Derek Winnert

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The Florida Project ** (2017, Willem Dafoe, Brooklynn Prince, Bria Vinaite) – Movie Review

Willem Dafoe gives a knockout performance as the anxiety-ridden manager of a down-at-heel Florida motel in the environs of Disney World. Layered, textured and fascinating, it is certainly one of the best performances this always interesting […]

Nov, 11

Ride in the Whirlwind *** (1966, Jack Nicholson, Cameron Mitchell, Millie Perkins) – Classic Movie Review 6211

The enigmatic 1966 existential Western film Ride in the Whirlwind reunites screen-writer / star Jack Nicholson and director Monte Hellman, the duo responsible for The Shooting. Nicholson, Cameron Mitchell and Tom Filer play Wes, Vern […]

Nov, 08

Dr Crippen *** (1963, Donald Pleasence, Samantha Eggar, Coral Browne, Donald Wolfit) – Classic Movie Review 5917

‘The crime of the century! Was he really guilty?’ Director Robert Lynn’s 1962 British horror thriller finds Donald Pleasence is ideally cast as Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen, the mild English Edwardian doctor who killed his […]

Aug, 14

A Close Shave **** (1995, voices of Peter Sallis, Anne Reid) – Classic Movie Review 5562

Co-writer/ director Nick Park’s 30-minute Aardman 1995 Wallace and Gromit cartoon adventure – this time involving window-cleaners and sheep-sealers – is constantly inventive and hilarious. It won its maker Nick Park his third Oscar for […]

Jun, 08

Three Men to Kill [Trois Hommes à Abattre] *** (1980, Alain Delon, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Michel Auclair, Pierre Dux) – Classic Movie Review 5554

Alain Delon stars as a laconic professional gambler, who is relentlessly tracked down by hitmen, in the exciting 1980 French crime thriller Three Men to Kill [Trois Hommes à Abattre]. Working with director Jacques Deray […]

Jun, 05

Sherlock Jr ***** (1924, Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton) – Classic Movie Review 5106

Director and star Buster Keaton’s 1924 film is an unassailable silent comedy classic from one of the greatest comedians of any era. The Great Stone Face plays a projectionist who dreams of detective success to […]

Mar, 05

Boomerang! ***** (1947, Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J Cobb, Karl Malden, Arthur Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 4831

Director Elia Kazan’s stupendous 1947 real-life American crime film noir thriller Boomerang! tells the riveting, realistic true tale of a State’s Attorney (Dana Andrews) who sets out to discover the truth after he decides he […]

Dec, 31

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