Derek Winnert

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Chopper *** (2000, Eric Bana, Simon Lyndon, David Field) – Classic Movie Review 11,659

‘I never killed anyone who didn’t deserve it.’ Writer-director Andrew Dominik’s 2000 Australian biographical crime film Chopper is a sensationalist, extreme, fact-based Australia-set drama charting the rise to infamy and time in prison of notorious […]

Oct, 18

Stormy Monday **** (1988, Melanie Griffith, Tommy Lee Jones, Sting) – Classic Movie Review 11,346

Stormy Monday (1988): ‘The Most Dangerous Choices Are Made With The Heart’. Writer-director Mike Figgis’s 1989 British neo noir movie Stormy Monday is an exciting and moodily atmospheric crime thriller set in a rain-swept, neon-lit […]

Jun, 26

Cooley High *** (1975, Glynn Turman, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Garrett Morris, Cynthia Davis) – Classic Movie Review 11,197

‘Where the Student Body Was a Chick Named Veronica… The Senior Prom was a “belly rub” and the Class of ’64 ran a permanent crap game in the Men’s Room!’ Director Michael Schultz’s funny and […]

May, 12

The Lady Craved Excitement ** (1950, Hy Hazell, Michael Medwin, Sidney James, Thelma Grigg, Andrew Keir, Danny Green) – Classic Movie Review 11,036

Director Francis Searle’s 1950 British low-budget black and white Hammer Films production The Lady Craved Excitement is a fairly ordinary, though not too dull Fifties British B-movie comedy mystery thriller, in which the irrepressibly bubbly, […]

Mar, 22

Tropic Zone * (1953, Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming, Noah Beery Jr, Estelita Rodriguez, Grant Withers, John Wengraf) – Classic Movie Review 10,548

Rhonda Fleming is reunited with Ronald Reagan for Tropic Zone (1953) at Pine-Thomas Productions for release by Paramount. Writer-director Lewis R Foster’s 1953 Tropic Zone is a weak, forgettable adventure with simian-jawed, expatriate freedom-fighter hero […]

Nov, 16

Harry in Your Pocket *** (1973, James Coburn, Michael Sarrazin, Trish Van Devere, Walter Pidgeon) – Classic Movie Review 10,200

Director Bruce Geller’s 1973 pickpocket comedy crime drama Harry in Your Pocket is a cute, nifty and pleasing caper comedy, very much of its period, with Michael Sarrazin, James Coburn and Walter Pidgeon as three generations […]

Aug, 19

The Big Noise *** (1944, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Doris Merrick, Arthur Space, Jack Norton, Veda Ann Borg) – Classic Movie Review 10,122

Director Malcolm St Clair’s 1944 comedy The Big Noise is a still smile-worthy if relatively feeble, padded-out late-period movie from Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, in which the Boys are detective agency janitors who pretend […]

Aug, 02

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