Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Spider-Man: No Way Home ** (2021, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Andrew Garfield, Tobey Maguire, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jon Favreau, Jamie Foxx, Willem Dafoe, Alfred Molina, Marisa Tomei) – Classic Movie Review 12,896

The 2021 superhero film Spider-Man: No Way Home is good natured enough, but relies too much on the easy-going appeal of Tom Holland as Peter Parker and its gimmick of featuring Andrew Garfield and Tobey […]

May, 27 · in Reviews

Loggerheads **** (2005, Bonnie Hunt, Tess Harper, Michael Kelly, Chris Sarandon, Kip Pardue, Michael Learned) – Classic Movie Review 12,895

Tim Kirkman’s 2005 film Loggerheads is a haunting, beguiling labour of love. Bonnie Hunt, Tess Harper, Michael Kelly and Kip Pardue star in three overlapping stories of estranged families in three areas of North Carolina. […]

May, 26 · in Reviews

The Hangover: Part II ** (2011, Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Ken Jeong, Jeffrey Tambor, Justin Bartha, Paul Giamatti) – Classic Movie Review 12,894

The same-again 2011 American comedy film sequel The Hangover: Part II brings back the original cast and is set in Thailand two years after the first film. The same-again 2011 American comedy film sequel The […]

May, 25

City of Bad Men *** (1953, Dale Robertson, Jeanne Crain, Richard Boone, Lloyd Bridges) – Classic Movie Review 12,893

20th Century Fox’s lively and fresh-feeling 1953 Technicolor Western film City of Bad Men stars Dale Robertson, Jeanne Crain, Richard Boone and Lloyd Bridges. It has quality and originality written all over it in an […]

May, 22

Women from Headquarters ** (1950, Virginia Huston, Barbra Fuller, Robert Rockwell, Frances Charles) – Classic Movie Review 12,892

Virginia Huston, Barbra Fuller and Robert Rockwell star in the short and pacy 1950 crime film noir Women from Headquarters, in which a female ex-Army nurse re-trains as police officer with the LAPD. Virginia Huston, […]

May, 22

The Red Menace [The Enemy Within] [Underground Spy] * (1949, Robert Rockwell, Hanne Axman, Betty Lou Gerson, Barbra Fuller, Shepard Menken) – Classic Movie Review 12,891

Republic Pictures’ virulently anti-Communist 1949 film noir thriller The Red Menace [The Enemy Within] stars Robert Rockwell, Hanne Axman, Betty Lou Gerson and Barbra Fuller. It is a scarily strident propaganda piece. ‘Wanted… by every […]

May, 21

Up Jumped a Swagman ** (1965, Frank Ifield, Annette Andre, Ronald Radd, Suzy Kendall) – Classic Movie Review 12,890

Country music and yodelling singer/ guitarist Frank Ifield stars as Dave Kelly, and his then new wife Gillian Bowden appears as a dancer, in the 1965 British musical comedy film Up Jumped a Swagman, directed […]

May, 20

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