Derek Winnert

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Suspiria ** (2018, Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Grace Moretz, Angela Winkler, Mia Goth) – Movie Review

You’ve got to hand it to Luca Guadagnino. He’s gone from one of the best movies at the 2107 London Film Festival – Call Me by Your Name – to one of the worst in […]

Oct, 16

Destroyer ** (2018, Nicole Kidman, Toby Kebbell, Tatiana Maslany, Jade Pettyjohn, Sebastian Stan, Scoot McNairy, Bradley Whitford) – Movie Review

Nicole Kidman stars in Destroyer (2018) as burnt-out LAPD detective Erin Bell, who turns up at the scene of a murder, and then reconnects with members of a California desert gang from her tragic undercover […]

Oct, 15

Stick ** (1985, Burt Reynolds, Candice Bergen, George Segal, Charles Durning) – Classic Movie Review 7568

An Elmore Leonard novel about an ex-convict sucked into Florida’s drugs underworld is patchily transferred to the screen as a rickety crime action thriller vehicle for the always likeable Burt Reynolds, both as actor and […]

Sep, 13

The Man Who Loved Women ** (1983, Burt Reynolds, Julie Andrews, Kim Basinger, Sela Ward, Marilu Henner, Cynthia Sikes, Jennifer Edwards) – Classic Movie Review 7567

In 1983 it seemed almost inevitable that the project of Americanising François Truffaut’s 1977 French romantic comedy L’Homme Qui Aimait Les Femmes (The Man Who Loved Women) would fall to director Blake Edwards and that he […]

Sep, 13

Topper Takes a Trip **** (1938, Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray) – Classic Movie Review 7204

Roland Young returns for director Norman Z McLeod’s polished and highly amusing 1938 Topper Takes a Trip, the sequel to the 1937 supernatural fantasy comedy Topper, as haunted banker Cosmo P Topper, who goes to […]

Jun, 21

Topper Returns **** (1941, Joan Blondell, Roland Young, Carole Landis, Billie Burke) – Classic Movie Review 7203

Director Roy Del Ruth’s 1941 black and white fantasy comedy film Topper Returns, based on the characters created by Thorne Smith, is the third and final entry in the series of films that began with the […]

Jun, 21

Angel and the Badman *** (1947, John Wayne, Gail Russell, Harry Carey Sr, Bruce Cabot, Irene Rich, Tom Powers, Lee Dixon) – Classic Movie Review 7168

Writer-director James Edward Grant’s Angel and the Badman (1947) is a good, solid John Wayne Western in which the Badman – wounded gunslinger Quirt Evans (Wayne) – is nursed back to health and a good […]

Jun, 15

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