Derek Winnert

Adrift *** (2018, Shailene Woodley, Sam Claflin, Grace Palmer) – Movie Review

Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur’s real-life survival story Adrift is gripping, powerful and disturbing, and scarily realistic, propelled with two attractive star performances by Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin as avid sailors Tami Oldham and Richard Sharp […]

Jun, 27 · in Reviews

Sicario 2: Soldado **** (2018, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Isabela Moner, Catherine Keener, Matthew Modine) – Movie Review

Very strong, extremely powerful action thriller that actually thrills, Del Toro and Brolin excellent, some great set pieces, a huge body count and astounding visuals. Italian director Stefano Sollima’s Sicario 2: Soldado [aka Sicario: Day […]

Jun, 27 · in Reviews

La Cage aux Folles *** (1978, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Claire Maurier) – Classic Movie Review 7228

Director Édouard Molinaro’s rather rancid, risqué 1978 French farce La Cage aux Folles about an elderly gay couple, one of whom is the flamboyant drag queen Albin (Michel Serrault), at the St Tropez night-club run […]

Jun, 27

The Birdcage ** (1996, Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman, Dan Futterman, Calista Flockhart, Dianne Wiest) – Classic Movie Review 7226

Elaine May (born 21 April 1932) made her first showbiz splash back in the Fifties performing as Nichols and May in improvisational comedy routines with her performing partner Mike Nichols. But they broke up in 1961 and it […]

Jun, 27

Ebb Tide *** (1937, Oskar Homolka, Frances Farmer, Ray Milland, Barry Fitzgerald, Lloyd Nolan) – Classic Movie Review 7225

Director James Hogan’s 1937 Paramount Pictures adventure Ebb Tide is a robust but downbeat drama about three boozy sailor adventurers (Ray Milland as Robert Herrick, Oscar Homolka as captain Robert Herrick and Barry Fitzgerald as Huish), who are hit […]

Jun, 26

Among the Living **** (1941, Albert Dekker, Susan Hayward, Frances Farmer, Harry Carey Sr, Gordon Jones) – Classic Movie Review 7224

‘What horrible fascination did this monster have for women?’ Director Stuart Heisler’s 1941 Paramount Pictures black and white thriller Among the Living is a pleasurably different film noir suspense double-bill programme filler about Jekyll and […]

Jun, 26

Exclusive *** (1937, Charles Ruggles, Fred MacMurray, Frances Farmer, Lloyd Nolan) – Classic Movie Review 7223

Director Alexander Hall’s bright, lively, strongly cast 1937 Paramount Pictures black and white movie Exclusive is an authentic-seeming melodrama about rival newspapers, enriched with showy performances from Charles Ruggles as newspaper proprietor Tod Swain and Frances […]

Jun, 26

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