Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "sniper"

Check out all of the posts tagged with "sniper".

American Sniper ***** (2014, Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Kyle Gallner) – Movie Review

Director Clint Eastwood’s devastating anti-war movie is one of his best films, with several scalding, edge-of-seat, life-or-death sequences that will always haunt the mind. Bradley Cooper is great as real-life US Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, whose accuracy […]

Jan, 06

Dirty Harry ***** (1971, Clint Eastwood, Andrew Robinson, Harry Guardino, John Vernon, Reni Santoni, John Larch, John Mitchum) – Classic Movie Review 1,262

Don Siegel’s 1971 police thriller film Dirty Harry is arguably Clint Eastwood’s most famous movie, and certainly one of his best films. Lalo Schifrin contributes one of his finest scores. ‘I know what you’re thinking. […]

May, 27

Enemy at the Gates **** (2001, Jude Law, Ed Harris, Joseph Fiennes, Bob Hoskins, Rachel Weisz) – Classic Film Review 841

Director Jean-Jacques Annaud’s compelling 2001 film tells the persistently small-scale, intimate wartime story of a Russian sniper Vassili (Jude Law) and a German marksman major Konig (Ed Harris) playing a lethal game of cat and […]

Feb, 18

The Expendables *** (2010, Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke) – Classic Movie Review 804

‘We are the shadows and the smoke, we rise. We are the ghosts that hide in the night.’ – Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone). Mercenaries Sylvester Stallone (aged 64), Jason Statham (38) and Jet Li (47) […]

Feb, 05

Phone Booth – Classic Film Review 655

Colin Farrell stars as slick and cocky New York PR guy Stu Shepard , who is trapped in a phone booth by a sniper (Kiefer Sutherland), threatening – on the phone – to shoot him unless […]

Jan, 08

Jack Reacher *** (2012, Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Jai Courtney, Richard Jenkins) – Movie Review

An expert sniper (Aussie rising star Jai Courtney) coolly kills five random people, and makes off leaving a lot of clues that lead to the arrest of an innocent man (Joseph Sikora), who, from his […]

Jun, 17

Navigation

Please use the navigation to move within this section.