Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Silence *** (2016, Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson) – Movie Review

I know I’m going to regret this, but here goes. Director Martin Scorsese is determined to give us a bad time from the get-go for his extreme, take-no-prisoners 2016 religious drama with torture from the […]

Jan, 08 · in Uncategorized

Untamed Frontier *** (1952, Joseph Cotten, Shelley Winters, Scott Brady, Suzan Ball, Minor Watson, Antonio Moreno) – Classic Movie Review 4867

Director Hugo Fregonese’s tough 1952 movie is a strongly cast, well-done Western. The familiar sounding story centres on a ruthless cattle baron called Matt Denbow (Minor Watson), who upsets local settlers by refusing to allow […]

Jan, 08 · in Uncategorized

Untamed Heart *** (1993, Christian Slater, Marisa Tomei, Rosie Perez, Kyle Secor, Willie Garson) – Classic Movie Review 4866

Co-producer/ director Tony Bill’s 1993 romantic tearjerker is an agreeably warm-hearted if vacuously entertaining love story for the Nineties. Marisa Tomei plays – delightfully – the clichéd role of a spunky but spurned waitress from Minneapolis. […]

Jan, 08

Untamed Youth **½ (1957, Mamie Van Doren, Lori Nelson, Lurene Tuttle, John Russell, Don Burnett) – Classic Movie Review 4863

Director Howard W Koch’s 1957 rock ‘n’ roll, juvenile delinquency, youth drama exploitation movie, written by John C. Higgins and Stephen Longstreet, stars Mamie Van Doren and Lori Nelson as American starstruck sisters Penny and Jane Lowe. Alas, […]

Jan, 08

Dirty Dingus Magee *** (1970, Frank Sinatra, George Kennedy, Anne Jackson, Jack Elam, Lois Nettleton, John Dehner, Henry Jones, Harry Carey Jnr) – Classic Movie Review 4865

Western expert producer-director Burt Kennedy’s roistering, boisterous 1970 B-movie-style Western finds its star Frank Sinatra enjoying himself in an unusually very broad performance as a dopey outlaw. That would be Dirty Dingus Billy Magee. With good performers […]

Jan, 08

Dirty Deeds **½ (2003, Bryan Brown, Toni Collette, Sam Neill, John Goodman, Sam Worthington) – Classic Movie Review 4864

Bryan Brown’s crime boss Barry Ryan tackles his angry wife Sharon (Toni Collette), a bent cop named Detective Sergeant Ray Murphy (Sam Neill) and a nasty US crook called Tony Testano (John Goodman) in writer-director […]

Jan, 08

Diplomatic Courier ***½ (1952, Tyrone Power, Patricia Neal, Stephen McNally, Hildegarde Neff, Karl Malden) – Classic Movie Review 4862

Tyrone Power stars as US Department of State courier Mike Kells, an American agent who is up to his ears in espionage, Soviet agents and seductive women, in director Henry Hathaway’s slick and satisfying 1952 […]

Jan, 08

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