Derek Winnert

Eureka *** (1983, Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, Rutger Hauer, Mickey Rourke, Joe Pesci) – Classic Movie Review 6616

Director Nicolas Roeg’s fascinating but uneasy 1983 film about the world’s richest man (Gene Hackman), Arctic prospector Jack McCann, who struck gold in 1925. Two decades on, he is a Citizen Kane figure who is having […]

Jan, 28 · in Reviews

Insignificance **** (1985, Gary Busey, Tony Curtis, Theresa Russell, Michael Emil, Will Sampson) – Classic Movie Review 6615

Insignificance is very entertaining, witty and intelligent. Perhaps against the odds, director Nicolas Roeg has a total success with the idea for his 1985 British comedy drama film. It is a straightforward filming of Terry […]

Jan, 28 · in Reviews

Jennifer 8 [Jennifer Eight] ** (1992, Andy Garcia, Uma Thurman, Lance Henriksen, John Malkovich) – Classic Movie Review 6,614

Andy Garcia stars in the 1992 mystery crime thriller film Jennifer 8 as John Berlin, a burnt-out police detective who finds himself on the trail of a mysterious serial killer of blind young women. Andy Garcia […]

Jan, 28

The Professionals **** (1966, Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Jack Palance, Ralph Bellamy, Claudia Cardinale, Woody Strode, Joe De Santis) – Classic Movie Review 6613

Writer-producer-director Richard Brooks’s fast, feisty and frisky 1966 Western boasts plenty of action and suspense, and just the right cast (Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan) for the big kind of acting demanded in this […]

Jan, 28

Gholam *** (2017, Shahab Hosseini, Nasser Memarzia, Armin Karima) – Movie Review

Good and gritty British Iranian thriller, with an unusual story, a strong central performance by Shahab Hosseini as troubled London cab driver Gholam and striking cinematography that gives a fresh take on a grungy, run-down […]

Jan, 28

The Scarlet Clue ** (1945, Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Ben Carter, Benson Fong) – Classic Movie Review 6,612

The 1945 thriller film The Scarlet Clue stars Sidney Toler in a fair, busy, tautly handled Charlie Chan series entry with Earl Derr Biggers’s Oriental detective chasing World War Two foreign agents to get back […]

Jan, 27

Scared Stiff *** (1953, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Lizabeth Scott, Carmen Miranda) – Classic Movie Review 6611

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis star as nightclub lounge singer Larry Todd and his soppy busboy friend and partner Myron Mertz fleeing from a murder charge and washing up on a creepy Caribbean island recently […]

Jan, 27

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