Derek Winnert

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The First Purge (2018, Y’lan Noel, Lex Scott Davis, Joivan Wade, Mugga, Patch Darragh, Marisa Tomei) – Movie Review

The fourth in the franchise started by The Purge back in 2013 is a nasty, unpleasant and revolting exploiter peddling strong disturbing violence and a wrong-headed near-future alternate reality, where the rich folks in power in […]

Jul, 07

The Cobweb *** (1955, Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall, Charles Boyer, Lillian Gish, Gloria Grahame, John Kerr, Susan Strasberg, Oscar Levant, Tommy Rettig, Paul Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 6310

Director Vincente Minnelli’s 1955 high-class soap opera from clever people who should have known better is campy and amusingly overheated. The Cobweb is set in an exclusive psychiatric clinic, where the patients clash with the […]

Nov, 25

Untamed Youth **½ (1957, Mamie Van Doren, Lori Nelson, Lurene Tuttle, John Russell, Don Burnett) – Classic Movie Review 4863

Director Howard W Koch’s 1957 rock ‘n’ roll, juvenile delinquency, youth drama exploitation movie, written by John C. Higgins and Stephen Longstreet, stars Mamie Van Doren and Lori Nelson as American starstruck sisters Penny and Jane Lowe. Alas, […]

Jan, 08

Richard III **** (1995, Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Maggie Smith, Robert Downey Jr, Nigel Hawthorne) – Classic Movie Review 3645

Director Richard Loncraine’s 1995 Shakespeare movie gives Ian McKellen a showcase where he dazzlingly re-creates his stage performance as the mad English monarch Richard III, fired by vaulting ambition, hate and revenge on humankind for […]

May, 02

Timbuktu **** (2014, Ibrahim Ahmed, Abel Jafri, Toulou Kiki) – Movie Review

Director Abderrahmane Sissako’s Timbuktu is important, worthy, really well made, and visually extremely striking. But it’s a deeply depressing and disturbing story, and quite difficult to take and hard going. Its very considerable worth was noted […]

May, 28

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