Derek Winnert

Force of Evil ***** (1948, John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor) – Classic Movie Review 2556

Co-writer/director Abraham Polonsky’s dynamic, first-rate 1948 film noir crime thriller stars John Garfield, who gives a superlative performance as Joe Morse, a gangster’s attorney who lets his greed overcome his sense of morality. Morse is […]

Jun, 06 · in Reviews

Rocketship X-M **** (1950, Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen, John Emery, Noah Beery Jr, Hugh O’Brian, Morris Ankrum) – Classic Movie Review 2562

Producer-director Kurt Neumann’s trail-blazing 1950 sci-fi movie is the first American outer space adventure of the post-World War Two era. It was quickly shot in just 18 days and rushed into cinemas 25 days before the high-profile Destination Moon, […]

Jun, 06 · in Reviews

Flight to Mars *** (1951, Cameron Mitchell, Marguerite Chapman, Arthur Franz, Virginia Huston, John Litel, Richard Gaines, Morris Ankrum) – Classic Movie Review 2561

  Director Lesley Selander’s pioneering 1951 low-budget sci-fi movie quickie, produced by Walter Mirisch for poverty row studios Monogram, stars Cameron Mitchell, Marguerite Chapman, Arthur Franz, Virginia Huston, John Litel, Richard Gaines and Morris Ankrum. […]

Jun, 06

El Dorado **** (1966, John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, Charlene Holt, Arthur Hunnicutt, Edward Asner, Christopher George) – Classic Movie Review 2560

Howard Hawks directs John Wayne and Robert Mitchum in this big Western film El Dorado late in all their careers in 1966. The 58-year-old Duke stars as the once-ace gunman Cole Thornton with a paralysed […]

Jun, 06

Looney Tunes: Back in Action *** (2003, Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, Steve Martin, Timothy Dalton, Heather Locklear, Joan Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 2559

Director Joe Dante’s 2004 movie finds Warner Bros following up their 1996 Space Jam hit with a new mix of animation and live action. This time Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny are embroiled in twin […]

Jun, 05

But I’m a Cheerleader **** (1999, Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall, Michelle Williams, Cathy Moriarty, RuPaul) – Classic Movie Review 2558

Natasha Lyonne and Clea DuVall act their pom-poms off in director Jamie Babbit’s deliciously subversive, highly amusing little 1999 comedy spoof, with a witty screenplay by Brian Wayne Peterson based on Babbit’s original story. It’s […]

Jun, 05

Ma Vie en Rose **** (1997, Georges Du Fresne, Michèle Laroque, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Hélène Vincent) – Classic Movie Review 2557

Co-writer/director Alain Berliner’s brave and extraordinary 1997 Belgian-French-UK movie centres on its heart-warming story about a little seven-year-old boy called Ludovic Fabre (Georges Du Fresne, aged 12) who dreams about being a little girl, troubles […]

Jun, 05

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