Derek Winnert

Man Without a Star **** (1955, Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, Claire Trevor) – Classic Movie Review 7030

Director King Vidor’s 1955 Western rounds up the usual familiar Fifties ingredients: Kirk Douglas as a lonesome cowboy and a stock situation in which his roving drifter character Dempsey Rae works as foreman for a female […]

May, 10 · in Uncategorized

Masterson of Kansas * (1954, George Montgomery, Nancy Gates, James Griffith, Jean Willes, William Henry, David Bruce, Bruce Cowling) – Classic Movie Review 7029

Given the wealth of material available in the legends surrounding these real-life characters, director William Castle’s 1954 movie is an unnecessarily dull Western about the trio of famous gunslingers Bat Masterson (George Montgomery), Doc Holliday […]

May, 10 · in Uncategorized

Masters of the Universe **** (1987, Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella, Meg Foster, Billy Barty, Courteney Cox) – Classic Movie Review 7,028

Director Gary Goddard’s 1987 sci-fi fantasy action adventure film Masters of the Universe stars the Scandinavian super-hunk Dolph Lundgren, who gets a grand chance to flex his muscles as comic-strip heroic warrior hero He-Man, who […]

May, 10

The Last Run *** (1971, George C. Scott, Tony Musante, Trish Van Devere, Colleen Dewhurst) – Classic Movie Review 7027

George C Scott stars in The Last Run (1971) as a retired getaway driver who must make a final run to help a convict flee to France, and thus somehow to prove himself, in this […]

May, 09

Leaving Normal **** (1992, Christine Lahti, Meg Tilly, Patrika Darbo) – Classic Movie Review 7026

Director Edward Zwick’s excellent 1992 comedy drama stars Meg Tilly as mousy little Marianne Johnson, who walks out on her second marriage after her husband hits her. Following a chance meeting, she hitches a lift […]

May, 09

Custody [Jusqu’à la garde] **** (2017, Léa Drucker, Denis Ménochet, Thomas Gioria) – Movie Review

CUSTODY. First rate: totally gripping, disturbing and credible throughout. French writer-director Xavier Legrand’s engrossing and powerful debut feature comes to UK cinemas on 23 March 2018. Custody [Jusqu’à la garde] is first rate: totally gripping, disturbing, […]

May, 09

Freebie and the Bean *** (1974, Alan Arkin, James Caan, Loretta Swit, Valerie Harper) – Classic Movie Review 7,025

The rumbustious 1974 prototype buddy cop movie Freebie and the Bean stars James Caan and Alan Arkin as bickering San Francisco cops. Loretta Swit and Valerie Harper make a strong impression in a noisy, funny […]

May, 09

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