Derek Winnert

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Border Incident ***½ (1949, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Howard Da Silva) – Classic Movie Review 5274

Director Anthony Mann’s 1949 film noir crime thriller lifts a mundane yarn about the law versus illegal Mexican immigrants by shooting it in a sharply realist fashion with John Alton’s noir-style black and white photography. […]

Apr, 10

CHIPS * (2017, Dax Shepard, Michael Peña, Jessica McNamee, Vincent D’Onofrio, Adam Brody, Ryan Hansen, Justin Chatwin, Kristen Bell) – Movie Review

Writer-director Dax Shepard’s cert 15, R-rated 2017 action comedy is a mindless, mirthless and mucky belated TV series movie spin-off. The likeable and hard-working star duo of Dax Shepard and Michael Peña, playing miss-matched cops, could be […]

Mar, 25

How to be Very, Very Popular ** (1955, Betty Grable, Sheree North, Charles Coburn, Robert Cummings, Orson Bean, Tommy Noonan, Fred Clark) – Classic Movie Review 5168

In her final film, aged 39, the Very, Very Popular Betty Grable bows out with writer-director Nunnally Johnson’s thin but amiable 1955 comedy, with only one song by Jules Styne and Sammy Cahn – the title […]

Mar, 16

It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World **** (1963, Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Ethel Merman, Jimmy Durante, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas, Peter Falk) – Classic Movie Review 5094

Producer-director Kramer delivers what it says on the tin – ‘a comedy to end all comedies’ – in a bright and breezy epic madcap cross-country chase farce that skilfully piles up daffy turns, funny gags […]

Mar, 03

The Majestic *** (2001, Jim Carrey, Martin Landau, Bob Balaban, Matt Damon, Jeffrey DeMunn, Hal Holbrook, Laurie Holden) – Classic Movie Review 4913

Director Frank Darabont’s honourable 2001 drama stars Jim Carrey as Peter Appleton, an ambitious movie screenwriter in early 1950s America, who falls victim to the communist witch-hunts. He crashes his car, loses his memory and […]

Jan, 21

American Graffiti **** (1973, Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul LeMat, Charles Martin Smith, Candy Clark, Cindy Williams) – Classic Movie Review 4,739

George Lucas’s incisive, nostalgia-fuelled 1973 hit comedy drama film American Graffiti is propelled by 40 superlative songs of the Sixties, and effortlessly captures the flavour of the era. In 1962, four small-town California high-school graduate […]

Dec, 02

Loophole ***½ (1954, Barry Sullivan, Dorothy Malone, Charles McGraw, Don Haggerty, Mary Beth Hughes, Don Beddoe) – Classic Movie Review 4467

Director Harold D Schuster’s 1953 little gem of a thriller stars Barry Sullivan as Mike Donovan, a bank worker who has to find the real robber after he is falsely accused of stealing $50,000 from his […]

Oct, 08

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