Derek Winnert

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The Wild Angels *** (1966, Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra, Bruce Dern) – Classic Movie Review 3867

‘Their credo is violence…Their God is hate…and they call themselves The Wild Angels.’ Producer-director Roger Corman’s 1966 cheaply made ($360,000) biker gang movie, made with help from real California Hell’s Angels and the young Peter […]

Jun, 15

The Fall **** (2006, Lee Pace, Catinca Untaru, Justine Waddell) – Classic Movie Review 3829

Director Tarsem Singh’s astounding, wildly imaginative art movie stars Lee Pace as an injured stuntman in a 1920s Los Angeles hospital, who tells another patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a story about five […]

Jun, 09

Me Before You *** (2016, Emilia Clarke, Sam Claflin, Janet McTeer, Charles Dance) – Movie Review

The likeability factor is high in this appealing, old-fashioned rom-com weepie, with attractive performances. Emilia Clarke charms as Louisa, or just little Lou, a young English woman desperate for work, who ends up looking after […]

Jun, 02

No Way Out **** (1950, Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally, Harry Bellaver) – Classic Movie Review 3604

Co-writer/director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s 1950 pioneering hospital-bound race-issue film-noir melodrama No Way Out is commendably intense and powerful. Sidney Poitier stars as Dr Luther Brooks, a young black doctor whose white patient dies; a race […]

Apr, 23

Petulia *** (1968, Julie Christie, George C Scott, Richard Chamberlain, Shirley Knight, Pippa Scott) – Classic Movie Review 3,537

Richard Lester takes us back to the San Francisco-style kookie Swinging Sixties era, in the interesting but shaky 1968 romantic drama film Petulia. Julie Christie stars as the Arch Kook Petulia, a zany young British […]

Apr, 06

The Naked Kiss **** (1964, Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, Michael Dante) – Classic Movie Review 3490

Writer-director Samuel Fuller’ s extraordinary 1964 film noir crime drama movie stars Constance Towers, who gives a towering performance as the former hooker Kelly, who comes to look for redemption in the town of Grantville. Naturally, the […]

Mar, 21

In Love and War *** (1996, Sandra Bullock, Chris O’Donnell, Mackenzie Astin) – Classic Movie Review 3395

Chris O’Donnell is nice but lacks fire and steel as reporter-ambulance driver-author Ernest Hemingway, though Sandra Bullock fares better as feisty Agnes von Kurowsky, the nurse who looks after him after being wounded in World […]

Feb, 21

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