Derek Winnert

Nobody’s Fool **** (1994, Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy) – Classic Movie Review 872

Writer-director Robert Benton’s small but perfectly formed 1994 film Nobody’s Fool landed Paul Newman with a deserved Best Actor Oscar nomination for his sterling turn as Sully Sullivan, an ageing small-town construction worker who has a […]

Mar, 06 · in Reviews

The Hustler ***** (1961, Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, George C Scott) – Classic Movie Review 870

Paul Newman is outstanding as small-time pool hustler ‘Fast’ Eddie Felson, in the 1961 classic film The Hustler, and Piper Laurie is memorable as Newman’s troubled, alcoholic lost girl, Sarah Packard. In co-writer/director Robert Rossen’s […]

Mar, 06 · in Reviews

Bullet (Danny Trejo) – Film Review

Danny Trejo (Machete, Breaking Bad) stars as Frank ‘Bullet’ Marasco, a cop who takes the law and a lot of guns into his own hands when his little grandson Mario (Kyle Villalovos) is kidnapped, in […]

Mar, 06

300: Rise of an Empire **** (2014, Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Lena Headey, Jack O’Connell, Hans Matheson) – Film Review

Australian film and television actor Sullivan Stapleton stars as Greek general Themistocles, who leads the charge against invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) and Artemisia, vengeful commander of the Persian navy, in this […]

Mar, 06

The Grand Budapest Hotel **** (2014, Ralph Fiennes, F Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Jude Law, Bill Murray) – Movie Review

Writer-director Wes Anderson’s supremely quirky and lusty comic tale of the adventures of legendary hotel concierge Gustave H and his trusted lobby boy friend Zero Moustafa is incredibly stylish and eye-catching. Wow, it looks great! In […]

Mar, 05

Murder Most Foul *** (1964, Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell, Dennis Price, Terry Scott) – Classic Movie Review 866

The third Margaret Rutherford Miss Jane Marple movie Murder Most Foul (1964) sees the spinster sleuth as the only jury member refusing to accept her co-jurors’ guilty verdict in the trial of a lodger accused […]

Mar, 05

Murder at the Gallop **** (1963, Margaret Rutherford, Stringer Davis, Robert Morley, Flora Robson, Finlay Currie, Charles Tingwell) – Classic Movie Review 865

Hooray for Margaret Rutherford’s second, exceedingly satisfying big-screen mystery entertainment as Dame Agatha Christie’s sleuth Miss Marple, the 1963 comedy crime thriller Murder at the Gallop. Old Lady Crime snoops to conquer when the rich […]

Mar, 05

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