Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "revenge"

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Razorback **** (1984, Gregory Harrison, Arkie Whiteley, Bill Kerr, Chris Haywood, David Argue) – Classic Movie Review 2337

Director Russell Mulcahy’s brilliant, stupendously imaginative 1984 Australian horror film is razor-sharp, totally weird and completely scary. It is a notable example of the Ozploitation(Australian exploitation) movie. Based on Peter Brennan‘s novel, writer Everett De Roche’s […]

Mar, 31

Highlander: Endgame *** (2000, Christopher Lambert, Adrian Paul, Bruce Payne) – Classic Movie Review 2334

Director Douglas Aarniokoski’s 2000 unsubtle, but fast-paced, action-packed sci-fi fantasy adventure thriller brings Christopher Lambert back for his fourth turn as the sword-fighting immortal Connor MacLeod. This time he is meeting up with his long-lost immortal […]

Mar, 30

Cat Ballou **** (1965, Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin) – Classic Movie Review 2325

Director Elliot Silverstein’s likeable, raucously amusing 1965 spoof Western stars Jane Fonda as the titular Cat (Catherine) Ballou, a schoolmarm turned outlaw and Lee Marvin in dual roles as Kid Shelleen and Tim Strawn, the cinema’s most […]

Mar, 29

Wild Tales [Relatos salvajes] **** (2014, Ricardo Darin, Darío Grandinetti, María Marull, Mónica Villa) – Movie Review

Writer-director Damián Szifrón’s lovingly crafted compendium of six deadly tales of apocalyptic revenge is an absolute corker. For Szifrón, apparently, revenge is a dish best served boiling hot. The surreal, satirical black humour, mayhem and murder are all […]

Mar, 27

The Mask of Zorro **** (1998, Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones) – Classic Movie Review 2316

Director Martin Campbell’s 1998  American swashbuckler movie The Mask of Zorro is a brilliant, old-style adventure entertainment that proves they could still make them like they used to. It is based on the character of […]

Mar, 25

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ***** (1925, Ramon Novarro, Francis X Bushman, May McAvoy) – Classic Movie Review 2292

Director Fred Niblo’s glorious 1925 silent movie masterpiece of General Lew Wallace’s bestselling 1880 novel is an all-time film classic. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ stars Ramon Novarro as Judah Ben-Hur, the head of a […]

Mar, 21

John Wick **** (2014, Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Willem Dafoe, Adrianne Palicki, John Leguizamo, Ian McShane) – Classic Movie Review 2,286

Keanu Reeves stars in the 2014 action thriller film as the ex-hitman John Wick, who comes out of retirement to fight a one-man war against the gangsters who steal his car and kill his dog, […]

Mar, 20

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