Derek Winnert

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The Moonraker ***½ (1958, George Baker, Sylvia Syms, Marius Goring, Gary Raymond, Peter Arne, John Le Mesurier) – Classic Movie Review 3428

Roll up, roll up for director David MacDonald’s British Technicolor action drama The Moonraker (1958), some tasty Fifties-style high adventure and low intrigue in 17th-century merry England, set in October 1651 after the Battle of […]

Feb, 29

The Defiant Ones ****½ (1958, Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 3424

Producer-director Stanley Kramer’s classic liberal 1958 film is a simple, moral tale that works well thanks to the strong writing, the classy photography, the all-round excellent performances, the exciting chase sequences, the crafted production and […]

Feb, 28

Bone Tomahawk **** (2015, Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, Richard Jenkins) – Movie Review

Writer-director S Craig Zahler’s 2015 epic Western is a brilliant bone-cruncher. It’s a bone-a-fide gun-slinging cult hit. When there’s trouble in a Wild West town, the grizzled sheriff (Kurt Russell), his ancient back-up deputy (Richard Jenkins) and […]

Feb, 18

The Killer Is Loose ***½ (1956, Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey) – Classic Movie Review 3,368

‘The Story of a Cop Who Used His Wife as Bait for a Killer!’ Budd Boetticher’s underrated 1956 hide-and-seek film noir crime thriller The Killer Is Loose stars Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming and Wendell Corey […]

Feb, 16

We’re No Angels **** (1989, Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, James Russo, Ray McAnally, Demi Moore) – Classic Movie Review 3361

Talented Irish director Neil Jordan’s 1989 feature is his first American movie, a remake of director Michael Curtiz’s 1954 movie with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray Joan Bennett and Basil Rathbone. Robert De Niro and Sean Penn play small-time hoods in […]

Feb, 15

Toy Story 3 ***** (2010, voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Ned Beatty, Michael Keaton, John Morris) – Classic Move Review 3290

My how time flies! It is 2010 and 11 years since Toy Story 2 (1999). John Morris, the boy who voiced Andy back then, is now 25, and in the film the kid is now […]

Jan, 24

Captain Blood ***** (1935, Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill, Guy Kibbee) – Classic Movie Review 3282

Director Michael Curtiz’s vintage 1935 American black-and-white swashbuckler pirate film Captain Blood from Warner Bros is a great bona fide adventure classic and turned the young Errol Flynn into a superstar. It also established the […]

Jan, 18

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