Derek Winnert

Bullets or Ballots **** (1936, Edward G Robinson, Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart, Barton MacLane, Frank McHugh) – Classic Movie Review 2729

Director William Keighley’s sharp and involving 1936 gangster movie stars the great Edward G Robinson, along with Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart, Barton MacLane Frank McHugh. And Robinson is on the side of the law for […]

Jul, 22 · in Reviews

Marked Woman **** (1937, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane, Isabel Jewell, Eduardo Ciannelli, Mayo Methot, Jane Bryan) – Classic Movie Review 2,728

In the stalwart 1937 film noir crime drama Marked Woman, Bette Davis shows feisty form as a club hostess or ‘party girl’, whose sister is accidentally killed during one of the unsavoury parties. Humphrey Bogart […]

Jul, 22 · in Reviews

Twisted * (2004, Ashley Judd, Andy Garcia, Samuel L Jackson, David Strathairn) – Classic Movie Review 2727

Director Philip Kaufman’s 2004 thriller promises much but must count as a big disappointment. A serial killer is at work in San Francisco and all the victims are former lovers of tough but vulnerable newly-promoted […]

Jul, 22

The Rock **** (1996, Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, David Morse, William Forsythe, Michael Biehn, John C McGinley, Vanessa Marcil) – Classic Movie Review 2726

Everybody just loved The Rock. The cheeky 1996 action thriller about a threatened nerve gas attack on San Francisco stars Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris and is directed by Michael Bay, for producers […]

Jul, 21

Leaving Las Vegas **** (1995, Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands) – Classic Movie Review 2,725

Nicolas Cage won the Best Actor Oscar as a suicidal alcoholic who decides to move to Las Vegas and drink himself to death, in the 1995 drama film Leaving Las Vegas. Writer-director Mike Figgis’s 1995 drama film Leaving Las […]

Jul, 21

Green Street [Green Street Hooligans] *** (2005, Elijah Wood, Charlie Hunnam, Claire Forlani ) – Classic Movie Review 2724

Writer-director Lexi Alexander 2005 British-American independent sport and crime drama tackles the issue of football hooliganism. Elijah Wood stars as American journalism major Matt Buckner, who is expelled from Harvard University after cocaine is discovered […]

Jul, 21

Moonstruck ***** (1987, Cher, Nicolas Cage, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello, Vincent Gardenia, Feodor Chaliapin Jr, John Mahoney) – Classic Movie Review 2,724

Dean Martin warbles ‘When the moon hits your eye like a great pizza pie, that’s amore,’ over the opening titles and then we are off on producer-director Norman Jewison’s wonderfully warm, deliciously romantic 1987 hit […]

Jul, 20

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