Derek Winnert

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Boys Town **** (1938, Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull) – Classic Movie Review 5020

Director Norman Taurog’s quintessentially sincere 1938 double Oscar-winning biographical drama provides an excellent showcase for Spencer Tracy, who won his second Best Actor Oscar in consecutive years for his iconic performance in the role of […]

Feb, 12

Little Nikita *** (1988, Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, Richard Jenkins, Carolina Kava) – Classic Movie Review 4562

Director Richard Benjamin’s involving 1988 Cold War thriller stars Sidney Poitier and young River Phoenix as a sympathetic FBI man called Roy Parmenter and Jeff Grant, a teenage boy he helps out when it turns […]

Oct, 29

A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge *** (1985, Robert Englund, Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Rusler, Clu Gulager, Hope Lange, Marshall Bell, Sydney Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 4550

The gory 1985 horror thriller sequel A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge is a cult classic among both horror fans and the LGBTQ community. It is now celebrated as being one of […]

Oct, 28

Cahill US Marshal *** (1973, John Wayne, George Kennedy, Gary Grimes, Neville Brand, Clay O’Brien, Marie Windsor) – Classic Movie Review 4254

Gary Grimes’s mere six film credits include the 1973 American Technicolor Western film Cahill US Marshal, where he stars as Danny Cahill alongside John Wayne’s Marshal J D Cahill. American retired actor Gary Grimes’s mere six […]

Aug, 28

The Spikes Gang **** (1974, Lee Marvin, Gary Grimes, Ron Howard, Charles Martin Smith, Arthur Hunnicutt, Noah Beery Jr) – Classic Movie Review 4,255

In one of just six films he made between 1971’s Summer of ’42 and Gus in 1976, Gary Grimes stars with Lee Marvin in the rousing 1974 Western film The Spikes Gang. ‘Three boys wanted […]

Aug, 28

Say Anything… **** (1989, John Cusack, Ione Skye, John Mahoney) – Classic Movie Review 4016

Writer-director Cameron Crowe’s fresh and original 1989 teenage comedy drama stars John Cusack as Lloyd Dobler, a self-assured, underachieving loner teen who has set his eyes on a couple of prizes – kickboxing and the beautiful class […]

Jul, 14

Brighton Rock *** (2010, Sam Riley, John Hurt, Andrea Riseborough, Phil Davis, Andy Serkis, Helen Mirren) – Classic Movie Review 3972

Sam Riley, from Control (2007), is ideally cast as teenage gangster Pinkie Brown, a psychotic petty hoodlum at large in post-war Brighton, in director Rowan Joffe’s intriguing 2010 remake of the 1947 classic thriller Brighton Rock, […]

Jul, 04

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