Derek Winnert

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil ** (2019, Angelina Jolie, Michelle Pfeiffer, Elle Fanning, Harris Dickinson, Sam Riley, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ed Skrein, Robert Lindsay) – Movie Review

Angelina Jolie looks magnificent as Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019) but it’s a no-acting-required type of role, with her dialogue spare and sparce. As the movie is a CGI fest, they could just as well […]

Oct, 25 · in Reviews

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing *** (1955, Ray Milland, Joan Collins, Farley Granger) – Classic Movie Review 9020

The 1955 love triangle thriller The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing is an atmospheric evocation of a 1906 New York murder scandal. Marilyn Monroe turned the film down and was put on suspension before […]

Oct, 25 · in Reviews

Tom, Dick and Harry **** (1941, Ginger Rogers, George Murphy, Alan Marshal, Burgess Meredith, Phil Silvers) – Classic Movie Review 9019

Director Garson Kanin’s 1941 RKO romantic comedy Tom, Dick and Harry stars Ginger Rogers as telephonist Janie, who has the opportunity to choose one of three eligible bachelors: humble car salesman Tom (George Murphy), rich […]

Oct, 25

Tracks *** (1976, Dennis Hopper, Taryn Power, Dean Stockwell) – Classic Movie Review 9018

Writer-director Henry Jaglom’s 1976 drama Tracks stars Dennis Hopper as Vietnam veteran sergeant Jack Falen, who accompanies the funeral casket of a dead comrade in arms on an epic train journey across the US to […]

Oct, 25

The Trap ** (1946, Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Victor Sen Yung) – Classic Movie Review 9017

Sadly, Sidney Toler’s reign as Charlie Chan and his film career ended with a rather dull, thudding whimper with director Howard Bretherton’s 1946 comedy crime mystery The Trap, a slackly handled story of strangulations and revenge […]

Oct, 24

Official Secrets **** (2019, Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode, Ralph Fiennes) – Movie Review

Keira Knightley is well cast and on excellent form in Official Secrets (2019) as British Intelligence whistle-blower Katharine Gun, who leaked to the British press a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying […]

Oct, 24

The Trap *** (1959, Richard Widmark, Lee J Cobb, Tina Louise, Earl Holliman) – Classic Movie Review 9016

Co-writer/ co-producer/ director Norman Panama’s 1959 action crime thriller The Trap [The Baited Trap] stars Lee J Cobb as low-life law-breaker Victor Massonetti, a wanted mobster who is attempting to hide from the cops before […]

Oct, 24

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