Derek Winnert

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Touching the Void **** (2003, Brendan Mackey, Nicholas Aaron) – Classic Movie Review 10,767

Director Kevin Macdonald’s 2003 Touching the Void is the breathtakingly exciting and awesome Bafta award-winning documentary-style drama, re-creating the events of 1985 when two mountaineers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, try to scale the west […]

Jan, 08

The Missing Juror *** (1944, Jim Bannon, Janis Carter, George Macready, Jean Stevens, Joseph Crehan) – Classic Movie Review 9626

In director Budd Boetticher’s 1944 film noir mystery thriller The Missing Juror, the members of a murder trial jury who convicted an innocent victim are gradually being bumped off one by one. Jim Bannon plays […]

Apr, 10

Day of Anger [I Giorni dell’ira] **** (1967, Lee Van Cleef, Giuliano Gemma, Walter Rilla) – Classic Movie Review 9322

Director Tonino Valerii’s excellent spaghetti action Western Day of Anger [I Giorni dell’ira] (1967) stars Lee Van Cleef, Giuliano Gemma and Walter Rilla. Giuliano Gemma plays Scott Mary, garbage boy and toilet cleaner in the […]

Jan, 30

The Rescuers Down Under *** (1990, voices of Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor, John Candy) – Classic Movie Review 8184

The 1990 cartoon animated adventure The Rescuers Down Under is the enjoyable Disney sequel to their 1977 hit The Rescuers, with the cartoon mice Bernard and Miss Bianca (again voiced by Bob Newhart and Eva […]

Mar, 01

Cliffhanger *** (1993, Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, Michael Rooker) – Classic Movie Review 8112

Director Renny Harlin’s 1993 adventure thriller Cliffhanger is enjoyably preposterous action entertainment, with Sylvester Stallone as Gabe Walker, a mountain rescuer called in when a plane full of bad guys who have stolen cash from […]

Feb, 10

The Boy from Oklahoma *** (1954, Will Rogers Jr, Nancy Olson, Lon Chaney Jr, Anthony Caruso) – Classic Movie Review 7417

Director Michael Curtiz’s acceptable, simple-viewing 1954 comedy Western The Boy from Oklahoma stars Will Rogers Jr, who pleasantly takes over the easy-going, good-natured persona of his father as Tom Brewster, a correspondence-school law student who rides […]

Aug, 08

Swoon *** (1992, Daniel Schlachet, Craig Chester) – Classic Movie Review 1526

For his 1992 real-life thriller, writer director Tom Kalin revisits the scene of the crime in the Richard Loeb-Nathan Leopold Jr ‘murder-for-kicks’ case in 1923 Chicago. Kalin’s game plan is an in-your-face, explicitly gay version […]

Aug, 09

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