Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Uncategorized

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

Angel on the Amazon [Drums Along the Amazon] * (1948, George Brent, Vera Ralston, Brian Aherne, Constance Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 11,381

‘A Woman Cursed With Eternal Youth! The sullen killer of the jungles… and the woman who knew no fear! The story of their meeting and the strange events that followed!’: Angel on the Amazon [Drums […]

Jul, 11

Angel on My Shoulder **** (1946, Paul Muni, Claude Rains, Anne Baxter) – Classic Movie Review 11,380

Director Archie Mayo’s 1946 fantasy drama film Angel on My Shoulder is based on a story by Harry Segall, and stars Paul Muni, Claude Rains and Anne Baxter. Angels and devils were popular in the […]

Jul, 10

Conspirator * (1949, Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Flemyng, Harold Warrender, Honor Blackman, Marjorie Fielding, Thora Hird) – Classic Movie Review 11,379

Director Victor Saville’s undistinguished 1949 American-British film noir suspense espionage crime thriller film Conspirator stars Robert Taylor as British Guards officer Major Michael Curragh, who is a Russian Communist spy (you can tell because he […]

Jul, 10

Conspiracy Theory ** (1997, Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 11,378

Director Richard Donner’s 1997 American political action thriller Conspiracy Theory stars Mel Gibson as an eccentric New York cab driver, Jerry Fletcher, convinced that every event, object and coincidence warns of conspiracy, and that he is the […]

Jul, 10

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