Derek Winnert

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Search Party ** (2014, T J Miller, Adam Pally, Thomas Middleditch, Alison Brie, Krysten Ritter) – Movie Review

Search Party is welcome as a raucous, laddish Hangover/Road Trip-style comedy. But it is not a very good one, though, to be fair, it’s not terrible either. The three main actors try very hard to raise […]

May, 26

Viva Zapata! **** (1952, Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 2382

Buried under a big moustache and a big hat, Marlon Brando may be very oddly, indeed uncomfortably, cast as the Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata in director Elia Kazan’s 1952 historical drama biopic. But nevertheless Brando […]

Apr, 12

The Big Steal **** (1949, Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix, Patric Knowles, Ramon Novarro) – Classic Movie Review 2170

After 1947’s Out of the Past, Robert Mitchum partners entrancing femme fatale Jane Greer again in director Don Siegel’s commendably taut, fast-paced 1949 film noir thriller The Big Steal. Mitchum plays an army lieutenant called […]

Feb, 12

Against All Odds **** (1984, Jeff Bridges, James Woods, Rachel Ward) – Classic Movie Review 2045

Director Taylor Hackford delivers a satisfyingly twisty, fascinating 1984 neo noir remake of the classic 1947 Robert Mitchum-Jane Greer-Kirk Douglas film noir thriller Out of the Past. This time, in Against All Odds, Jeff Bridges stars […]

Jan, 04

The Long Goodbye **** (1973, Elliott Gould, Sterling Hayden, Nina Van Pallandt) – Classic Movie Review 1881

Director Robert Altman’s 1973 neo-noir film of Raymond Chandler’s 1953 novel is expectedly updated to the Seventies but unexpectedly stars a laconic Elliott Gould as the hardboiled but chivalrous and honourable private eye Philip Marlowe, […]

Nov, 24

The Mexican ** (2001, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, James Gandolfini) – Classic Movie Review 1783

Director Gore Verbinski’s intriguing but all too moderate 2001 thriller stars Brad Pitt as hapless, clumsy small-time crook Jerry Welbach, who is forced by his mob boss to retrieve a priceless pistol called The Mexican back […]

Oct, 26

One-Eyed Jacks ***** (1961, Marlon Brando, Karl Malden) – Classic Movie Review 1678

Director/star Marlon Brando’s legendary 1961 revenge Western is an explosive emotional and visual powderkeg, with a great flavour of the Old West. It was a troubled production but that doesn’t show on screen. Brando took […]

Sep, 15

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