Derek Winnert

Apache Drums *** (1951, Stephen McNally, Coleen Gray, Willard Parker, Arthur Shields) – Classic Movie Review 4271

Esteemed horror-film expert Val Lewton produces director Hugo Fregonese’s highly intriguing 1951 B-movie Western, bringing his characteristic imaginative touch of claustrophobic atmosphere. That lifts the level of an unremarkable tale about settlers forced to defend their town […]

Aug, 30 · in Uncategorized

Night Has a Thousand Eyes **** (1948, Edward G Robinson, Gail Russell, John Lund, Virginia Bruce, William Demarest, Richard Webb, Jerome Courtland) – Classic Movie Review 4270

Director John Farrow’s taut and moody 1948 little suspense thriller stars Edward G Robinson as a vaudeville theatre psychic turn, phony stage mentalist John Triton, who acquires powers of precognition and predicts that a troubled […]

Aug, 30 · in Uncategorized

Café Society **** (2016, Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Steve Carell, Blake Lively, Jeannie Berlin, Ken Stott) – Movie Review

The 80-year-old Woody Allen conjures up one of his better movies in 2016, a charming, sparkling bitter-sweet romantic comedy, with a retro 30s both coasts setting that gives him plenty of chance to show off his […]

Aug, 30

The Woman in Red *** (1984, Gene Wilder, Kelly LeBrock, Charles Grodin, Joseph Bologna, Judith Ivey, Gilda Radner) – Classic Movie Review 4269

Gene Wilder writes, directs and stars in this extremely bubbly and highly amusing 1984 madcap romantic comedy The Woman in Red, based on Yves Robert’s 1976 French farcical film Pardon Mon Affaire [Un éléphant ça trompe […]

Aug, 30

The Woman in Red ** (1935, Barbara Stanwyck, Gene Raymond, John Eldredge, Genevieve Tobin) – Classic Movie Review 4268

Director Robert Florey’s 1935 drama stars Barbara Stanwyck and Gene Raymond as mismatched new couple Shelby and John Wyatt, who struggle through his snobbish family’s dislike of her and charges that she has been fooling […]

Aug, 30

The Clairvoyant ***½ (1935, Claude Rains, Fay Wray, Jane Baxter, Mary Clare, Athole Stewart, Ben Field, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 4267

Director Maurice Elvey’s excellent little 1935 British suspense thriller stars Claude Rains as the apparently phoney psychic and mind reader Maximus who finds that he is really able to predict a train crash. The fake music-hall […]

Aug, 30

Sausage Party ***½ (2016, voices Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Jonah Hill, James Franco, Michael Cera) – Movie Review

We don’t get too many adult animations, so this one is welcome if only for that, though adult animation is a misnomer, Sausage Party is very darned juvenile. It’s all weiner and buns jokes, all F and C […]

Aug, 29

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