Derek Winnert

Runaway Train *** (1985, Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay) – Classic Movie Review 9481

Director Andrei Konchalovsky’s 1985 Cannon Group adventure movie Runaway Train is a solid but over-blown mythical action thriller, with outsize performances by Jon Voight and Eric Roberts as escaping prisoners on an out-of-control train speeding […]

Mar, 08 · in Reviews

4D Man *** (1959, Robert Lansing, Lee Meriwether, James Congdon) – Classic Movie Review 9480

Robert Lansing and James Congdon star as two brothers (research scientist Dr Scott Nelson and physicist Dr Tony Nelson) who develop an amplifier that allows someone to enter a 4-dimensional state and pass through solid surfaces, […]

Mar, 08 · in Reviews

Shakedown **** (1950, Howard Duff, Peggy Dow, Brian Donlevy, Lawrence Tierney, Bruce Bennett, Anne Vernon) – Classic Movie Review 9479

Director Joseph [Joe] Pevney’s 1950 Universal International Pictures black and white B-movie crime thriller Shakedown is a little gem of a movie in the best film noir crime drama tradition. Howard Duff plays unscrupulous Jack […]

Mar, 08

Runaway Daughters ** (1956, Marla English, Gloria Castillo, Mary Ellen Kay, Anna Sten, John Litel, Lance Fuller, Adele Jurgens) – Classic Movie Review 9478

Director Edward L Cahn’s melodramatic and unconvincing 1956 black and white crime drama Runaway Daughters stars Marla English, Gloria Castillo and Mary Ellen Kay as three teenage girls who go to Hollywood and get into […]

Mar, 08

The Runaway Bus *** (1954, Frankie Howerd, Margaret Rutherford, Petula Clark, George Coulouris) – Classic Movie Review 9,477

‘All Aboard for a Non-Stop Ride of Fun!’ Writer-producer-director Val Guest’s 1954 British black and white crime comedy film The Runaway Bus stars Frankie Howerd, Margaret Rutherford, Petula Clark and George Coulouris. London’s Heathrow Airport […]

Mar, 08

Four Brothers ** (2005, Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, André Benjamin, Garrett Hedlund) – Classic Movie Review 9476

Detroit really looks a no-go area in John Singleton’s exciting, violent 2005 B-movie thriller Four Brothers, with the actors fighting valiantly against their cypher roles and a script that forces them to act incredibly and […]

Mar, 08

Little Joe **** (2019, Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox, Kit Connor, Lindsay Duncan) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Jessica Hausner’s engrossing, unsettling and oddly disturbing posh horror fantasy mystery Little Joe (2019) is extremely smart and clever. It looks smart and its script is clever. The acting direction and production are […]

Mar, 07

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