Derek Winnert

Reviews

Silk Road **½ (2021, Jason Clarke, Nick Robinson, Katie Aselton, Jimmi Simpson, Daniel David Stewart, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Lexi Rabe, Will Ropp, Paul Walter Hauser, Alexandra Shipp) – Movie Review

The 2021 American real-life crime thriller film Silk Road, written and directed by Tiller Russell, is very flawed but it certainly has its moments and its plus points, and it is in the interesting category. […]

Nov, 05

The Mating Game ** (1959, Debbie Reynolds, Tony Randall, Paul Douglas, Una Merkel) – Classic Movie Review 11,705

H E Bates’s The Darling Buds of May go USA with the fairly lively and appealing 1959 MGM comedy film The Mating Game. Paul Douglas scores as crusty Pop Larkin and Debbie Reynolds twinkles prettily […]

Nov, 05

Les Maudits [The Damned] **** (1947, Marcel Dalio, Henri Vidal, Florence Marly, Fosco Giachetti, Paul Bernard) – Classic Movie Review 11,704

Director René Clément’s 1947 French film Les Maudits [The Damned] is an impressive, well-made and exciting thriller, set at the end of World War Two in 1945, as Germany is losing the war, about a […]

Nov, 05

The Maverick Queen *** (1956, Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Scott Brady, Mary Murphy, Wallace Ford, Jim Davis, Howard Petrie, Emil Meyer) – Classic Movie Review 11,703

Director Joseph Kane’s 1955 Western film The Maverick Queen is filmed in Naturama widescreen and Trucolor, and stars Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Scott Brady, Mary Murphy, Wallace Ford, Jim Davis, Howard Petrie and Emil Meyer. […]

Nov, 04

Knightriders ***½ (1981, Ed Harris, Gary Lahti, Tom Savini, Amy Ingersoll, Patricia Tallman, Christine Forrest) – Classic Movie Review 11,699

Writer-director George A Romero takes time off from his zombie pictures to direct the 1981 personal drama film Knightriders, a modern-day knights in armour adventure about a travelling renaissance fair troupe, in which motorbikes replace […]

Nov, 03

Ride the Pink Horse **** (1947, Robert Montgomery, Wanda Hendrix, Andrea King, Thomas Gomez, Fred Clark, Art Smith) – Classic Movie Review 11,698

Directors Robert Montgomery’s 1947 Universal Studios black and white film noir crime film Ride the Pink Horse is based on the 1946 novel by Dorothy B Hughes, and stars Robert Montgomery, Wanda Hendrix, Andrea King, […]

Nov, 03

To Sleep with Anger **** (1990, Danny Glover, Paul Butler, Mary Alice, Carl Lumbly, Vonetta McGee, Richard Brooks, Sheryl Lee Ralph) – Classic Movie Review 11,697

Writer-director Charles Burnett’s 1990 film To Sleep with Anger is a beautifully realised domestic drama centring on Southerner Harry (Danny Glover)’s disruptive arrival in the peaceful house of a South Central Los Angeles African-American family. To […]

Nov, 03

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