Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Assault on a Queen * (1966, Frank Sinatra, Virna Lisi, Anthony Franciosa) – Classic Movie Review 7076

Virna Lisi and Alf Kjellin star as Eurocrooks Rosa Lucchesi and Eric Lauffnauer, who employ Mark Brittain (Frank Sinatra) to lead a band of treasure hunting conmen to reuse a recovered refloated old wartime German submarine to […]

May, 21 · in Reviews

None But the Brave *** (1965, Frank Sinatra, Clint Walker, Tommy Sands, Tony Bill, Brad Dexter, Tatsuya Mihashi) – Classic Movie Review 7075

Frank Sinatra directs himself for the first time in this quality 1965 World War Two war drama about a platoon of US Marines who crash-land on a tiny far-off island in the Pacific, where they […]

May, 21 · in Reviews

The Naked Runner ** (1967, Frank Sinatra, Peter Vaughan, Derren Nesbitt) – Classic Movie Review 7074

Director Sidney J Furie’s run-of-the-mill British 1967 Cold War spy thriller The Naked Runner, based on the novel by Francis Clifford, is often preposterous but thankfully livened up considerably with flashy Sixties visuals so at […]

May, 21

Revenge **** (2017, Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe) – Movie Review

Coralie Fargeat’s full-on feminist French thriller Revenge (2017) is stonkingly intense, exciting and brilliantly shot (by Robrecht Heyvaert), with an interesting, playfully post-modern take on the war between men and women. There is more flesh […]

May, 20

Back to School * (1986, Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 7073

Director Alan Metter’s unpleasing 1986 comedy is a shoddy, obvious and unfunny vehicle for an unappealing star in Rodney Dangerfield, who plays Thornton Melon, an uncouth middle-aged millionaire signing up as a college freshman to […]

May, 20

A Walk in the Clouds **** (1995, Keanu Reeves, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Giancarlo Giannini, Anthony Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 7072

Director Alfonso Arau’s delicious and delightful 1995 full-on romantic drama A Walk in the Clouds stars Keanu Reeves, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Giancarlo Giannini and Anthony Quinn. It tells a sweet story with charm to spare, is compellingly acted, and nicely directed […]

May, 20

The Last Time I Committed Suicide *** (1997, Thomas Jane, Keanu Reeves, Adrien Brody, John Doe, Claire Forlani, Marg Helgenberger, Lucinda Jenney, Gretchen Moll) – Classic Movie Review 7071

Thomas Jane stars as the doomed and tormented real-life Neal Cassady, living the beat life during the 1940s, in writer-director Stephen T Kay’s taut and compelling little 1997 biographical drama, based on Cassady’s own life […]

May, 19

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