Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Una ** (2016, Rooney Mara, Ben Mendelsohn, Riz Ahmed) – Movie Review

Director Benedict Andrews’s 2016 Britsh film is a drab and disappointing drama that plays uncinematically and so feels like it is based on a stage play – and it turns out it is, screen-writer David […]

Oct, 08 · in Reviews

The Autopsy of Jane Doe *** (2016, Emile Hirsch, Brian Cox, Ophelia Lovibond, Michael McElhatton, Olwen Kelly) – Movie Review

The 2016 supernatural horror film The Autopsy of Jane Doe stars Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch as father and son coroners, who receive from the New England town sheriff an unknown homicide victim who has […]

Oct, 08 · in Reviews

Loophole ***½ (1954, Barry Sullivan, Dorothy Malone, Charles McGraw, Don Haggerty, Mary Beth Hughes, Don Beddoe) – Classic Movie Review 4467

Director Harold D Schuster’s 1953 little gem of a thriller stars Barry Sullivan as Mike Donovan, a bank worker who has to find the real robber after he is falsely accused of stealing $50,000 from his […]

Oct, 08

Dragoon Wells Massacre ***½ (1957, Barry Sullivan, Dennis O’Keefe, Mona Freeman, Katy Jurado, Sebastian Cabot, Harry Dean Stanton, Casey Adams, Jack Elam, Trevor Bardette, Hank Worden) – Classic Movie Review 4465

Director Harold Schuster’s 1957 minor gem of Western freshly re-tells an old, old cowboy story, in the wake of Stagecoach, about a wagon load of bickering travellers in the desert being attacked by Apaches. Despite its […]

Oct, 08

Dragonwyck **** (1946, Gene Tierney, Vincent Price, Glenn Langan, Walter Huston, Anne Revere, Spring Byington, Harry Morgan, Jessica Tandy) – Classic Movie Review 4466

‘Dangerously, she dared to love!’ Gene Tierney stars as beautiful Connecticut farm girl Miranda Wells, in the 1946 period mystery thriller film Dragonwyck.  ‘Dangerously, she dared to love!’ Gene Tierney stars as beautiful Connecticut farm girl […]

Oct, 08

You Can Count on Me **** (2000, Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Matthew Broderick, Rory Culkin, Jon Tenney, Gaby Hoffmann, Amy Ryan) – Classic Movie Review 4464

Writer-director Kenneth Lonergan’s 2000 film was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Screenplay and Best Actress. It won the Sundance 2000 Grand Jury Prize and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, the New York Film […]

Oct, 07

Manchester by the Sea **** (2016, Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges, Gretchen Mol, Matthew Broderick, C J Wilson) – Movie Review

Casey Affleck is outstanding as Lee Chandler, a New England uncle who is legally supposed to take care of his 16-year-old nephew Patrick ‘Patti’ (Lucas Hedges) when the boy’s father (Kyle Chandler) dies suddenly and makes him guardian in […]

Oct, 07

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