Derek Winnert

Commando *** (1985, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Dan Hedaya) Classic Movie Review 9496

Director Mark L Lester’s time-passing Rambo-esque 1985 action thriller Commando is a pre-superstardom vehicle for Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is chucked together, in another of those odd-couple couplings, with Rae Dawn Chong on the trail of […]

Mar, 11 · in Reviews

Come Back Charleston Blue *** (1972, Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St Jacques, Peter De Anda) – Classic Movie Review 9495

Come Back Charleston Blue is an underrated blaxploitation comedy crime action thriller from the first (Seventies) wave of black movies. Director Mark Warren’s 1972 sequel to Cotton Comes to Harlem (based on the Chester Himes […]

Mar, 11 · in Reviews

Cotton Comes to Harlem *** (1970, Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St Jacques, Calvin Lockhart) – Classic Movie Review 9494

Director Ossie Davis’s 1970 comedy crime action thriller Cotton Comes to Harlem stars Godfrey Cambridge and Raymond St Jacques as black detectives Gravedigger Jones (Cambridge) and Coffin Ed Johnson (St Jacques). The two Harlem cops […]

Mar, 11

Ordinary Love ***** (2019, Lesley Manville, Liam Neeson, Amit Shah) – Movie Review

Lesley Manville is an absolute knockout as middle-aged English wife Joan, battling her breast cancer diagnosis, in the extraordinary 2019 drama Ordinary Love. Liam Neeson is tremendous in deeply loyal support of Manville, just as […]

Mar, 10

Misbehaviour *** (2020, Keira Knightley, Jessie Buckley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Rhys Ifans, Greg Kinnear, Lesley Manville, Keeley Hawes) – Movie Review

MISBEHAVIOUR is enjoyable and good. Keira Knightley is well employed as Sally Alexander and Rhys Ifans is very funny as Eric Morley. Director Philippa Lowthorpe’s historical drama Misbehaviour is enjoyable and good. It tells the […]

Mar, 10

I Accuse! ** (1958, José Ferrer, Anton Walbrook, Viveca Lindfors, Emlyn Williams, Leo Genn) – 2020 Classic Movie Review 9493

Director José Ferrer’s 1958 historical biographical drama I Accuse! tells the story of the 1894 Alfred Dreyfus treason case, in which the innocent Jewish French army captain is is falsely accused of spying for Germany […]

Mar, 10

Strictly Sinatra ** (2001, Ian Hart, Kelly Macdonald, Brian Cox, Alun Armstrong) – Classic Movie Review 9,492

Ian Hart from Liverpool manages a decent Scots accent and a nifty vocal impression of Frank Sinatra, as Toni Cocozza, a Scottish-Italian club crooner obsessed with Ol’ Blue Eyes, in writer-director Peter Capaldi’s 2001 British drama […]

Mar, 10

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