Derek Winnert

Ashes and Diamonds ***** [Popiól i diament] (1958, Zbigniew Cybulski, Waclaw Zastrzezynski, Adam Pawlikowski) – Classic Movie Review 4469

Co-writer/director Andrzej Wajda’s 1958 Polish drama made a star of the vibrant Zbigniew Cybulski, who suddenly burst forth in international cinema as Poland’s answer to James Dean, brilliantly playing the leading role of mixed-up young partisan […]

Oct, 09 · in Reviews

The Girl Next Door *** (2004, Emile Hirsch, Elisha Cuthbert, Timothy Olyphant, James Remar, Chris Marquette, Paul Dano, Timothy Bottoms) – Classic Movie Review 4468

Director Luke Greenfield’s 2004 comedy stars Emile Hirsch as Matthew Kidman, an American teen who gets lucky when an ex-porn star (24’s Elisha Cuthbert) moves in next door. Timothy Olyphant plays her pushy producer who […]

Oct, 09 · in Reviews

Bleed for This *** (2016, Miles Teller, Aaron Eckhart, Ciarán Hinds, Katey Sagal, Ted Levine) – Movie Review

Three splendid performances from Miles Teller, Aaron Eckhart and Ciarán Hinds as a real-life boxer, his coach and his dad, are the making of this otherwise just par-for-the-course inspirational boxing drama. Slightly oddly cast Teller is first […]

Oct, 08

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

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

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

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