Derek Winnert

Tall Man Riding *** (1955, Randolph Scott, Robert Barrat, Dorothy Malone, Peggie Castle) – Classic Movie Review 6684

The tall man is craggy, square-jawed Randolph Scott (6′ 2″), who stars as straight-shooting Larry Madden, who is embroiled in a vendetta with cattle baron Tuck Ordway (Robert Barrat), whose daughter Corinna (Dorothy Malone) he has […]

Feb, 13 · in Reviews

Early Man ** (2018, voices of Eddie Redmayne, Maisie Williams, Tom Hiddleston, Timothy Spall, Nick Park, Miriam Margolyes, Rob Brydon) – Movie Review

Early Man is small and thin but perfectly formed. Nick Park’s slightly underwhelming Aardman animated feature Early Man is good natured and harmless, but its thin idea is stretched to near breaking point to fill an […]

Feb, 13 · in Reviews

Tanganyika ** (1954, Van Heflin, Howard Duff, Ruth Roman, Jeff Morrow) – Classic Movie Review 6683

Director André De Toth [deToth]’s 1954 Technicolor movie Tanganyika is a moderate but fairly engaging action adventure film starring a capable quartet of interesting players in Van Heflin, Howard Duff, Ruth Roman and Jeff Morrow. […]

Feb, 12

Bitter Moon ** (1992, Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner, Peter Coyote) – Classic Movie Review 6682

For his 1992 romantic thriller drama Bitter Moon, co-writer/ producer/ director Roman Polanski looks at modern marriage and comes up with a very old shaggy dog story. Aboard a ship to Istanbul on their way […]

Feb, 12

The Man Who Knew Too Little ** (1997, Bill Murray, Joanne Whalley, Peter Gallagher, Alfred Molina, Richard Wilson, John Standing, Geraldine James) – Classic Movie Review 6681

Director John Amiel’s silly, lowbrow 1997 Swinging Sixties-style screwball comedy is enlivened and sharpened a little by Bill Murray’s typically acerbic comic acting as Wallace Ritchie, an Iowa suburban video store clerk who flies to […]

Feb, 12

Interiors ***** (1978, Diane Keaton, E G Marshall, Geraldine Page, Maureen Stapleton, Kristin Griffith, Mary Beth Hurt, Richard Jordan, Sam Waterston) – Classic Movie Review 6,680

Mary Beth Hurt makes her film debut as Joey, the second of three sisters dealing with the emotional fallout of a family’s disintegration, in Woody Allen’s dramatic film Interiors (1978). Devotees of the early Woody Allen gag-driven comedies […]

Feb, 12

Intermezzo: A Love Story **** (1939, Ingrid Bergman, Leslie Howard, Edna Best) – Classic Movie Review 6679

It is time to get your box of handkerchiefs at the ready for director Gregory Ratoff’s irresistibly charming 1939 romantic drama tearjerker that launched the American career of Ingrid Bergman, who had already appeared in […]

Feb, 11

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