Derek Winnert

Throw Momma from the Train **** (1987, Danny DeVito, Billy Crystal, Anne Ramsey, Kim Greist, Kate Mulgrew, Annie Ross, Rob Reiner, Bruce Kirby) – Classic Movie Review 4935

Director/ star Danny DeVito’s gleefully entertaining 1987 directorial feature film debut is yet another raid on the work of Alfred Hitchcock. This time it is a bright and breezy black comedy about a student in […]

Jan, 25 · in Reviews

Heaven **** (2002, Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Remo Girone, Stefania Rocca) – Classic Movie Review 4934

The bomb that Philippa (Cate Blanchett), a British teacher living in Turin, builds a home-made bomb to bring justice to Turin’s biggest drug dealer after her husband’s death from a drug overdose and the police ignore her […]

Jan, 25 · in Reviews

Run Lola Run [Lola Rennt] **** (1998, Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup) – Classic Movie Review 4933

Writer-director Tom Tykwer’s fast-moving, freewheeling, inventive 1998 German crime thriller movie shows three different versions of the same story – Lola (Franca Potente)’s fleet-footed attempt to save her boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu)’s skin. Manni calls […]

Jan, 24

The Enemy Below **** (1957, Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens, David Hedison) – Classic Movie Review 4931

Producer-director Dick Powell’s great 1957 World War Two watery action adventure epic drama follows the story of an American destroyer and a German U-boat chasing each other around the South Atlantic. Robert Mitchum and Curt […]

Jan, 24

The Run of the Country *** (1995, Albert Finney, Matt Keeslar, Victoria Smurfit) – Classic Movie Review 4932

Matt Keeslar plays Danny, a rebellious teenage boy who is having trouble with his father (Albert Finney), a short tempered Irish rural policeman, in director Peter Yates’s well-crafted, sincere, heart-tugging 1995 slice of Irish baloney. […]

Jan, 24

Run Silent, Run Deep **** (1958, Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden, Brad Dexter, Nick Cravat) – Classic Movie Review 4930

Director Robert Wise’s 1958 wartime action adventure Run Silent, Run Deep is one of the great submarine movies, with two great movie stars, Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster, both on their best form. Sparks fly […]

Jan, 24

Riffraff *** (1935, Jean Harlow, Spencer Tracy, Joseph Calleia, Una Merkel, Mickey Rooney, Victor Kilian) – Classic Movie Review 4,929

The likeable and fairly sparky 1935 romantic comedy crime drama film Riffraff boasts the appealing combination of Spencer Tracy and Jean Harlow as fellow workers organising a strike against the owners of a tuna cannery. […]

Jan, 24

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