Derek Winnert

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Nightmare Alley **** (1947, Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker, Taylor Holmes, Mike Mazurki, Ian Keith) – Classic Movie Review 6128

Director Edmund Goulding’s haunting 1947 black and white film noir thriller Nightmare Alley is based on the novel by William Lindsay Gresham. It stars Tyrone Power as Stanton ‘Stan’ Carlisle, who becomes a carnival barker […]

Oct, 23

The Da Vinci Code *** (2006, Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Jean Reno, Ian McKellen, Jean Reno, Paul Bettany, Alfred Molina) – Classic Movie Review 4843

Tom Hanks recalled: ‘Oh, God, that was a commercial enterprise. The Da Vinci Code film (2006) was hooey. Yeah, those Robert Langdon sequels are hooey.’  Director Ron Howard’s 2006 mystery thriller The Da Vinci Code […]

Jan, 04

Inferno **½ (2016, Tom Hanks, Ben Foster, Felicity Jones, Irrfan Khan, Sidse Babett Knudsen) – Movie Review

After all his previous problems in The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons (2009), you’d think Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) would be enjoying some well deserved peace and quiet, especially after all those dead priests […]

Oct, 14

Arabesque ***½ (1966, Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel, Kieron Moore) – Classic Movie Review 2,912

Arabesque (1966) Stanley Donen’s 1966 film Arabesque tries to repeat the success of his Charade (1963) with another romantic pair (Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren) thrown into another escapist Hitchcock-style thriller plot, with spies, intrigue, double […]

Sep, 15

Mortdecai ** (2015, Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ewan McGregor, Paul Bettany, Olivia Munn, Jeff Goldblum) – Movie Review

‘Sophistication has a name’ is the dangerous claim in the tagline for this remarkably unsophisticated movie. Johnny Depp stars in director David Koepp’s caper comedy as roguish, debonair English art dealer Charlie Mortdecai, who has to […]

Jan, 22

Hue and Cry ***** (1947, Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Harry Fowler) – Classic Movie Review 1653

Director Charles Crichton’s 1947 Hue and Cry is notable and historically important as the first of the Ealing comedies, leading the way for Britain’s Ealing Studios classics of the late Forties and Fifties. But Crichton’s splendid comedy adventure […]

Sep, 08

Windtalkers *** (Nicolas Cage, Christian Slater, Adam Beach) – Classic Film Review 1218

US sergeants Nicolas Cage and Christian Slater are assigned to protect Navajo marines (Adam Beach, Roger Willie) using their native speech as an undecypherable radio code while fighting the Japanese in Saipan in 1943. Cage […]

May, 15

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