Derek Winnert

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The Spy with My Face *** (1965, Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Senta Berger, Leo G Carro ll, Sharon Farrell) – Classic Movie Review 4,742

A suitably incredible plot has spy chief Mr Waverly (Leo G Carroll) sending Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuyakin (David McCallum) to Switzerland to battle THRUSH enemy agents, in the second Man from U.N.C.L.E. […]

Dec, 03

Free Fire **½ (2016, Sharlto Copley, Armie Hammer, Sam Riley, Brie Larson, Jack Reynor, Cillian Murphy, Enzo Cilenti, Michael Smiley, Noah Taylor) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Ben Wheatley’s 2016 black comedy action movie is an often funny but disreputable and not very fresh feeling Tarantino-style crime thriller, with a script (by Wheatley and Amy Jump) that looks like they were making […]

Oct, 16

The Killer Is Loose ***½ (1956, Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey) – Classic Movie Review 3,368

‘The Story of a Cop Who Used His Wife as Bait for a Killer!’ Budd Boetticher’s underrated 1956 hide-and-seek film noir crime thriller The Killer Is Loose stars Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming and Wendell Corey […]

Feb, 16

The Shootist ***** (1976, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, James Stewart, Richard Boone, Hugh O’Brian) – Classic Movie Review 2578

Director Don Siegel’s superb, haunting 1976 character-driven Western stars John Wayne in his final role as aging gunfighter John Book, who is struck down not by a baddy’s bullet but by terminal cancer, as Wayne was […]

Jun, 10

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

Predestination **** (2014, Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Noah Taylor) – Movie Review

Ethan Hawke stars as a time-travelling ‘temporal agent’ masquerading as a barman, who, as his final assignment, must pursue the one criminal who has eluded him throughout time. He is sent back in time to 1975 […]

Feb, 26

I Walk Alone **** (1948, Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas, Wendell Corey) – Classic Movie Review 2158

Lizabeth Scott relishes another of her key roles as torch singer Kay Lawrence, sandwiched between two Hollywood greats – Burt Lancaster as tough guy Frankie Madison who returns to New York after 14 years in […]

Feb, 07

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