Derek Winnert

The Handmaiden **** (2016, Min-hee Kim, Tae-ri Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Jin-woong Jo ) – Movie Review

Director Chan-wook Park’s 2016 Korean adults-only period romantic mystery drama The Handmaiden is most provocative and enjoyable. Tae-ri Kim plays Sook-Hee, who is hired as a handmaiden around 1930 to a Japanese heiress Lady Hideko (Min-hee Kim). However, she is secretly […]

Feb, 03 · in Reviews

High School Big Shot ** (1959, Tom Pittman, Virginia Aldridge, Howard Veit) – Classic Movie Review 4980

‘Million Dollar Murder!’ Writer-director Joel Rapp’s 1959 teen angst B-movie thriller stars Tom Pittman as Marv the title High School Big Shot, who helps a cute, gold-digging girl called Betty (Virginia Aldridge) with her homework […]

Feb, 02 · in Reviews

Highly Dangerous [Time Running Out] *** (1950, Margaret Lockwood, Dane Clark, Marius Goring, Naunton Wayne) – Classic Movie Review 4979

Margaret Lockwood stars in the J Arthur Rank Organisation’s 1950 British spy film Highly Dangerous as entomologist Frances Gray, sent by British Intelligence on a dangerous espionage mission to an Eastern European Iron Curtain country to […]

Feb, 02

Ten Cents a Dance *** (1931, Barbara Stanwyck, Monroe Owsley, Ricardo Cortez) – Classic Movie Review 4978

The actor Lionel Barrymore directs Barbara Stanwyck in his 1931 drama as Barbara O’Neill, a taxi dancer hostess in the Palais de Dance (‘All you need is a ticket and some courage,’ she tells a […]

Feb, 02

Highway Dragnet ** (1954, Richard Conte, Joan Bennett, Wanda Hendrix, Reed Hadley) – Classic Movie Review 4977

Director Nathan Juran’s 1954 film noir thriller stars Richard Conte as James Henry, a US Marine hitch-hiker, a Korean War veteran, who is picked up by driving freelance magazine fashion photographer Mrs. Cummings (Joan Bennett) […]

Feb, 01

Forbidden *** (1953, Tony Curtis, Joanne Dru, Lyle Bettger, Marvin Miller) – Classic Movie Review 4976

Director Rudolph Maté’s 1953 romantic film noir crime drama Forbidden provides a good change of pace for its star Tony Curtis, who wears suits for a change, as a hood called Eddie Darrow who is […]

Feb, 01

Forbidden *** (1932, Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Bellamy) – Classic Movie Review 4975

Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou and Ralph Bellamy star in Frank Capra’s 1932 film about a young librarian who falls in love with a married man while on a sea cruise, based on the novel Back Street by Fannie Hurst. Co-writer/ director Frank […]

Feb, 01

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