Derek Winnert

Roman J Israel, Esq *** (2017, Denzel Washington, Colin Farrell, Carmen Ejogo) – Movie Review 

Oscar nominated Denzel Washington gives a slightly fussy, rather florid performance as autistic savant idealistic defense attorney Roman J Israel, Esq in writer-director Dan Gilroy’s low-key, slow-moving personal existential crisis drama. Roman has Asperger syndrome, a developmental […]

Feb, 03 · in Reviews

The 13th Letter *** (1951, Linda Darnell, Charles Boyer, Michael Rennie, Constance Smith, Françoise Rosay) – Classic Movie Review 6643

What Otto Preminger’s 1951 film noir mystery thriller The 13th Letter lacks in subtlety, it makes up for in style.  What producer-director Otto Preminger’s 1951 film noir mystery thriller remake of Henri-Georges Clouseau’s 1943 French […]

Feb, 02 · in Reviews

Quai des Orfèvres **** (1947, Louis Jouvet, Bernard Blier, Suzy Delair, Pierre Larquey, Simone Renant, Charles Dullin) – Classic Movie Review 6642

Co-writer/ director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s beautifully acted and exquisitely crafted 1947 French policier thriller Quai des Orfrèvres is outstanding even in a genre the French regularly do so well. In Paris’s equivalent to Scotland Yard, the 36, […]

Feb, 02

Above Us the Waves *** (1955, John Mills, John Gregson, Donald Sinden, James Robertson Justice, Michael Medwin) – Classic Movie Review 6641

Director Ralph Thomas’s earnest and effective 1955 British World War Two wartime drama focuses on a brave band of British sailors (led by John Mills as commander Fraser, James Robertson Justice as admiral Ryder and John […]

Feb, 02

We Dive at Dawn **** (1943, John Mills, Eric Portman, Reginald Purdell, Niall MacGinnis, Joan Hopkins, Josephine Wilson, Jack Watling) – Classic Movie Review 6640

Director Anthony Asquith’s excellent 1943 tale of wartime life at home (a brief shore leave) and at sea for a British submarine crew on the HMS Sea Tiger stars John Mills as the skipper, Captain […]

Feb, 02

Logan’s Run *** (1976, Michael York, Richard Jordan, Jenny Agutter, Roscoe Lee Browne, Farrah Fawcett, Peter Ustinov, Michael Anderson Jr) – Classic Movie Review 6639

Director Michael Anderson provides a lively showcase for the lavish decor of the dubious 23rd century paradise that he conjures up in his good, crowd-pleasing 1976 sci-fi movie with the accent on pace, entertainment value […]

Feb, 01

We Are the Lambeth Boys **** (1959, documentary) – Classic Movie Review 6638

Karel Reisz’s classic 1959 British ‘Free Cinema’ documentary film looks at the lives of boys in a South London youth club, with revealing glances at their humdrum work lives. There is an amusing and telling […]

Feb, 01

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