Derek Winnert

White Woman (1933, Carole Lombard, Charles Laughton, Charles Bickford, Kent Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 10,747

Director Stuart Walker’s infamous 1933 American pre-Code black and white Paramount Pictures drama film White Woman stars Charles Laughton, Carole Lombard, Kent Taylor and Charles Bickford. Lombard plays nightclub singer Judith Denning, a young widow […]

Jan, 03 · in Reviews

Island of Lost Men *** (1939, Anna May Wong, J Carrol Naish, Anthony Quinn, Broderick Crawford, Eric Blore, Ernest Truex) – Classic Movie Review 10,746

Director Kurt Neumann’s 1939 black and white crime thriller film Island of Lost Men is a stock adventure yarn in which oriental daughter cabaret singer Kim Ling (Anna May Wong) discovers that her absconded Chinese […]

Jan, 03 · in Reviews

King of Chinatown *** (1939, Anna May Wong, Anthony Quinn, J Carrol Naish, Akim Tamiroff, Sidney Toler, Philip Ahn) – Classic Movie Review 10,745

Director Nick Grinde’s 1939 black and white crime thriller King of Chinatown is an intriguingly written, fast-moving and atmospheric mob story that rattles along thanks to effective performances and tough action scenes. Akim Tamiroff stars […]

Jan, 03

Real Men (1987, Jim Belushi, John Ritter, Barbara Barrie) – Classic Movie Review 10,744

Talented and likeable but variable comedic actors Jim Belushi [James Belushi] and John Ritter can’t get writer-director Dennis Feldman’s weird 1987 spy action comedy Real Men started, thanks to a lame script and a flat […]

Jan, 03

The Real McCoy * (1993, Kim Basinger, Val Kilmer, Terence Stamp) – Classic Movie Review 10,743

Director Russell Mulcahy’s 1993 film The Real McCoy stars Kim Basinger as Karen McCoy, an expert cat-burgling ex-con trying to go straight, who gets out of prison but is dragged back into a life of […]

Jan, 03

Real Life *** (1979, Albert Brooks, Dick Haynes, Matthew Tobin, Charles Grodin, Frances Lee McCain) – Classic Movie Review 10,742

The 1979 mockumentary film Real Life is a funny, inventive early comedy from the talented writer-director Albert Brooks, who also plays himself, a loathesome toad of a documentary film-maker recording the lives of an average […]

Jan, 03

Modern Romance *** (1981, Albert Brooks, Kathryn Harrold, Bruno Kirby, Jane Hallaren, Tyann Means) – Classic Movie Review 10,741

Unlikely renaissance man Albert Brooks co-writes, directs and stars in the funny, offbeat 1981 comedy Modern Romance about a compulsively neurotic movie editor called Robert Cole who cannot handle his fixation on beautiful, intelligent Mary […]

Jan, 02

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