Derek Winnert

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Tomorrow Never Comes ** (1978, Oliver Reed, Susan George, Raymond Burr, John Ireland, Donald Pleasence) – Classic Movie Review 7758

Director Peter Collinson’s well-cast but unambitious crime melodrama 1977 Tomorrow Never Comes is an unofficially reworked variant on the 1947 American thriller The Long Night, itself a remake of the 1939 Jean Gabin French classic […]

Nov, 05

The Long Night ** (1947, Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price, Ann Dvorak) – Classic Movie Review 7756

  Using the original screenplay by Jacques Viot as a basis, director Anatole Litvak remakes the 1939 Jean Gabin French classic Le Jour se Lève [Daybreak] to much lesser effect in his 1947 RKO black […]

Nov, 05

Tequila Sunrise **** (1988, Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell, Raul Julia, J T Walsh, Arliss Howard, Ayre Gross) – Classic Movie Review 7650

The intelligent and gripping 1988 romantic crime thriller Tequila Sunrise is written and directed by Robert Towne (who scripted Chinatown). It boasts a good Eighties cast, with three glossy and appealing stars: Mel Gibson as […]

Oct, 09

The Guilty [Den skyldige] **** (2018, Jakob Cedergren, voice of Jessica Dinnage, Omar Shargawi) – Movie Review 

Gustav Möller’s 2018 film The Guilty is a commendably tense and creepy Danish noir thriller, set in the single location of a police station’s emergency telephone call centre. Co-writer/ director Gustav Möller’s 2018 film The […]

Oct, 03

Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion [Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto] **** (1970, Gian Maria Volontè, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio) – Classic Movie Review 7622

Co-writer/ director Elio Petri’s admirable Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion [Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto] stars Gian Maria Volontè as a newly elevated police inspector in charge of murder […]

Sep, 27

Fatal Beauty ** (1987, Whoopi Goldberg, Sam Elliott, Rubén Blades) – Classic Movie Review 7616

Whoopi Goldberg stars as unconventional Beverly Hills cop Rita Rizzoli, who goes undercover to break a drugs ring and keep cocaine off the streets, in director Tom Holland’s efficiently made, violent 1987 formula comedy thriller […]

Sep, 23

Strike [Stachka] **** (1925, Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Maksim Shtraukh, Mikhail Gomorov) – Classic Movie Review 7471

After several years of working in experimental theatre, the great Russian director Sergei M Eisenstein made a dazzling cinema début with this forceful 1925 evocation of a strike by oppressed Russian factory workers in the pre-revolutionary […]

Aug, 19

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