Derek Winnert

McQueen *** (2018, Alexander McQueen) – Movie Review

Directors Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui’s documentary about the life of designer Alexander McQueen is exhaustive and exhausting. It is fascinating and commendable, but a bit of a hard-going long haul in the cinema at 111 minutes, […]

Jun, 08 · in Reviews

The Lawless Frontier ** (1934, John Wayne, Earl Dwire, Sheila Terry, Jack Rockwell, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Yakima Canutt) – Classic Movie Review 7134

Writer-director Robert N Bradbury’s 1934 The Lawless Frontier is a brisk, pacy, short and intriguing Lone Star/ Monogram studios B-movie Western, in which a pre-A-list stardom John Wayne plays John Tobin, who sets out to […]

Jun, 08 · in Reviews

The Lawless Nineties ** (1936, John Wayne, Ann Rutherford, Harry Woods, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Al Bridge, Fred Toones, Etta McDaniel, Lane Chandler) – Classic Movie Review 7133

Director Joseph Kane’s modest and familiar but intriguing and moderately enjoyable 1936 pre-superstardom John Wayne Republic studios short black and white B-Western casts The Duke as Federal Agent John Tipton, who comes undercover to Wyoming […]

Jun, 08

Lawless Heart **** (2001, Douglas Henshall, Tom Hollander, Bill Nighy) – Classic Movie Review 7132

Three men take stock of their lives after the death of a gay restaurateur friend in writer-directors Tom Hunsiger and Neil Hunter’s 2001 British intersecting stories film Lawless Heart. The acclaimed, extremely well-acted and very carefully […]

Jun, 08

Ride Him, Cowboy ** (1932, John Wayne, Ruth Hall, Otis Harlan, Henry B Walthall) – Classic Movie Review 7131

John Wayne’s first starring role in a B-Western is the first of six that he made for release by Warner Bros. A young, fresh-faced 25-year-old Wayne plays John Drury, who rescues Duke the white stallion, the […]

Jun, 08

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom *** (2018, Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt, Ted Levine, Jeff Goldblum) – Movie Review

It plays like a video game, has very little story to speak of, two likeable stars battling blue screen to produce performances, some miscast British actors struggling, and an irritating little girl at the centre […]

Jun, 07

The Dawn Rider *** (1935, John Wayne, Marion Burns, Dennis Moore) – Classic Movie Review 7130

Writer-director Robert N Bradbury’s 1935 The Dawn Rider is another early John Wayne low-budget B-movie Western with a then lanky young John playing John Mason out for revenge when the bad guys kill his loving father […]

Jun, 07

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