Derek Winnert

Sabotage ***** (1936, Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester) – Classic Movie Review 278

Alfred Hitchcock’s extremely tense and flavourful 1936 film version of Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent is one of his best British films of the 30s. Sabotage follows The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes in […]

Oct, 08 · in Reviews

The Green Mile ***** (1999, Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse) – Classic Movie Review 277

Tom Hanks is ideally cast as Paul Edgecomb, the head guard supervising prisoners on Death Row at the Deep South Coal Mountain Correctional Facility in the 1930s. When John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), a gentle […]

Oct, 07 · in Reviews

The To Do List ** (2013, Aubrey Plaza, Johnny Simmons, Bill Hader, Alia Shawkat, Rachel Bilson, Sarah Steele, Andy Samberg, Scott Porter, Christopher Mintz-Plasse) – Movie Review

Writer/ director Maggie Carey’s 2013 American romantic comedy film The To Do List stars Aubrey Plaza as the sexually inexperienced Brandy Klark, who makes a list of sex things to accomplish before she goes to […]

Oct, 07

Machete Kills * (2103, Danny Trejo, Alexa Vega, Mel Gibson, Charlie Sheen) – Movie Review

Danny Trejo returns from Robert Rodriguez’s 2010 movie Machete as the knife-wielding Mexican ex-Federale agent Machete, who is recruited by the US President (Charlie Sheen, billed under his real name as Carlos Estevez) for a […]

Oct, 07

Gangs of New York ***** (2002, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Daniel Day-Lewis, Liam Neeson, Henry Thomas) – Classic Movie Review 276

Leonardo DiCaprio stars in Martin Scorsese’s eagerly awaited, highly ambitious and well received 2002 American fictional historical epic. In an unpleasant slap in the face, it was nominated for 10 Oscars and didn’t win a single one. […]

Oct, 07

Red River ***** (1948, John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 275

Producer-director Howard Hawks’s mammoth epic 1948 classic Western gives John Wayne one of his best ever roles as Thomas ‘Tom’ Dunson, a tyrannical empire-building cattleman. He seems to relish kicking up the dust, playing opposite […]

Oct, 06

The Lodger (A Story of the London Fog) ***** (1927, Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, June Tripp, Arthur Chesney, Malcolm Keen) – Classic Movie Review 274

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 silent film version of the famous 1913 novel The Lodger by Mrs Marie Belloc Lowndes is his first thriller,  establishing him as a star name director. The Lodger (A Story of the […]

Oct, 06

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