Derek Winnert

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Dead Ringer **** (1964, Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford, Philip Carey) – Classic Movie Review 2163

Director Paul Henreid casts his friend and sometime co-star Bette Davis, who hugely enjoys her lip-smacking double role as Margaret DeLorca and Edith Phillips, in the deliriously entertaining 1964 pot-boiling thriller Dead Ringer. After her […]

Feb, 10

Hour of the Gun **** (1967, James Garner, Jason Robards, Robert Ryan) – Classic Movie Review 2082

Director John Sturges revisits the same material as his 1957 classic Western Gunfight at the OK Corral when he directs this more historically accurate, but comparatively little known 1967 sequel of sorts. This first-rate movie boasts outstanding performances […]

Jan, 17

My Darling Clementine ***** (1946, Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature) – Classic Movie Review 2081

Director John Ford’s splendid 1946 back and white Western tells a fanciful version of the tale of the Gunfight at the OK Corral. Career-best portrayals by Henry Fonda as a thin-lipped, tough, resolute lawman Wyatt […]

Jan, 17

Taken 3 *** (2014, Liam Neeson, Forest Whitaker, Maggie Grace) – Movie Review

Liam Neeson returns for a third and supposedly final time as ex-government operative Bryan Mills, who starts things off again in Los Angeles a couple of years after the events of part 2 in Istanbul […]

Jan, 06

Frankenstein *½ (1994, Kenneth Branagh, Robert De Niro, Helena Bonham Carter, Richard Briers, John Cleese) – Classic Movie Review 2034

Kenneth Branagh comes a cropper as both actor and director of this plush band ambitious but stodgy and unconvincing 1994 version of Mary Shelley’s classic horror tale that just seems to be going through the […]

Jan, 02

Theatre of Blood **** (1973, Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Diana Dors) – Classic Movie Review 1936

Director Douglas Hickox’s engagingly outrageous 1973 British horror farce movie Theatre of Blood provides an ideal showcase for Vincent Price, whose talent for succulent over-acting is lavishly displayed when he plays crazed thespian Edward Lionheart, […]

Dec, 08

Penguins of Madagascar *** (2014, voices of John Malkovich and Benedict Cumberbatch) – Movie Review

In this daft, frantic and amusing penguins spinoff from the DreamWorks Madagascar animation franchise, Skipper, Kowalski, Private and Rico get involved in a global espionage plot. The form a SWAT team of penguins who join forces […]

Dec, 05

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