Derek Winnert

County Lines **** (2019, Conrad Khan, Harris Dickinson, Ashley Madekwe, Marcus Rutherford) – Movie Review

Conrad Khan gives a startling, uber-confident turn as troubled 14-year-old London schoolboy Tyler, who becomes a drug courier for creepy older criminal Simon (Harris Dickinson), in writer-director Henry Blake’s equally confident and powerful feature debut […]

Oct, 08 · in Reviews

The Prizefighter and the Lady *** (1933, Myrna Loy, Max Baer, Primo Carnera) – Classic Movie Review 8968

Director W S Van Dyke’s 1933 romantic comedy crime drama The Prizefighter and the Lady stars real-life prizefighter Max Baer as the ex-sailor turned boxer hero Steve Morgan, while top-billed Myrna Loy plays bar star […]

Oct, 08 · in Reviews

And Then We Danced **** (2019, Levan Gelbakhiani, Bachi Valishvili, Ana Javakishvili, Giorgi Tsereteli) – Movie Review

Levan Gelbakhiani stars as Merab, a talented young dancer at the National Georgian Ensemble, whose world is rocked when the alluring Irakli (Bachi Valishvili) muscles in on the scene, in writer-director Levan Akin’s thoroughly enjoyable […]

Oct, 07

Shadow on the Wall *** (1950, Ann Sothern, Zachary Scott, Gigi Perreau, Nancy Davis) – Classic Movie Review 8967

Director Pat [Patrick] Jackson’s 1950 MGM black and white B-movie psychological thriller Shadow on the Wall is an involved and involving, if predictable, melodramatic psychodrama, distinguished with an early score by André Previn and smartly […]

Oct, 07

Impact **** (1949, Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn, Helen Walker) – Classic Movie Review 8,966

The highly impactful 1949 black and white film noir crime drama Impact stars Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn and Helen Walker. It is B-movie noir thriller film-making par excellence. Director Arthur Lubin’s highly impactful […]

Oct, 07

Gemini Man *** (Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen, Benedict Wong) – Movie Review

Director Ang Lee’s teasing and tantalising sci-fi action thriller Gemini Man offers great action, brilliant CGI, strong spy atmosphere, and two Will Smiths, one a retired hitman, Henry Brogan, and the other his younger clone […]

Oct, 07

Ceiling Zero *** (1936, James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, June Travis, Stuart Erwin, Barton MacLane) – Classic Movie Review 8965

Director Howard Hawks’s robust 1936 black and white civil aviation romantic adventure drama Ceiling Zero stars the ever bouncy James Cagney as a daredevil womanising pilot called Dizzy Davis, who pretends to have a heart […]

Oct, 06

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