Derek Winnert

Raid on Rommel * (1971, Richard Burton, John Colicos, Clinton Greyn, Wolfgang Preiss) – Classic Movie Review 6446

‘LIBYA – 1943. After almost three years of bitter desert warfare, Rommel’s brilliant use of his Panzer divisions has driven the British into a position of desperation. The fate of the Mediterranean hangs in the […]

Dec, 21 · in Reviews

Aquarius **** (2016, Sonia Braga, Maeve Jinkings, Irandhir Santos) – Movie Review

Brazilian film-maker Kleber Mendonca Filho’s  exceptional 2016 film boasts a career high performance from Sonia Braga (Kiss of the Spider Woman, 1985). She plays 65-year old widowed retired music critic Clara, the last resident of […]

Dec, 21 · in Reviews

Come Back, Little Sheba **** (1952, Shirley Booth, Burt Lancaster, Terry Moore) – Classic Movie Review 6445

In her film debut, Shirley Booth won the 1953 Best Actress Oscar and Golden Globe for her extraordinary performance (repeating her Tony award-winning stage role) in director Mann’s 1952 film version of William Inge’s famous […]

Dec, 20

Leningrad Cowboys Go America **** (1989, Matti Pellonpää, Kari Väänänen, Sakke Järvenpää) – Classic Movie Review 6444

Cult director Aki Kaurismäki’s determinedly oddball 1989 comedy from Finland tells the story of a spectacularly untalented Siberian rock band, the fictional Leningrad Cowboys, travelling across America with their manager Vladimir (Matti Pellonpää) to look for […]

Dec, 20

I Died a Thousand Times *** (1955, Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lori Nelson, Lon Chaney Jr, Lee Marvin, Earl Holliman) – Classic Movie Review 6443

An iconic Fifties cast adds huge allure to the intriguing 1955 cult crime thriller I Died a Thousand Times, the second remake of High Sierra, a film noir shot in CinemaScope and Warnercolor. Director Stuart […]

Dec, 20

Colorado Territory **** (1949, Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Dorothy Malone, Henry Hull, John Archer) – Classic Movie Review 6,442

Raoul Walsh’s powerful 1949 Western film Colorado Territory gallops along, with a moody, fatalistic atmosphere swirling around Joel McCrea and Virginia Mayo, plus a dark film noir look refreshingly unusual in a Western. Director Raoul […]

Dec, 20

Decision at Sundown **** (1957, Randolph Scott, John Carroll, Karen Steele, Noah Beery Jr) – Classic Movie Review 6441

‘At last the search was over … now he was face-to-face with the killers who had dishonored his wife!’ Director Budd Boetticher’s 1957 Technicolor classic cult Western film Decision at Sundown stars Randolph Scott as […]

Dec, 20

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