Derek Winnert

Do the Right Thing **** (1989, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Spike Lee, Bill Nunn, John Turturro) – Classic Movie Review 6263

Writer-producer-director Spike Lee is back on great form with the hard-hitting, intelligent and entertaining 1989 drama Do the Right Thing that takes an incisive look at a day in the life of a small Brooklyn […]

Nov, 16 · in Reviews

Jungle Fever *** (1991, Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Spike Lee, Anthony Quinn, John Turturro, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Lonette McKee, Samuel L Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 6262

Writer-producer-director Spike Lee’s sharp and edgy 1991 drama stars Wesley Snipes as Flipper Purify, a married African-American architect who cheats on his wife Drew (Lonette McKee) and begins an affair with his Italian secretary Angie Tucci […]

Nov, 16 · in Reviews

Frankie and Johnny ** (1966, Elvis Presley, Donna Douglas, Harry Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 6261

Director Frederick de Cordova’s 1965 romantic musical stars Elvis Presley as Johnny, a singing gambler on a Mississippi river showboat, who is tempted away from his lover Frankie (Donna Douglas) by the charms of sweet Nellie […]

Nov, 15

Double Trouble * (1967, Elvis Presley, Annette Day, John Williams, Chips Rafferty, Norman Rossington) – Classic Movie Review 6260

Director Norman Taurog’s 1967 crime comedy musical is a harmless but really rather ghastly showcase for Elvis Presley, one of his weakest films. Chips Rafferty and Norman Rossington co-star as bumbling gem crooks pursuing rock singer […]

Nov, 15

Gray Lady Down ** (1978, Charlton Heston, David Carradine Stacy Keach, Ned Beatty, Stephen McHattie, Ronny Cox) – Classic Movie Review 6259

‘Trapped underwater… with time running out.’ Charlton Heston stars in director David Greene’s sombre 1978 action adventure disaster movie as a US Navy Captain called Paul Blanchard, whose nuclear submarine The USS Neptune has collided […]

Nov, 15

Bear Island ** (1979, Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Barbara Parkins, Lloyd Bridges) – Classic Movie Review 6258

Director Don Sharp’s 1979 Canadian-British film Bear Island is yet another Seventies movie version of one of Alistair MacLean’s popular action suspense thrillers, this time his 1971 bestseller, shifting more than eight million copies. This […]

Nov, 15

Fear Is the Key *** (1972, Barry Newman, Suzy Kendall, John Vernon, Dolph Sweet, Ray McAnally, Ben Kingsley) – Classic Movie Review 6,257

Barry Newman stars in Fear Is the Key as the hard-bitten adventurer John Talbot, who sets about plotting an elaborate scheme to avenge the deaths of his wife and child in a plane crash. Alistair […]

Nov, 15

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