Derek Winnert

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Grand Prix **** (1966, James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand, Toshiro Mifune) – Classic Movie Review 6533

Director John Frankenheimer’s 1966 car race soap opera movie is extremely lively and good-looking, and meticulously crafted, ending up with three Oscars.  ‘Glamour! Speed! Spectacle!’ – yes that’s what we’ve got here. James Garner, Brian Bedford, […]

Jan, 07

Weekend ***** (1967, Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean-Pierre Kalfon) – Classic Movie Review 5990

The thrilling 1967 post-modern black comedy movie Weekend is an outstanding example of French surreal avant-garde cinema from the prime of writer-director Jean-Luc Godard, in which Mireille Darc and Jean Yanne play a Parisian married couple, […]

Aug, 28

Scribe [La mécanique de l’ombre] **** (2016, François Cluzet, Denis Podalydès, Sami Bouajila ) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Thomas Kruithof’s really good and exciting French Seventies-style 2016 paranoia thriller is intensely acted, grippingly done and stylishly filmed. François Cluzet stars as the depressed, alcoholic, recently unemployed Duval, who is contacted by […]

Jul, 21

Walking Tall ***½ (1973, Joe Don Baker, Elizabeth Hartman, Gene Evans, Noah Beery Jnr, Rosemary Murphy, Leif Garrett, Lurene Tuttle, Dawn Lyn) – Classic Movie Review 4708

Quintessential tough-guy Joe Don Baker gets one of his best roles and gives a sterling performance as real-life Southern sheriff Buford Pusser, who scarily carries a baseball bat and takes the law into his own […]

Nov, 27

Bleed for This *** (2016, Miles Teller, Aaron Eckhart, Ciarán Hinds, Katey Sagal, Ted Levine) – Movie Review

Three splendid performances from Miles Teller, Aaron Eckhart and Ciarán Hinds as a real-life boxer, his coach and his dad, are the making of this otherwise just par-for-the-course inspirational boxing drama. Slightly oddly cast Teller is first […]

Oct, 08

Stranger from Venus * (1954, Patricia Neal, Helmut Dantine, Derek Bond, Cyril Luckham) – Classic Movie Review 3755

Producer-director Burt Balaban’s amateurish independently made 1954 British black-and-white science fiction film about first contact with aliens stars a down-on-their-luck Patricia Neal and Helmut Dantine. Neal plays Susan North, an American woman who crashes her car […]

May, 26

Magnificent Obsession **** (1954, Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Barbara Rush) – Classic Movie Review 3435

Douglas Sirk’s magnificently melodramatic 1954 romantic film Magnificent Obsession finds the perfect stars in Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson and Agnes Moorehead. Cult director Douglas Sirk’s magnificently melodramatic 1954 American romantic drama film Magnificent Obsession finds […]

Mar, 01

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