Derek Winnert

Orders to Kill **** (1958, Paul Massie, Irene Worth, James Robertson Justice, Leslie French, Eddie Albert, Lillian Gish, John Crawford, Lionel Jeffries, Sandra Dorne) – Classic Movie Review 6870

The 1958 British thriller Orders to Kill is a powerful and persuasive wartime moral dilemma film. Paul Massie stars as an American agent parachuted into France in World War Two with orders to kill a […]

Mar, 30 · in Reviews

Crescendo * (1970, Stefanie Powers, James Olson, Margaretta Scott) – Classic Movie Review 6869

Director Alan Gibson’s mediocre 1969 Hammer horror stars Stefanie Powers as Susan Roberts, a brisk and capable US research graduate, who sets off for southern France to seek out a decidedly odd family to do […]

Mar, 29 · in Reviews

A Wrinkle in Time * (2018, Storm Reid, Levi Miller, Deric McCabe, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Chris Pine) – Movie Review

Director Ava DuVernay’s Disney kids and early-teen movie for easily entertained girls is embarrassingly awful, with a shamelessly manipulative and sentimental screenplay by Jennifer Lee and Jeff Stockwell, based upon the novel by Madeleine L’Engle. It plays like a […]

Mar, 29

Have a Nice Day [Hao jile] [Dashijie] **** (2017, voices of Changlong Zhu, Kai Cao, Jian Liu) – Movie Review

I have good news! Writer director Jian Liu’s dark and brutal noir animation film 2017 Have a Nice Day [Hao jile] is brilliantly smart and stylish. In his simple but complicated story set in a […]

Mar, 29

The Old Dark House * (1963, Tom Poston, Janette Scott, Robert Morley, Joyce Grenfell, Mervyn Johns, Fenella Fielding, Peter Bull, Danny Green) – Classic Movie Review 6868

Universal Studios lost the rights to the original J B Priestley story in 1957 and director James Whale’s brilliant 1932 old dark comedy chiller The Old Dark House was duly remade by director William Castle in 1962 for […]

Mar, 29

Man Trouble * (1992, Jack Nicholson, Ellen Barkin, Beverly D’Angelo, Harry Dean Stanton, Saul Rubinek) – Classic Movie Review 6867

Jack Nicholson stars as a down-at-heel guard dog trainer hired by opera singer Joan Spruance (Ellen Barkin) to steal a manuscript for a tell-all book from one of his clients, her airhead sister who is […]

Mar, 27

The Lady Consents ** (1936, Ann Harding, Herbert Marshall, Margaret Lindsay, Walter Abel, Edward Ellis) – Classic Movie Review 6866

There are bleeding hearts aplenty in director Stephen Roberts’s well-played by extremely trite little 1936 melodrama in which Herbert Marshall plays Doctor Michael J Talbot who divorces his selfless wife Anne Talbot (Ann Harding) for […]

Mar, 27

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