Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "prison break"

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Escape from Pretoria **** (2020, Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Webber, Ian Hart, Nathan Page) – Movie Review 

Co-writer/ director Francis Annan’s real-life thriller Escape from Pretoria is a good old-fashioned prison escape story, with a commendably intense and non-starry performance by Daniel Radcliffe as a Seventies jailed ANC activist who makes a huge […]

Mar, 06

The Big Shot *** (1942, Humphrey Bogart, Irene Manning, Richard Travis, Susan Peters, Stanley Ridges, Minor Watson, Chick Chandler) – Classic Movie Review 6,902

The entertaining 1942 film noir crime thriller The Big Shot is a now forgotten assembly-line movie for Humphrey Bogart, who stars as crime boss Duke Berne, put on trial after a mistake on an identity […]

Apr, 08

Lucky Break *** (2001, James Nesbitt, Bill Nighy, Timothy Spall, Christopher Plummer, Olivia Williams, Lennie James, Ron Cook, Frank Harper) – Classic Movie Review 2124

Producer-director Peter Cattaneo’s spritely and amusing 2001 British comedy Lucky Break stars James Nesbitt, Timothy Spall, Bill Nighy and Lennie James as a bunch of convicts who are locked up in a jolly sort of […]

Jan, 28

Brute Force **** (1947, Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Ann Blyth, Ella Raines, Yvonne De Carlo) – Classic Movie Review 1580

Director Jules Dassin’s 1947 film noir prison-break thriller Brute Force is admirably tough and exciting, quite brutal for its day. It has exactly the right star in Burt Lancaster as Westgate Penitentiary inmate Joe Collins, […]

Aug, 23

Muppets Most Wanted ** (2014, Ricky Gervais, Ty Burrell, Tina Fey) – Movie Review

After their successful revival in 2011, Disney’s The Muppets 2 movie is the properly daft tale of a Muppets world tour, a Kermit the Frog lookalike and his dastardly sidekick. Unlikely choice Ricky Gervais stars as Dominic Badguy, […]

Mar, 27

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