Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Nicaragua"

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Under Fire ****½ (1983, Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy, Ed Harris) – Classic Movie Review 10,303

Director Roger Spottiswoode’s sizzling 1983 Under Fire is an absolutely thrilling, first-rate political action thriller about the Nicaragua conflict in 1979, with Gene Hackman and Nick Nolte at their best as newsmen Alex Grazier and […]

Sep, 14

Walker *** (1987, Ed Harris, Richard Masur, René Auberjonois, Marlee Matlin, Peter Boyle) – Classic Movie Review 8027

Director Alex Cox’s 1987 political adventure Walker is about a real-life 1850s American mercenary leader called William Walker (Ed Harris) who is funded to invade Nicaragua, join up with the liberal forces and defeat the corrupt […]

Jan, 18

Kill the Messenger ***½ (2014, Jeremy Renner, Rosemarie DeWitt, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Andy Garcia, Ray Liotta, Lucas Hedges) – Movie Review

Jeremy Renner is excellent in an intense, low-key performance as the real-life Gary Webb, a San Jose Mercury News journalist reporter who in 1996 exposes the CIA’s role in importing cocaine into California to raise funds […]

Mar, 05

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