Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Hell or High Water **** (2016, Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Gil Birmingham, John-Paul Howard, Marin Ireland, Dale Dickey) – Movie Review

Jeff Bridges stars as bad-tempered, well crusty, old sheriff Marcus Hamilton, who with his buddy Mexican Indian cop Alberto Parker (Gil Birmingham) is doggedly on the trail of divorced dad Toby Howard and his ex-con brother Tanner, […]

Sep, 08 · in Uncategorized

Dr Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs [Le spie vengono dal semifreddo] * (1966, Vincent Price, Fabian Forte, Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia) – Classic Movie Review 4314

‘MEET THE MOST TITILATING TIME BOMBS EVER! ‘ Vincent Price went to Italy to re-create his role as the mad scientist Dr Goldfoot for director Mario Bava’s unwanted and stupid 1966 sequel to the previous […]

Sep, 08 · in Uncategorized

Don’t Look Back **** (1967, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Donovan, Alan Price, Allen Ginsberg, Albert Grossman) – Classic Movie Review 4313

Bob Dylan’s tour of the UK in 1965 comes under the scrutiny of director D A Pennebaker’s cameras in a deservedly famous, pioneering 1967 fly-on-the-wall rockumentary, which has a sharp eye for the boredom of the […]

Sep, 07

Destination Tokyo *** (1943, Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale Jr, Tom Tully, Warner Anderson, John Forsythe, Dane Clark, Faye Emerson) – Classic Movie Review 4,312

You don’t expect to find Cary Grant in heroic mode, at the helm of a submarine, in a World War Two action movie. But here he is in the exciting, persuasive 1943 wartime propaganda film […]

Sep, 07

The 9th Life of Louis Drax ***½ (2016, Jamie Dornan, Aiden Longworth, Sarah Gadon, Molly Parker, Aaron Paul, Barbara Hershey, Oliver Platt) – Movie Review

Jamie Dornan stars as Dr Allan Pascal, who is drawn into the mystery of his coma patient, accident-prone nine-year-old Louis Drax (Aiden Longworth), who has suffered a lifetime of curious mishaps culminating in his near-fatal fall […]

Sep, 07

An Alligator Named Daisy **½ (1955, Donald Sinden, Diana Dors, Jeannie Carson, James Robertson Justice, Stanley Holloway, Stephen Boyd, Roland Culver, Margaret Rutherford) – Classic Movie Review 4311

Director J Lee Thompson’s utterly daft, not very witty 1955 British Technicolor comedy An Alligator Named Daisy boasts a pleasant atmosphere and some moderate, simple guffaws, not least through the charming cast’s astonishing ability to […]

Sep, 06

Three Men in a Boat **½ (1956, Jimmy Edwards, Laurence Harvey, David Tomlinson, Shirley Eaton, Robertson Hare, Jill Ireland, Lisa Gastoni, Martita Hunt, Adrienne Corri, A E Matthews, Ernest Thesiger) – Classic Movie Review 4310

All should be plain sailing with director Ken Annakin’s 1956 British screen version of Jerome K Jerome’s misadventures of three less than eminent Victorians, Harris, George and Jimmy (Jimmy Edwards, Laurence Harvey and David Tomlinson), […]

Sep, 06

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