Derek Winnert

Owd Bob [To the Victor] **** (1937, Will Fyffe, John Loder, Margaret Lockwood, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt) – Classic Movie Review 2800

Director Robert Stevenson’s sweet, lovingly crafted 1937 film drama stars Will Fyffe as an old Scots farmer called Adam McAdam who has a sheepdog by the name of Black Wull, which is alleged to be […]

Aug, 13 · in Uncategorized

Oxygen *** (1999, Maura Tierney, Adrien Brody, Dylan Baker, James Naughton) – Classic Movie Review 2803

Co-producer/writer/director Richard Shepard’s 1999 psychological thriller is busy, twisting and nasty toned. Maura Tierney stars as Madeline Foster, a sado-masochistic police detective who tries to free a hostage who’s been buried alive at gunpoint in […]

Aug, 13 · in Uncategorized

Onibaba [The Hole] ***** (1964, Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Satô) – Classic Movie Review 2809

Writer-director Kaneto Shindo’s ultra-thrilling, scary and imaginative 1964 Japanese horror story is a brilliant original. Shindo’s plot is about a 14th century Japanese mother and her daughter-in-law, grieving for their beloved son and husband, who […]

Aug, 13

Paper Towns **½ (2015, Nat Wolff, Cara Delevingne, Austin Abrams, Justice Smith) – Movie Review

Adapted from the bestselling novel by John Green, director Jake Schreier’s Paper Towns is a smart-looking and smartly acted romantic coming-of-age movie for older teenage girls and early 20something women. The Fault in Our Stars crowd […]

Aug, 13

Pixels ** (2015, Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Peter Dinklage, Josh Gad, Brian Cox, Michelle Monaghan, Sean Bean) – Movie Review

Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Peter Dinklage, Josh Gad star as Sam Brenner, Will Cooper, Ludlow Lamonsoff, and Eddie ‘The Fire Blaster’ Plant, who played classic arcade video games as teenagers. In 2015 they have to use their […]

Aug, 12

Man Hunt **** (1941, Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, John Carradine, Roddy McDowall, Ludwig Stossel, Heather Thatcher) – Classic Movie Review 2807

Fritz Lang’s riveting 1941 wartime thriller Man Hunt finds Walter Pidgeon well cast as an English big game hunter who misses his chance to kill Adolf Hitler. Director Fritz Lang’s riveting 1941 American wartime thriller […]

Aug, 12

Western Union **** (1941, Randolph Scott, Robert Young, Dean Jagger, Virginia Gilmore, Slim Summerville, John Carradine, Chill Wills) – Movie Review 2808

The ideally cast Randolph Scott stars in a cheering performance as cowboy hero Vance Shaw in director Fritz Lang’s top-notch 1941 Western film Western Union, loosely based on the Zane Grey novel, with a grade-A 20th […]

Aug, 12

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