Derek Winnert

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Fear X *** (2003, John Turturro, Deborah Kara Unger, James Remar, Stephen Eric McIntyre) – Classic Movie Review 9408

Director Nicolas Winding Refn’s 2003 surreal neo noir thriller Fear X stars John Turturro, Deborah Kara Unger and James Remar. Refn co-writes the screenplay with Hubert Selby Jr, who wrote the books of Last Exit […]

Feb, 22

Operation Bikini * (1963, Tab Hunter, Frankie Avalon, Scott Brady) – Classic Movie Review 9380

‘TEMPTATION in PARADISE… Neither hell nor high heels could stop them!’ Debut director Anthony Carras’s 1963 World War Two war film Operation Bikini [The Seafighter] stars Tab Hunter, Frankie Avalon and Scott Brady, and is […]

Feb, 14

Trade Winds *** (1938, Fredric March, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy, Thomas Mitchell, Ann Sothern) – Classic Movie Review 9253

Director Tay Garnett’s 1938 comedy murder mystery Trade Winds stars Fredric March as hard-bitten former detective investigator Sam Wye, who is sent to head off to the Orient by Police Commissioner Blackton (Thomas Mitchell) to […]

Jan, 11

The House Across the Lake [Heat Wave] *** (1954, Alex Nicol, Hillary Brooke, Sidney James) – Classic Movie Review 9193

Writer-director Ken Hughes’s 1954 British Hammer Films black and white film noir triangle suspense crime drama The House Across the Lake [Heat Wave] is filmed and set in England, and stars Alex Nicol and Hillary […]

Dec, 27

The Irishman ***** (2019, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci) – Movie Review

Director Martin Scorsese is on fire for his 2019 mob crime thriller The Irishman – and so is his screen-writer Steven Zaillian, carving out a really brilliant, scintillating screenplay from Charles Brandt’s book. Even so, […]

Dec, 20

The October Man *** (1947, John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Edward Chapman) – Classic Movie Review 9147

Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1947 British noir crime drama The October Man is an acceptably delivered, very watchable British murder mystery, with a good role for John Mills as Jim Ackland, a brain-damaged amnesiac, afflicted […]

Dec, 11

Nobody Runs Forever [The High Commissioner] * (1968, Rod Taylor, Christopher Plummer, Lilli Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 9129

Director Ralph Thomas’s 1968 Nobody Runs Forever [The High Commissioner] stars Rod Taylor as Australian police detective Sergeant Scobie Malone, who is sent to London to investigate the dodgy death of the first wife of […]

Dec, 05

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