Derek Winnert

Swamp Water **** (1941, Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Virginia Gilmore, John Carradine, Eugene Pallette, Ward Bond) – Classic Movie Review 8976

Master French film-maker Jean Renoir’s 1941 American début Swamp Water [The Man Who Came Back], made while he was in wartime exile from German-occupied France, is an unusual, dramatic thriller, set in Georgia swamps, where […]

Oct, 12 · in Reviews

Fanny Lye Deliver’d **** (2019, Maxine Peake, Charles Dance, Freddie Fox, Tanya Reynolds) – Movie Review

Writer-director Thomas Clay’s labour of love Fanny Lye Deliver’d (2019) is a thinking person’s horror thriller set in Cromwell’s England on an isolated farm in Shropshire in 1657. You don’t get many thinking person’s horror […]

Oct, 12 · in Reviews

Problem Child (1990, John Ritter, Amy Yasbeck, Jack Warden, Michael Oliver) – Classic Movie Review 8975

Director Dennis Dugan’s 1990 family comedy Problem Child stars John Ritter and Amy Yasbeck as Ben Healy Jr and Flo Healy, a loving husband and his wacky wife who adopt a devilish seven-year-old orphan boy […]

Oct, 11

The Prodigal * (1955, Lana Turner, Edmund Purdom, Louis Calhern, James Mitchell, Joseph Wiseman, Cecil Kellaway, Walter Hampden) – Classic Movie Review 8974

Director Richard Thorpe’s hysterical, outrageous 1955 Eastmancolor and CinemaScope biblical epic The Prodigal makes only a passing nod at anything biblical and concentrates instead on exoticism, in this loose adaptation of Jesus Christ’s famous New Testament […]

Oct, 11

First Love [Hatsukoi] ** (2019, Masataka Kubota, Sakurako Konishi, Becky) – Movie Review

Masataka Kubota stars in director Takashi Miike’s romantic crime drama First Love [Hatsukoi] (2019) as young boxer Leo, who is unexpectedly knocked him out in the ring, setting him off on a chain of events […]

Oct, 11

Piranhas [La paranza dei bambini] **** (2019, Francesco Di Napoli, Viviana Aprea, Mattia Piano Del Balzo) – Movie Review

Francesco Di Napoli stars in co-writer/ director Claudio Giovannesi’s controversial Italian crime drama Piranhas [La paranza dei bambini] (2019) as 15-year-old Nicola, who leads a small gang of teenage boys on motorbikes through the streets […]

Oct, 10

The Last Hunt *** (1956, Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Debra Paget, Lloyd Nolan, Russ Tamblyn) – Classic Movie Review 8973

Writer-director Richard Brooks’s hard-hitting Western saga 1956 The Last Hunt stars Robert Taylor, cast effectively against type, as the sadistic buffalo-killer Charles ‘Charley’ Gilson in 1883 South Dakota. Stewart Granger plays his conscience-riddled buffalo hunter partner […]

Oct, 10

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