Derek Winnert

War Dogs **** (2016, Jonah Hill, Miles Teller, Steve Lantz, Bradley Cooper, Ana de Armas, Kevin Pollak) – Movie Review

Jonah Hill is great in his best The Wolf of Wall Street mode as real-life buccaneering wheeler and dealer Efraim Diveroli, who started up in the shady arms dealing business with his friend David Packouz (Miles […]

Sep, 04 · in Uncategorized

Things to Come [L’avenir] **** (2016, Isabelle Huppert, André Marcon, Roman Kolinka, Edith Scob) – Movie Review

It never rains but it pours! Isabelle Huppert enchants as Paris high school philosophy teacher Nathalie, whose life starts coming apart at the seams when her difficult, possessive mother (Edith Scob) gets sick and dies, her husband (André Marcon) announces he is leaving […]

Sep, 04 · in Uncategorized

Don’t Breathe **** (2016, Stephen Lang, Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto) – Movie Review

Jane Levy stars as Rocky, who, with her boyfriend Money (Daniel Zovatto) and their reluctant young friend Alex (Dylan Minnette), decides to take part in the robbery of a remote creepy old house owned by […]

Sep, 04

Circus World [The Magnificent Showman] *** (1964, John Wayne, Rita Hayworth, Claudia Cardinale, John Smith, Lloyd Nolan, Richard Conte) – Classic Movie Review 4295

The Western meets the circus in director Henry Hathaway’s enjoyable old-style 1964 adventure movie, with John Wayne enjoying himself in a ripe and rich turn as circus owner Matt Masters leading a Wild West show through […]

Sep, 03

The Panther’s Claw **½ (1942, Sidney Blackmer, Byron Foulger, Rick Vallin, Herbert Rawlinson, Gerta Rozan, Lynn Starr) – Classic Movie Review 4294

Sidney Blackmer takes over from Adolphe Menjou as tough Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt for director William Beaudine’s 1942 belated third Colt film, this time from PRC studios. Extortion leads to homicide at the opera and […]

Sep, 03

The Night Club Lady *** (1932, Adolphe Menjou, Mayo Methot, Ruthelma Stevens, Richard ‘Skeets’ Gallagher) – Classic Movie Review 4293

This nifty mystery movie is the second film in Adolphe Menjou’s two-film Columbia Pictures’ series, followed by The Circus Queen Murder (1933). It is available to be seen on Turner Classic Movies. Menjou stars as top cop police […]

Sep, 03

The Circus Queen Murder *** (1933, Adolphe Menjou, Greta Nissen, Ruthelma Stevens, Dwight Frye, Donald Cook, Harry Holman) – Classic Movie Review 4292

‘MURDER WITH THOUSANDS OF EYE WITNESSES…but NO ONE COULD TELL HOW OR WHY SHE MET HER DEATH!’ Adolphe Menjou stars as police commissioner Thatcher Colt, who is on holiday in upstate New York with his […]

Sep, 03

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