Derek Winnert

Key Largo ***** (1948, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G Robinson) – Classic Movie Review 1345

Co-writer/director John Huston’s deliciously atmospheric, cynical and world-weary 1948 film noir thriller is the fourth and final film pairing of married actors Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, after To Have and Have Not (1944), The […]

Jun, 21 · in Reviews

Dark Passage ***** (1947, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Agnes Moorehead, Bruce Bennett, Tom D’Andrea, Houseley Stevenson, Clifton Young, Douglas Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 1344

Writer-director Delmer Daves’s 1947 Warner Bros vintage film noir mystery thriller Dark Passage marks the extremely satisfying third star pairing in the series of the four films made by husband and wife Humphrey Bogart and […]

Jun, 21 · in Reviews

Rush Hour 2 *** (2001, Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker) – Classic Movie Review 1343

Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker team up again as Inspector Lee and LAPD detective James Carter for the first sequel to their 1998 blockbuster. This time they get involved in more crime-fighting chaos when they take […]

Jun, 21

Rush Hour *** (1998, Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker) – Classic Movie Review 1342

Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker team up as Inspector Lee and Detective James Carter for entertaining, crime-fighting chaos. Director Brett Ratner’s rumbustious, highly popular 1998 action comedy thriller stars Jackie Chan as a Hong Kong […]

Jun, 21

Handgun *** (1994, Seymour Cassel, Treat Williams) – Classic Movie Review 1341

Seymour Cassel stars as Jack McCallister, an ageing robber who’s wounded in a bungled payroll heist, but manages to steal and then stashes away half a million dollars in debut writer-director Whitney Ransick’s witty 1994 […]

Jun, 21

The Letter ***** (1940, Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Victor Sen Yung, Gale Sondergaard) – Classic Movie Review 1340

‘Even my agony was a kind of joy!’, yells the great Bette Davis, who sins, kills, lies, cheats and publicly humiliates her forgiving husband Herbert Marshall in director William Wyler’s powerhouse, overwhelmingly haunting 1940 film […]

Jun, 21

Rat Race ** (2002, John Cleese, Cuba Gooding Jr, Seth Green) – Classic Movie Review 1339

A scheming Las Vegas casino magnate, hotel-casino owner John Cleese, starts a fun race to New Mexico to collect $2million, prompting a bumbling group of no-hopers to set off a cross-continent dash to reach the dosh. […]

Jun, 20

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