Derek Winnert

Tower of London **** (1939, Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Barbara O’Neil, Ian Hunter, Vincent Price, Nan Grey, John Sutton, Leo G Carroll, Miles Mander) – Classic Movie Review 4438

Producer-director Rowland V Lee’s stirring 1939 Universal horror movie successfully reworks William Shakespeare’s play Richard III as a rousing Gothic historical chiller, shot by George Robinson in classy black and white. Basil Rathbone stars as […]

Oct, 01 · in Reviews

Torpedo Run *** (1958, Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Diane Brewster, Dean Jones, L Q Jones, Philip Ober) – Classic Movie Review 4437

Director Joseph Pevney’s edgy, intelligent and capably directed 1958 World War Two action adventure is helped by Glenn Ford’s earnest, strong-note star role as dogged, semi-crazed American submarine commander Barney Doyle. He vows to stop […]

Sep, 30 · in Uncategorized

Deepwater Horizon **½ (2016, Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, Ethan Suplee, Kate Hudson, Dylan O’Brien, Gina Rodriguez) – Movie Review

Director Peter Berg teams up again with Mark Wahlberg after their 2103 success Lone Survivor for Deepwater Horizon, a well-made, well-acted and arguably tense and exciting real-life disaster movie that takes a scary look at the catastrophe in April of 2010 on […]

Sep, 30

The Bonfire of the Vanities ** (1990, Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall, Saul Rubinek, Morgan Freeman, F Murray Abraham, John Hancock, Kevin Dunn) – Classic Movie Review 4436

Director Brian De Palma’s 1990 vanity project flop fiasco stars an exceptional cast of Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall, Saul Rubinek, Morgan Freeman, F Murray Abraham, John Hancock and Kevin Dunn. Hanks […]

Sep, 29

Genghis Khan ** (1965, Omar Sharif, Stephen Boyd, Françoise Dorléac, James Mason, Robert Morley, Telly Savalas, Woody Strode, Eli Wallach, Yvonne Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 4435

Director Henry Levin’s costly ($3.5 million), large-scale 1965 international action epic spectacular tells a lively, comic-book version of the legendary story – that is mostly unhistorical and fictionalised – but with a shaky script and […]

Sep, 29

The Long Ships ** (1964, Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn, Rosanna Schiaffino, Oscar Homolka) – Classic Movie Review 4434

Richard Widmark is absurdly cast as Rolfe, a Viking adventurer, and Sidney Poitier not much better as Prince Aly Mansuh, leader of the Moors, who come to blows over the legendary Golden Bell, made of pure […]

Sep, 29

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children ** (2016, Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Samuel L Jackson, Judi Dench, Rupert Everett, Chris O’Dowd, Ella Purnell) – Movie Review

Director Tim Burton’s 2016 teenage fantasy adventure movie is, as ever, intriguing and lovingly crafted, not to mention strongly cast, but this time a disappointing let-down. I’m afraid I was rather bored by the dull and […]

Sep, 28

@wpshower

Feeds

Susbscribe to our awesome Blog Feed or Comments Feed