Derek Winnert

Brainstorm *** (1983, Natalie Wood, Christopher Walken, Louise Fletcher, Cliff Robertson) – Classic Movie Review 6088

Producer-director Douglas Trumbull’s 1983 sci-fi thriller hokum Brainstorm about a devastating device that records emotions to transmit them to other people is fairly engaging. Christopher Walken and Louise Fletcher steal the film as the brilliant […]

Oct, 13 · in Uncategorized

78/52 **** (2017) – Movie Review

Director Alexandre O Philippe dissects the Psycho shower murder scene to riveting effect, with the help of some remarkable, over-excited experts and some great vintage clips. It is, quite obviously, a film buff’s paradise, and […]

Oct, 12 · in Uncategorized

The Young Lions *** (1958, Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Maximilian Schell, Hope Lange, Barbara Rush, May Britt) – Classic Movie Review 6087

Director Edward Dmytryk’s intelligent, thought-provoking 1958 war movie brings to the screen Irwin Shaw’s popular novel about the World War Two fates of two American soldiers – playboy entertainer Michael Whiteacre (Dean Martin), Jewish-American Noah Ackerman […]

Oct, 12

The Fiend Who Walked the West ** (1958, Hugh O’Brian, Dolores Michaels, Robert Evans, Edward Andrews, Linda Cristal, Stephen McNally, Ron Ely) – Classic Movie Review 6086

Director Gordon Douglas’s 1958 film The Fiend Who Walked the West is a full-blooded Western reworking of ideas from the 1947 Kiss of Death, with Robert Evans going enjoyably over the top as a psychotic murderer […]

Oct, 12

Le Feu Follet [The Fire Within] **** (1963, Maurice Ronet, Jeanne Moreau, Bernard Noël, Alexandra Stewart, Léna Skerla) – Classic Movie Review 6085

Writer-director Louis Malle’s 1963 film portrait of the final day in the life of a suicidal, alcoholic writer, Alain Leroy (played by Maurice Ronet), is both penetrating and incisive. He emerges disgusted from a course […]

Oct, 12

The Killing of a Sacred Deer **** (2017, Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan, Alicia Silverstone) – Movie Review 

Co-writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos’s dark and sinister drama is his keenly anticipated follow-up to The Lobster (2015). It is very much in the same spirit, a largely impenetrable, impeccably crafted old-style art movie, catnip for film […]

Oct, 12

Four Daughters **** (1938, Claude Rains, John Garfield, Jeffrey Lynn, Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, Gale Page, May Robson) – Classic Movie Review 6084

Director Michael Curtiz’s 1938 movie tells the sentimental but highly appealing soap-opera story of romance for four early adult sisters in a small American town. It was nominated for five Oscars, including Best Picture, Best […]

Oct, 11

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