Derek Winnert

The Anniversary *** (1968, Bette Davis, Jack Hedley, James Cossins, Sheila Hancock, Christian Roberts, Elaine Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 2755

Director Roy Ward Baker’s viciously funny 1968 British movie The Anniversary stars Bette Davis, who, as expected, pulls out all the stops in a total tour-de-force as Mrs Taggart, a one-eyed, merciless monster of a mommie […]

Jul, 30 · in Reviews

Cub [Welp] ***½ (2014, Maurice Luijten, Evelien Bosmans, Titus De Voogdt) – Movie Review

Co-writer/director Jonas Govaerts‘s Cub is a really good horror movie in the classic style. It starts nice and tense and creepy, then it turns plenty gory and exciting, and it is topped off with a surprising ending. […]

Jul, 30 · in Reviews

Beyond the Reach *** (2014, Michael Douglas, Jeremy Irvine, Ronny Cox, Martin Palmer) – Movie Review

Old Michael Douglas and young Jeremy Irvine fight it out in a battle to the death as high-rolling corporate shark Madec and his poor young guide Ben on a hunting trip in the Mojave Desert. Ronny […]

Jul, 29

Hot Pursuit * (2015, Reese Witherspoon, Sofía Vergara, Matthew Del Negro) – Movie Review

Reese Witherspoon and Sofía Vergara are certainly game for a laugh but have nothing fresh or funny to add to 2013’s very similar The Heat with Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy. This time it’s Witherspoon who […]

Jul, 29

Red Dust **** (1932, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond, Mary Astor) – Classic Movie Review 2754

‘He treated ’em rough and they loved it…’ Co-producer/director Victor Fleming’s sizzling 1932 MGM romantic adventure comedy movie Red Dust boasts the memorable, sexy pairing of Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in a romantic tussle […]

Jul, 29

Mogambo *** (1953, Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Donald Sinden) – Classic Movie Review 2753

Director John Ford’s 1953 MGM romantic adventure comedy movie stars the great, sexy team of Clark Gable, Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly, whose lustrous allure is the film’s evident recommendation. Based on the play Red Dust […]

Jul, 29

Moby Dick *** (1956, Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, Orson Welles, Harry Andrews, James Robertson Justice, Bernard Miles, Mervyn Johns) – Classic Movie Review 2752

Co-writer/director John Huston’s intelligent and entertaining but only half-successful 1956 film version of the legendary Herman Melville classic novel stars Gregory Peck as one-legged ship’s Captain Ahab who obsessively pursues his adversary, the great whale […]

Jul, 29

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