Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Glory Alley * (1952, Ralph Meeker, Leslie Caron, Kurt Kasznar, Gilbert Roland, John McIntire, Louis Armstrong) – Classic Movie Review 11,388

‘Buccaneer’s Alley! Thieves’ Alley! Glory Alley! Street of tough guys, hot tunes, temptation… alive with love and larceny… courage and crime!’ Director Raoul Walsh’s 1952 New Orleans-set MGM black and white musical drama Glory Alley […]

Jul, 14 · in Uncategorized

The Spider *** (1931, Edmund Lowe, Lois Moran, El Brendel, John Arledge, George E Stone, Earle Foxe) – Classic Movie Review 11,387

THRILL to the most amazing mystery of your life as a lurid web is woven around the helpless victims of… EDMUND LOWE in THE SPIDER (1931). Directors William Cameron Menzies and Kenneth MacKenna’s intricate, imaginatively […]

Jul, 13 · in Uncategorized

Year of the Comet ** (1992, Tim Daly, Penelope Ann Miller, Louis Jourdan) – Classic Movie Review 11,386

Director Peter Yates’s 1992 romantic adventure comedy thriller film Year of the Comet follows a chase around the 1811 most valuable bottle of wine in history, and stars Tim Daly, Penelope Ann Miller, and Louis […]

Jul, 13

Roommates ** (1995, Peter Falk, D B Sweeney, Julianne Moore, Ellen Burstyn) – Classic Movie Review 11,385

Peter Falk’s Oscar-nominated aging makeup in Roommates (1995) took four hours a day to apply and remove. ‘Some people talk. Some people listen. When you’re 107 and going strong, you do whatever you want.’ Director […]

Jul, 12

Curtain Call [It All Came True] *** (1998, James Spader, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith, Polly Walker, Sam Shepard, Buck Henry, Frank Whaley) – Classic Movie Review 11,384

Curtain up on director Peter Yates’s slick and entertaining 1998 supernatural romantic comedy Curtain Call spotlighting a hapless publisher (James Spader) who buys a long-uninhabited Manhattan townhouse and is haunted by the bickering ghosts of […]

Jul, 12

A Separate Peace *** (2004, J Barton, Toby Moore, Jacob Pitts, Danny Swerdlow, Hume Cronyn) – Classic Movie Review 11,383

Peter Yates’s final film remakes A Separate Peace from the 1959 novel by John Knowles. Director Peter Yates’s 2004 Canadian coming-of-age drama A Separate Peace is a welcome TV movie remake of Larry Pearce’s 1972 […]

Jul, 12

The Angel Levine *** (1970, Zero Mostel, Harry Belafonte, Ida Kaminska, Milo O’Shea, Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 11,382

Zero Mostel and Harry Belafonte are superb in the sentimental 1970 drama The Angel Levine, based on a short story by Bernard Malamud. Director Jan Kadar’s sentimental 1970 drama The Angel Levine is based on […]

Jul, 11

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