Derek Winnert

Bombshell *** (2019, Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, John Lithgow) – Movie Review

Charlize Theron gives a knockout performance as top news anchor Megyn Kelly, one of group of super-confident women who take on Fox News head Roger Ailes, who apparently presided over a toxic atmosphere at the […]

Jan, 30 · in Reviews

A Pistol for Ringo [Una Pistola per Ringo] *** (1965, Giuliano Gemma, Fernando Sancho, Lorella De Luca, Nieves Navarro, Antonio Casas, George Martin) – Classic Movie Review 9324

Writer-director Duccio Tessari’s highly regarded spaghetti Western A Pistol for Ringo [Una Pistola per Ringo] (1965) stars Giuliano Gemma (credited as Montgomery Wood), Fernando Sancho, and Lorella De Luca (credited as Hally Hammond). Giuliano Gemma […]

Jan, 30 · in Reviews

Day of Atonement [Le Grand Pardon II] ** (1992, Roger Hanin, Christopher Walken, Richard Berry, Gérard Darmon) – Classic Movie Review 9323

Christopher Walken enlivens director Alexandre Arcady’s basic, gory 18 certificate 1992 French Mafia action thriller Day of Atonement [Le Grand Pardon II] as Pasco Meisner. Arcady’s sequel to his 1982 Le Grand Pardon is set […]

Jan, 30

Day of Anger [I Giorni dell’ira] **** (1967, Lee Van Cleef, Giuliano Gemma, Walter Rilla) – Classic Movie Review 9322

Director Tonino Valerii’s excellent spaghetti action Western Day of Anger [I Giorni dell’ira] (1967) stars Lee Van Cleef, Giuliano Gemma and Walter Rilla. Giuliano Gemma plays Scott Mary, garbage boy and toilet cleaner in the […]

Jan, 30

Deathsport * (1978, David Carradine, Claudia Jennings, Richard Lynch) – Classic Movie Review 9321

Directors Nicholas Niciphor [Henry Suso] and Allan Arkush’s futuristic 1978 science fiction B-movie Deathsport is the much less exciting, much less amusing, much less successful follow-up to Death Race 2000, with motorcycles instead of cars. David […]

Jan, 29

Cannonball [Carquake] *** (1976, David Carradine, Bill McKinney, Veronica Hamel) – Classic Movie Review 9320

Co-writer/ director Paul Bartel’s 1976 Cannonball [Carquake] is a follow-up in similar action vein to his 1975 hit Death Race 2000, this time a full-on Seventies-style slap-up comedy action adventure about the ruthless people, chiefly Coy […]

Jan, 29

Come Fill the Cup *** (1951, James Cagney, Phyllis Thaxter, Gig Young, Raymond Massey, James Gleason) – Classic Movie Review 9319

James Cagney gives a powerful, yet well-controlled performance as a newsman called Lew Marsh fighting alcoholism, in director Gordon Douglas’s involving 1951 study of the evils of drink, Come Fill the Cup, based on a […]

Jan, 29

@wpshower

Feeds

Susbscribe to our awesome Blog Feed or Comments Feed