Derek Winnert

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For a Cop’s Hide [Pour La Peau d’un Flic] ** (1981, Alain Delon, Anne Parillaud, Michel Auclair, Daniel Ceccaldi, Jean-Pierre Darras, Mireille Darc) – Classic Movie Review 5555

Alain Delon himself co-writes and directs the popular 1981 French crime-thriller For a Cop’s Hide [Pour La Peau d’un Flic], which goes well for while, with plenty of intrigue, but starts to unravel way before […]

Jun, 05

Jungle Captive * (1945, Otto Kruger, Phil Brown, Rondo Hatton, Vicky Lane, Jerome Cowan, Amelita Ward, Eddie Acuff) – Classic Movie Review 5240

Director Harold Young’s very cheap, risibly awful 1945 sequel to Captive Wild Woman (1943) and Jungle Woman (1944) has almost nothing to recommend it beyond some noble efforts by the actors against the odds and its […]

Apr, 02

Pool of London ***½ (1951, Earl Cameron, Bonar Colleano, Susan Shaw, Renée Asherson, Moira Lister, Max Adrian, Joan Dowling, James Robertson Justice) – Classic Movie Review 4399

Director Basil Dearden’s vintage 1951 British black and white crime thriller Pool of London stars Earl Cameron as Johnny Lambert, a basically honest Jamaican seaman who gets up to his ears in his thieving American […]

Sep, 23

Pink Cadillac *** (1989, Clint Eastwood, Bernadette Peters, Timothy Carhart, Geoffrey Lewis, William Hickey) – Classic Movie Review 4096

Director Buddy Van Horn’s engaging laid-back 1989 adventure comedy stars Clint Eastwood as Tommy Nowak, a wrinkly California bounty hunting bail-bondsman (or ‘skip-tracer’) who goes out of his way to befriend his current victim Roy McGuinn […]

Jul, 28

Annie *** (2014, Jamie Foxx, Quvenzhané Wallis, Cameron Diaz, Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale) – Movie Review

At the age of nine, Quvenzhané Wallis became the youngest Oscar nominee for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012). Now a veteran of 11, the Louisiana little lady gets her […]

Dec, 18

Carry On Cabby *** (1963, Sidney James, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Connor, Liz Fraser, Charles Hawtrey, Jim Dale, Esma Cannon) – Classic Movie Review 1907

  Director Gerald Thomas’s 1963 comedy Carry On Cabby was planned as a non-Carry On film called Call Me a Cab, which in fact is neatly the film’s last line spoken by Sidney James as Charlie Hawkins, […]

Dec, 01

Gloria *** (1999, Sharon Stone, Jeremy Northam, George C Scott, Jean-Luke Figueroa, Cathy Moriarty, Bonnie Bedelia, Mike Starr) – Classic Film Review 1,202

Sharon Stone is a powerful and attractive star presence as a gangster’s moll on the run, in Sidney Lumet’s rickety 1999 Mob thriller remake Gloria. Director Sidney Lumet’s efficient and tolerable 1999 remake of John […]

May, 17

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