Derek Winnert

Escape from Alcatraz **** (1979, Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom) – Classic Movie Review 6347

The only real-life escape from the infamous San Francisco island prison of Alcatraz in 1962 provides the true story for director Don [Donald] Siegel’s totally gripping 1979 Clint Eastwood thriller. Three inmates attempt a daring escape […]

Dec, 02 · in Reviews

Pancho Villa [El Desafio de Pancho Villa] *½ (1971, Telly Savalas, Clint Walker, Chuck Connors, Anne Francis ) – Classic Movie Review 6346

An exciting train-crunching station shootout climax helps to save director Eugenio [Gene] Martin’s too often mundane and dreary 1971 paella Western from total tedium. And so do the star cast of Telly Savalas as Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa, […]

Dec, 02 · in Reviews

A Town Called Bastard [A Town Called Hell] **½ (1971, Telly Savalas, Robert Shaw, Stella Stevens, Martin Landau, Michael Craig, Fernando Rey, Dudley Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 6345

Director Robert Parrish’s cold-blooded, crudely made and excessively violent 1971 Spaghetti Western (or paella Western as it is filmed in Spain), with its main assets in the dependable cast – especially Robert Shaw, Martin Landau, […]

Dec, 02

The Man Who Invented Christmas * (2017, Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Pryce) – Movie Review

I’ve just opened my Time Out and I’m in shock. They gave The Man Who Invented Christmas FOUR STARS! So I’ve got to say it: ‘Bah, humbug!’ The Man Who Invented Christmas is a well meaning […]

Dec, 02

Wonder **½ (2017, Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, Jacob Tremblay, Noah Jupe, Mandy Patinkin, Izabela Vidovic) – Movie Review

Lionsgate is the studio that started developing this feature film adaptation of R J Palacio’s debut novel Wonder right back in 2012. It proved a good decision. It has already grossed $73 million worldwide on a $20 […]

Dec, 02

The Disaster Artist ***½ (2017, Dave Franco, James Franco, Seth Rogen, Ari Graynor, Paul Scheer, Alison Brie) – Movie Review

What are people saying about The Disaster Artist? I will tell you. They are saying it is funny, not hysterical, except occasionally, but definitely funny. The casting is canny – real-life famous actor brothers playing a […]

Dec, 02

Big Town ** (1946, Phillip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Veda Ann Borg, Robert Lowery, Byron Barr, Nana Bryant, Charles Arnt) – Classic Movie Review 6344

‘RADIO’S DYNAMIC RACKET BUSTER…on the Screen!‘ The first film in producers William H Pine and William C Thomas’s series based on the Big Town radio series introduces The Illustrated Press’s managing editor Steve Wilson (Phillip […]

Dec, 02

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