Derek Winnert

Catch Me Daddy *** (2014, Sameena Jabeen Ahmed, Connor McCarron, Gary Lewis) – Movie Review

Co writer-director Daniel Wolfe‘s hard-hitting, gritty, well-made Brit thriller can boast a refreshingly different take thanks to the grungy locations around Sheffield, desperate film noir-style characters and strikingly unusual visuals. The stark and stylish cinematography by Robbie Ryan […]

Feb, 25 · in Reviews

Focus **½ (2015, Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Rodrigo Santoro, Gerald McRaney) – Movie Review

Will Smith and Margot Robbie star together as veteran con man Nicky and Jess, the amateur con artist he takes under his wing and into his crime outfit. Though Smith is 46 and Robbie (who made such […]

Feb, 25 · in Reviews

The Go-Between ***** (1971, Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Dominic Guard, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave) – Classic Movie Review 2213

Director Joseph Losey and his screenwriter Harold Pinter together fashion this most ravishing and touching 1971 film out of L P Hartley’s marvellous, delicate novel about the divided loyalties of a young boy (Dominic Guard) who, […]

Feb, 25

Invasion of the Body Snatchers **** (1978, Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Leonard Nimoy) – Classic Movie Review 2,212

Donald Sutherland stars as public health man Matthew Bennell, alarmed at the strange behaviour of his friends who have turned into pod people, in the exciting, glossy, big-budget 1978 sci-fi horror movie Invasion of the […]

Feb, 24

Love Me or Leave Me ***** (1955, Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 2211

Director Charles Vidor’s 1955 musical drama Love Me or Leave Me is a brilliantly spirited, acidic-flavoured, fictionalised biopic of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting. Her fraught life, tricky career and tempestuous relationship with […]

Feb, 24

Lost Horizon ***** (1937, Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard, Thomas Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 2,210

Shangri-la seems to be the perfect escape, but is it the Utopia it appears? Frank Capra’s charming 1937 romantic adventure film Lost Horizon stars Ronald Colman. Director Frank Capra’s 1937 romantic adventure classic film Lost […]

Feb, 24

Kiss Me Deadly **** (1955, Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Wesley Addy) – Classic Movie Review 2209

Producer-director Robert Aldrich’s 1955 film noir crime movie stars Ralph Meeker, who is on scalding form as Mickey Spillane’s private detective hero Mike Hammer. This first-rate Aldrich thriller is a hugely imaginative, ahead-of-its-time study in paranoia. […]

Feb, 23

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