Derek Winnert

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Lawless Heart **** (2001, Douglas Henshall, Tom Hollander, Bill Nighy) – Classic Movie Review 7132

Three men take stock of their lives after the death of a gay restaurateur friend in writer-directors Tom Hunsiger and Neil Hunter’s 2001 British intersecting stories film Lawless Heart. The acclaimed, extremely well-acted and very carefully […]

Jun, 08 · in Reviews

Ride Him, Cowboy ** (1932, John Wayne, Ruth Hall, Otis Harlan, Henry B Walthall) – Classic Movie Review 7131

John Wayne’s first starring role in a B-Western is the first of six that he made for release by Warner Bros. A young, fresh-faced 25-year-old Wayne plays John Drury, who rescues Duke the white stallion, the […]

Jun, 08 · in Reviews

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom *** (2018, Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt, Ted Levine, Jeff Goldblum) – Movie Review

It plays like a video game, has very little story to speak of, two likeable stars battling blue screen to produce performances, some miscast British actors struggling, and an irritating little girl at the centre […]

Jun, 07

The Dawn Rider *** (1935, John Wayne, Marion Burns, Dennis Moore) – Classic Movie Review 7130

Writer-director Robert N Bradbury’s 1935 The Dawn Rider is another early John Wayne low-budget B-movie Western with a then lanky young John playing John Mason out for revenge when the bad guys kill his loving father […]

Jun, 07

Lawless Range *** (1935, John Wayne, Sheila Bromley, Frank McGlynn Jr) – Classic Movie Review 7129

John Wayne returns to playing a singing cowboy again in Lawless Range after his one shot as Singin’ Sandy in Riders of Destiny (1933) and he appears to sing in this one, though in fact of course […]

Jun, 07

Riders of Destiny *** (1933, John Wayne, Cecilia Parker, Forrest Taylor, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Al St John) – Classic Movie Review 7128

The 26-year-old John Wayne plays ‘Singin’ Sandy’ Saunders (but dubbed, with the singing voice courtesy of Smith Ballew), a singing undercover US Government agent who battles against stagecoach robbing villains, and in particular bad guy James […]

Jun, 07

Salome’s Last Dance *** (1988, Glenda Jackson, Stratford Johns, Nickolas Grace, Douglas Hodge, Imogen Millais-Scott) – Classic Movie Review 7127

‘NOTORIOUS, SCANDALOUS, WILDE!’ Writer-director Ken Russell takes a walk on the Wilde side and again challenges our good will and his actors’ stamina in his provocative and colourful, sometimes amusing and inventive, sometimes silly and […]

Jun, 06

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