Derek Winnert

Paddington 2 *** (2017, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Hugh Grant, Brendan Gleeson, voice of Ben Whishaw) – Movie Review

Paddington 2 plods pleasantly along in its likeably retro sort of way, with most of it very pleasing and enjoyable. The nice and warm script is OK, though the strain shows a bit this time, […]

Oct, 28 · in Uncategorized

Jigsaw * (2017, Matt Passmore, Tobin Bell, Callum Keith Rennie, Hannah Emily Anderson, Clé Bennett) – Movie Review

Eleanor Bonneville: ‘It’s Jigsaw.’ Logan Nelson: ‘Jigsaw’s dead.’ Eleanor Bonneville: ‘Is he?’ The Spierig Brothers’ tediously gruesome and grisly reboot of the Saw franchise is as disgusting and revolting as it is stale and pointless. […]

Oct, 28 · in Uncategorized

Umberto D ***** (1952, Carlo Battisti, Maria-Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari, Ileana Simova, Elena Rea) – Classic Movie Review 6150

Co-writer/ director Vittorio De Sica’s classic 1952 humanist, neo-realist drama movie is commandingly shot on location in Rome by the Italian maestro in his prime, though also in the studio at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios. Based on […]

Oct, 28

Ulysses’ Gaze [To vlemma tou Odyssea] * (1995, Harvey Keitel, Erland Josephson, Maia Morgenstern) – Classic Movie Review 6149

There are those who think this is one of the all-time great movies, but most others will be driven screaming away from the cinema or TV set with a headache by its unbelievably slow pace […]

Oct, 27

The Asphyx *** (1972, Robert Stephens, Robert Powell, Jane Lapotaire) – Classic Movie Review 6,148

The macabre 1973 British sci-fi horror movie The Asphyx stars Robert Stephens as an obsessed Victorian English scientist who traps the spirit of death that supposedly enters bodies when they die, with Robert Powell as […]

Oct, 27

I Mobster *** (1959, Steve Cochran, Lita Milan, Robert Strauss, Celia Lovsky, John Brinkley, John Mylong) – Classic Movie Review 6147

Director Roger Corman’s lively and lusty 1959 film noir crime drama movie I Mobster is your usual version of that usual, well-known yarn, used again in 1992 in Billy Bathgate and Mobsters, about a poor […]

Oct, 27

Grip of the Strangler [The Haunted Strangler] *** (1958, Boris Karloff, Elizabeth Allan, Jean Kent, Vera Day, Anthony Dawson) – Classic Movie Review 6,146

The 1958 British horror thriller Grip of the Strangler [The Haunted Strangler] stars Boris Karloff as a mystery writer who investigates the case of a serial murderer hanged two decades earlier and discovers that he […]

Oct, 27

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