Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

A Prize of Gold *** (1955, Richard Widmark, Mai Zetterling, Nigel Patrick, George Cole, Donald Wolfit) – Classic Movie Review 8972

Director Mark Robson’s 1955 A Prize of Gold tells a story of spirited high jinks in post-war Berlin. It is produced by Irving Allen and Albert R Broccoli, who formed Warwick Films to produce films […]

Oct, 10

The Roots of Heaven ** (1958, Errol Flynn, Juliette Gréco, Trevor Howard, Eddie Albert, Orson Welles, Herbert Lom, Paul Lukas) – Classic Movie Review 8971

Director John Huston’s 1958 adventure drama The Roots of Heaven is a bumpy ride, in which the intelligent dialogue and messages (based on Romain Gary’s novel) take second place to mediocre adventure. It stars the […]

Oct, 09

Moffie ***** (2019, Kai Luke Brummer, Ryan de Villiers, Matthew Vey) – Movie Review

Oliver Hermanus’s beautiful yet brutal study of closeted homosexuality in the Apartheid-era military. Back in the bad old days of Apartheid and the early Eighties, Nicholas ‘Nick’ Van der Swart is a self-denying gay man […]

Oct, 09

The Barbarian and the Geisha ** (1958, John Wayne, Eiko Ando, Sam Jaffe) – Classic Movie Review 8970

Director John Huston’s 1958 romantic adventure drama The Barbarian and the Geisha stars John Wayne as Townsend Harris, the first US consul to Japan in 1856, who gradually wins respect of the local people, and […]

Oct, 09

It Had to Be You ** (1947, Ginger Rogers, Cornel Wilde, Percy Waram) – Classic Movie Review 8969

Directors Don Hartman and Rudolph Maté’s 1947 comedy It Had to be You stars Ginger Rogers as daffy Victoria Stafford, who leaves three grooms at the altar before dashing fireman Cornel Wilde drives her wild […]

Oct, 09

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