Derek Winnert

Monkey Shines: An Experiment in Fear **** (1988, Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil) – Classic Movie Review 2751

Writer-director George A Romero’s edge-of-seat, uber-gripping 1988 thriller boasts plenty of high anxiety, tension and chills throughout. Jason Beghe stars as Allan Mann, an athlete, cut down in his prime by a road accident and […]

Jul, 29 · in Reviews

Koyaanisqatsi ***** (1982, director Godfrey Reggio) – Classic Movie Review 2750

Director Godfrey Reggio points his time-lapse cameras at America in the breath-taking 1982 documentary Koyaanisqatsi that stuns the eye and brain, and provides a totally hypnotic experience. Reggio comes up with an apparently endless sequence […]

Jul, 29 · in Reviews

Man with a Movie Camera [Chelovek s kino-apparatom] ***** (1929) – Classic Movie Review 2749

‘I am the camera eye. I am the mechanical eye. I am the machine which shows you the world as only I can see it.’ Director Dziga Vertov’s influential, light-hearted, fascinating 1929 Russian abstract documentary […]

Jul, 29

So Big *** (1932, Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Dickie Moore, Bette Davis, Hardie Albright) – Classic Movie Review 2,748

The 1932 movie So Big has the distinction of starring two great movie queens – Barbara Stanwyck, very much the star here, and Bette Davis, who catches the eye in a smallish role. Director William […]

Jul, 29

The Star **** (1952, Bette Davis, Sterling Hayden, Natalie Wood) – Classic Movie Review 2747

In Stuart Heisler’s 1952 romantic and Hollywood drama The Star, Bette Davis boldly takes on a role written for her arch-rival Joan Crawford, who then turned it down, about Margaret ‘Maggie’ Elliot, a has-been star […]

Jul, 28

Special Agent **½ (1935, Bette Davis, George Brent, Ricardo Cortez, Jack La Rue, Henry O’Neill) – Classic Movie Review 2746

Bette Davis and George Brent star in the brisk and capable 1935 crime drama film Special Agent, one of 13 movies they made together.  William Keighley directs this 1935 early Bette Davis star vehicle at […]

Jul, 28

Storm Center **** (1956, Bette Davis, Brian Keith, Kim Hunter, Kevin Coughlin, Paul Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 2745

Co-writer/director Daniel Taradash’s hesitant but important 1956 drama stars Bette Davis as widowed American small-town librarian Alicia Hull who is branded as a subversive and a Communist when she stands up to a campaign to […]

Jul, 27

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