Derek Winnert

Gringo *** (2018, Joel Edgerton, Charlize Theron, David Oyelowo, Sharlto Copley, Thandie Newton, Melonie Diaz, Amanda Seyfried, Harry Treadaway, Theo Taplitz) – Movie Review

Director Nash Edgerton’s strong and robust dark-toned action comedy thriller has an admirable ensemble cast, but eventually focuses mainly on David Oyelowo as mild-mannered businessman Harold ‘Harry’ Soyinka, who has a life-or-death battle of survival after he […]

Mar, 11 · in Uncategorized

Wonder Wheel **** (2017, Kate Winslet, Justin Timberlake, Jim Belushi, Juno Temple) – Movie Review

Writer-director Woody Allen’s 2017 Wonder Wheel is a dark, bleak masterwork, a late gem from the troubled film-maker, in the vein of his Blue Jasmine. I think I counted one attempt at joke in the entire […]

Mar, 11 · in Uncategorized

Botany Bay *** (1952, James Mason, Alan Ladd, Patricia Medina, Cedric Hardwicke) – Classic Movie Review 6789

Director John Farrow’s 1952 adventure movie Botany Bay stars Alan Ladd as unjustly convicted prisoner Hugh Tallant, an American medical student who is locked in a battle royal with vicious, sadistic ship’s Captain Gilbert (James […]

Mar, 11

Murder by Death **** (1976, Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Elsa Lanchester, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith, Nancy Walker, Estelle Winwood) – Classic Movie Review 6788

Director Robert Moore’s clever and witty 1976 comedy parodies a number of famous detectives, with Peter Sellers indulging himself as Sidney Wang in a spoof of Charlie Chan, Peter Falk as Sam Diamond in a spoof […]

Mar, 11

Rough Cut ** (1980, Burt Reynolds, Lesley-Anne Down, David Niven) – Classic Movie Review 6787

Director Don Siegel’s 1980 penultimate movie stars Burt Reynolds as twinkling, sophisticated jewel thief Jack Rhodes, with one eye on the jewels and the other on the ladies. Reynolds is rightly compared to Cary Grant, […]

Mar, 10

Jinxed! ** (1982, Bette Midler, Ken Wahl, Rip Torn) – Classic Movie Review 6786

Bette Midler’s 1982 black comedy Jinxed! was certainly jinxed. It was supposed to be a classy hit what with director Don Siegel, cinematographer Vlimos Zsigmond and writers Frank D Gilroy and David Newman – all […]

Mar, 10

Le Bossu [The King’s Avenger] *** (1959, Jean Marais, Bourvil, Sabine Sesselmann) – Classic Movie Review 6785

The dashing Jean Marais stars as Henri de Lagardère, an adventurer knight, who, along with popular French comedian Bourvil as his sidekick Passepoil, performs lots of derring-dos during the Regency of Louis XV, in director […]

Mar, 10

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