Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Equinox *** (1992, Matthew Modine, Lara Flynn Boyle, Fred Ward, Marisa Tomei, Lori Singer) – Classic Movie Review 11,564

Writer-director Alan Rudolph’s 1992 independent crime drama film Equinox focuses on two identical twin brothers, Henry Petosa and Freddy Ace (both played by Matthew Modine), one a shy garage mechanic, the other a small-time hoodlum working as driver […]

Sep, 10 · in Reviews

Ho! [Ho! Criminal Face] ** (1968, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Joanna Shimkus, Sydney Chaplin) – Classic Movie Review 11,563

Director Robert Enrico’s 1968 French-Italian crime film Ho! [Criminal Face – Storia di un Criminale] stars Jean-Paul Belmondo, Joanna Shimkus and Sydney Chaplin. As the race car driver François Holin, nicknamed Ho, Belmondo returns to […]

Sep, 09 · in Reviews

Les mariés de l’an deux [Sink or Swim] [The Scoundrel] *** (1971, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marlène Jobert, Laura Antonelli) – Classic Movie Review 11,561

Director Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s 1971 comedy adventure film Les mariés de l’an deux provides unusual, intriguing costume capers starting in America’s Deep South where it is revealed that soon-to-be-wed French immigrant Nicholas Philibert (Jean-Paul Belmondo) has […]

Sep, 09

The Night Caller [Peur sur la Ville] *** (1975, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Denner, Adalberto Maria Merli, Lea Massari, Rosy Varte) – Classic Movie Review 11,562

France’s top Seventies action star Jean-Paul Belmondo gives an engaging turn as Commissaire Jean Letellier, a cop on the trail of an infamous gangster, bank robbers and a phone-call serial killer of young women, in director […]

Sep, 08

Backfire ** (1964, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Gert Fröbe) – Classic Movie Review 11,560

Breathless stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg are reunited for director Jean Becker’s solid 1964 action crime-comedy Backfire [Echappement Libre]. Belmondo plays David Ladislas, a small-time Parisian crook who tries to smuggle a car to […]

Sep, 08

Model Wife *** (1941, Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Charles Ruggles, Lucile Watson, Billy Gilbert, Ruth Donnelly, Lee Bowman) – Classic Movie Review 11,559

Producer-director Leigh Jason’s 1941 American film Model Wife stars Joan Blondell and Dick Powell in a likeable, hard-working comedy about a young couple, Joan and Fred Chambers (Blondell and Powell), who have to keep their […]

Sep, 08

Cartouche [Swords of Blood] *** (1962, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claudia Cardinale) – Classic Movie Review 11,558

Director Philippe de Broca’s 1962 French swashbuckler film Cartouche [Swords of Blood] stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Claudia Cardinale. France’s legendary 18th-century thief-hero Cartouche is a lovely role for grinning young and dashing Belmondo, whose infectious, […]

Sep, 07

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