Derek Winnert

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Boardwalk **** (Ruth Gordon, Lee Strasberg, Janet Leigh, Kim Delgado) – Classic Movie Review 8805

Director Stephen Verona’s 1979 drama Boardwalk stars Ruth Gordon and Lee Strasberg as a beleaguered old Jewish couple, Becky Rosen and her husband David, who fight back when they are under attack from Strut (Kim Delgado)’s […]

Aug, 08

Beware Spooks! *** (1939, Joe E Brown, Mary Carlisle, Clarence Kolb) – Classic Movie Review 7386

Director Edward Sedgwick’s pleasant 1939 Columbia Pictures 65-minute black and white comedy Beware Spooks! is a moderately well made, mildly amusing vehicle for Joe E Brown’s knockabout antics as jittery, bumbling cop Roy Gifford, who first […]

Aug, 02

Wonder Wheel **** (2017, Kate Winslet, Justin Timberlake, Jim Belushi, Juno Temple) – Movie Review

Writer-director Woody Allen’s 2017 Wonder Wheel is a dark, bleak masterwork, a late gem from the troubled film-maker, in the vein of his Blue Jasmine. I think I counted one attempt at joke in the entire […]

Mar, 11

The Shopworn Angel **** (1938, James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Walter Pidgeon, Hattie McDaniel, Sam Levene, Alan Curtis, Nat Pendleton) – Classic Movie Review 4579

The tearful 1938 wartime romantic drama film The Shopworn Angel is a tasty reworking of the old story, with the right cast in James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan to make it work.  Director H C […]

Nov, 03

Requiem for a Dream ***** (2000, Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly) – Classic Movie Review 67

For his 2000 follow-up to his hugely promising debut Pi (1998), director Darren Aronofsky comes up with an astonishing, uniquely haunting movie. It takes us to a dark and dangerous place. The author of the […]

Jul, 19

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