Derek Winnert

A Blueprint for Murder *** (1953, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Gary Merrill) – Classic Movie Review 8983

Writer-director Andrew L Stone’s satisfyingly labyrinthine 1953 film noir crime thriller A Blueprint for Murder stars Joseph Cotten as Whitney ‘Cam’ Cameron, who sets out to find the killer of his brother and niece by […]

Oct, 15 · in Reviews

The Day Shall Come (2019, Marchánt Davis, Anna Kendrick, Denis O’Hare, Andrel McPherson, Miles Robbins, Kayvan Novak) – Movie Review

Marchánt Davis stars in the 2019 crime comedy The Day Shall Come as poor, nutty Miami projects preacher Moses, who is offered an arms deal for the cash to save his family from eviction by […]

Oct, 15 · in Reviews

The Party and the Guests [O slavnosti a hostech] **** (1966, Ivan Vyskocil, Jan Klusák, Jiri Nemec) – Classic Movie Review 8982

All the guests at a garden picnic party during a day’s outing in the countryside keep telling one another that they are having fun, except one unhappy man who goes away chased by the others, […]

Oct, 15

Party Girl **** (1958, Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J Cobb, John Ireland, Kent Smith, Claire Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 8981

Director Nicholas Ray’s 1958 film noir gangster thriller Party Girl has a lot to offer: a gripping story (by Leo Katcher), a great mood and atmosphere, and fine performances, with acting lightweights Robert Taylor and […]

Oct, 14

Une Partie de Plaisir [Pleasure Party] [Pleasure Game] *** (1975, Paul Gégauff, Danièle Gégauff, Clémence Gégauff, Paula Moore, Giancarlo Sisti) – Classic Movie Review 8980

Director Claude Chabrol’s 1975 Une Partie de Plaisir [Pleasure Party] [Pleasure Game] [Love Match] is a study of an apparently idyllic and blissful but actually disastrous marriage that takes a dark, cynical and bleak view […]

Oct, 14

Une Partie de Campagne [A Day in the Country] ***** (1946, Sylvia Bataille, Jane Marken, Georges D’Arnoux) – Classic Movie Review 8979

Director Jean Renoir’s delightful 1946 French short feature film Une Partie de Campagne [A Day in the Country] – poetic, humorous and evocative – is a cinematic milestone. Set in 1860, Renoir’s carefully constructed, exquisitely […]

Oct, 13

Incitement *** (2019, Yehuda Nahari Halevi, Amitai Yaish, Anat Ravnitzki, Yoav Levi, Daniella Kertesz, Sivan Mast) – Movie Review

Director/ co-writer Yaron Zilberman’s insightful, expertly done psychological thriller Incitement (2019) details a series of profoundly disturbing personal and political events in the year leading up to the assassination of Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin […]

Oct, 13

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