Derek Winnert

Self/less *** (2015, Ryan Reynolds, Natalie Martinez, Matthew Goode, Ben Kingsley, Victor Garber) – Movie Review

Ben Kingsley stars (all too briefly) as elderly Damian, a cancer-stricken dying American real estate mogul who learns of a process called ‘shedding’. He transfers his consciousness into a healthy body of a decades younger […]

Jul, 15 · in Reviews

True Story ***½ (2015, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Felicity Jones) – Movie Review

There’s lots of fascinating interest in this creepy and provocative True Story about New York Times reporter Michael Finkel, who gets out of the frying pan and into the fire after he is disgraced and […]

Jul, 15 · in Reviews

The Gallows * (2015, Reese Mishler, Pfeifer Brown, Ryan Shoos, Cassidy Gifford) – Movie Review

Shot in Fresno, California, this horror movie about a cursed high school theatre production is enterprisingly made on a small budget. Playing like an eager-to-scare amateur student film, it was independently funded and produced before being […]

Jul, 15

It Happened at the World’s Fair *** (1963, Elvis Presley, Joan O’Brien, Gary Lockwood, Vicky Tiu, Yvonne Craig, Kurt Russell) – Classic Movie Review 2,712

The smooth 1963 musical comedy film It Happened at the World’s Fair stars Elvis Presley and Gary Lockwood as crop-duster plane fliers, and Joan O’Brien as Elvis’s girlfriend, with Kurt Russell in his film debut. […]

Jul, 15

3,000 Miles to Graceland *** (2001, Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner, Courteney Cox, Christian Slater, David Arquette, Bokeem Woodbine) – Classic Movie Review 2711

Co-writer/director Demian Lichtenstein’s full-on 2001 black-comedy action thriller stars Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner, Christian Slater, David Arquette and Bokeem Woodbine as a gang of ex-con crooks who dress up as Elvis to rob a Las […]

Jul, 15

Mr Skeffington ***** (1944, Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel, Richard Waring) – Classic Movie Review 2700

The 1944 American drama film Mr Skeffington stars Bette Davis as a selfish, vain and bitchy woman who marries Jewish financier Job Skeffington (Claude Rains) only to save her brother from going to prison. Director […]

Jul, 14

Dark Victory ***** (1939, Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ronald Reagan, Henry Travers) – Classic Movie Review 2,699

Get your box of hankies at the ready for director Edmund Goulding’s irresistible 1939 tearjerker film Dark Victory, starring Bette Davis as Judith Traherne, a wealthy young socialite who learns that she has an inoperable […]

Jul, 14

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