Derek Winnert

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Rio Lobo *** (1970, John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O’Neill, Victor French, Christopher Mitchum, Mike Henry, Jim Davis, Bill Williams, David Huddleston) – Classic Movie Review 3171

‘Give ‘Em Hell, John.’ Director Howard Hawks’s appealing, easy-going late-entry 1970 Western stars John Wayne as Colonel Cord McNally, the ageing Union officer who teams up with former Confederates in pursuit of a bootlegger, the traitor […]

Dec, 19

Stalag 17 ***** (1953, William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss, Harvey Lembeck, Richard Erdman, Peter Graves, Neville Brand, Sig Ruman) – Classic Movie Review 2531

Director Billy Wilder delivers a typically darkly comic adaptation of Donald Bevan’s and Edmund Trzcinski’s Broadway stage play about American airmen’s life in a POW camp in Germany in 1944 towards the end of World […]

May, 28

Spooks: The Greater Good **** (2015, Peter Firth, Kit Harington, Elyes Gabel, Jennifer Ehle, Tim McInnerny) – Movie Review

Peter Firth, who played British spy boss Harry Pearce for 86 TV episodes from 2002 to 2011 and appeared in all ten series of Spooks (aka MI-5), gets the rare honour of reviving the role […]

May, 01

Kingsman: The Secret Service **** (2014, Colin Firth, Michael Caine, Taron Egerton, Samuel L Jackson, Mark Hamill, Jack Davenport, Mark Strong) – Movie Review

Director Matthew Vaughn’s tongue-in-cheek post-modern spy thriller is based on Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons acclaimed comic book The Secret Service stars Colin Firth is a tailor-made role for him as impeccably suave veteran secret […]

Jan, 16

Mission: Impossible *** (1996, Tom Cruise, Jean Reno, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart, Ving Rhames, Vanessa Redgrave) – Classic Movie Review 1289

Director Brian De Palma’s flashy 1996 blockbuster is a really scrappy high-octane action spy thriller movie, but it does deliver a lot of flash and some exciting edge-of-seat action. Remotely based on the popular 60s […]

Jun, 04

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban **** (2004, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Michael Gambon, Gary Oldman) – Classic Movie Review 514

Michael Gambon has task of taking over from the late Richard Harris as the Hogwarts headmaster, Professor Albus Dumbledore, in the 2004 second sequel film, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.  The kids all […]

Dec, 13

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