Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

Romance of a Horsethief [Romansa konjokradice] ** (1971, Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Jane Birkin) – Classic Movie Review 9475

Director Abraham Polonsky’s 1971 adventure Romance of a Horsethief [Romansa konjokradice] [Le Roman d’un Voleur de Chevaux] is a little-seen, virtually ignored box-office flop. Based on a story by Joseph Opatoshu, it is a Jewish […]

Mar, 07

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here **** (1969, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Robert Blake, Susan Clark) – Classic Movie Review 9,474

The undervalued 1969 anti-Western film Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here stars Robert Redford and tells the real-life tale of a Western manhunt in 1909. As director or screenwriter, witch-hunt victim Abraham Polonsky was the […]

Mar, 07

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon **** (1970, Liza Minnelli, Ken Howard, Robert Moore, Kay Thompson, Leonard Frey, James Coco, Wayne Tippit, Guy Sorel) – Classic Movie Review 9473

Director Otto Preminger tugs determinedly at the heartstrings, and, despite the odd slip into sentimentality and plot contrivance, gets through to the target in his beguilingly sweet and sensitive 1970 drama Tell Me That You […]

Mar, 07

The Teahouse of the August Moon *** (1956, Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Machiko Kyô, Eddie Albert, Paul Ford, Harry Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 9,472

Marlon Brando stars in the awkward 1956 comedy drama film The Teahouse of the August Moon about US troops confronting Oriental culture in Okinawa. Brando shows a rare comic touch, but it is very uncomfortable […]

Mar, 07

Teen Wolf Too * (1987, Jason Bateman, Kim Darby, John Astin, Paul Sand) – Classic Movie Review 9471

The 18-year-old Jason Bateman takes over from Michael J Fox as his character Scott Howard’s college boxing werewolf cousin Todd Howard, a struggling teenager who turns into a wolf, in director Christopher Leitch’s 1987 Teen […]

Mar, 07

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