-movie film noir crime thriller Time Bomb stars Glenn Ford and Anne Vernon as married couple Peter and Janine Lyncort, while John Horsley (Railway […]

Jul, 14

Jet Storm ***½ (1959, Richard Attenborough, Stanley Baker, Mai Zetterling, Diane Cilento, Hermione Baddeley, Harry Secombe, Virginia Maskell) – Classic Movie Review 5934

This tense 1959 British thriller, tautly directed by Cy Endfield [C Raker Endfield], the maker of Zulu, is a more than decent early example of the airplane disaster picture, in which a man’s mad passion […]

Aug, 18

The Brain [Vengeance] [A Dead Man Seeks His Murderer] ** (1962, Anne Heywood, Peter van Eyck, Cecil Parker, Bernard Lee, Jeremy Spenser, Maxine Audley) – Classic Movie Review 5608

The Brain belongs to a dead tycoon, though surgeons keep it going and it compels one of them, Dr Peter Corrie (Peter van Eyck), to track the tycoon’s killer for Vengeance, as A Dead Man […]

Jun, 14

The Small Back Room [Hour of Glory] **** (1949, David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins, Leslie Banks) – Classic Movie Review 5502

Writer-producer-directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1949 film thriller is an intricate and intimate version of the excellent 1943 Nigel Balchin novel about a broken-down, embittered World War Two British bomb expert scientist and his […]

May, 26

Dark Star **** (1974, Brian Narelle, Andrew Dre Pahich, Cal Kuniholm, Dan O’Bannon) – Classic Movie Review 5367

Co-writer/ co-producer/ scorer/ director John Carpenter’s low-budget ($60,000) 1974 feature film début is a rollicking, anarchic trip into space that merrily debunks a host of other space movies, notably 2001: A Space Odyssey, and paves […]

Apr, 29

Heaven **** (2002, Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Remo Girone, Stefania Rocca) – Classic Movie Review 4934

The bomb that Philippa (Cate Blanchett), a British teacher living in Turin, builds a home-made bomb to bring justice to Turin’s biggest drug dealer after her husband’s death from a drug overdose and the police ignore her […]

Jan, 25

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