Derek Winnert

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Mutiny on the Buses * (1972, Reg Varney, Doris Hare, Anna Karen, Michael Robbins, Bob Grant, Stephen Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 6878

Director Harry Booth’s saucy slice-of-life 1972 British comedy is the middle film in the 1969 to 1973 ITV show film spinoff series, following 1971’s On the Buses. It tries its best, and there are a few […]

Apr, 03

Passport to Suez ** (1943, Warren William, Ann Savage, Eric Blore, Gavin Muir, Robert Stanford, Sheldon Leonard, Lloyd Bridges) – Classic Movie Review 6841

Director André De Toth’s 1943 thriller is a very passable, more than decently done Lone Wolf series entry, with Warren William back one more time in the last of his nine films as the jewel […]

Mar, 22

2010 [2010: The Year We Made Contact] **** (1984, Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren) – Classic Movie Review 6797

Writer/ producer/ cinematographer/ director Peter Hyams’s entertaining, undervalued sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) was expertly delivered by the film-maker to an underwhelmed public. A beautifully crafted movie, it was nominated for five Oscars – Best […]

Mar, 13

Monster Hunt 2 [Zhuo yao ji 2] ** (2018, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Baihe Bai, Boran Jing) – Movie Review

Director Raman Hui’s fantasy movie sequel is good natured enough and fun up to a point, with game performances and a good, costly looking production, with lovely and lavish art direction. But Monster Hunt 2 is […]

Feb, 24

Maze Runner: The Death Cure *** (2018, Dylan O’Brien, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Will Poulter, Ki Hong Lee, Katherine McNamara, Rosa Salazar) – Movie Review

In the epic finale to The Maze Runner saga, Dylan O’Brien returns as young hero Thomas, who leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final mission to break into the WCKD controlled last city […]

Jan, 23

Cannonball Run II * (1984, Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Sammy Davis Jr, Dean Martin, Jamie Farr, Marilu Henner, Telly Savalas, Shirley MacLaine, Frank Sinatra) – Classic Movie Review 6582

There is little action and there are even fewer laughs in director Hal Needham’s 1984 action comedy sequel, and the big-star guest spots hardly help. Admittedly, though, it might just be worth a look for […]

Jan, 19

Dick Barton Strikes Back *** (1949, Don Stannard, Bruce Walker, Sebastian Cabot) – Classic Movie Review 6578

Hammer’s 1949 British thriller film Dick Barton Strikes Back is the middle episode of the Dick Barton trilogy. Don Stannard is back as Special Agent Dick Barton fighting spies out to send atomic rays from […]

Jan, 19

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