Derek Winnert

Joker *** (2019, Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Todd Phillips’s neo noir origins story Joker is smart and sophisticated, slick and strong, proficient, powerful and pungent, but it is also incredibly nasty, dislikeable and unpleasant. A full-on horror movie portrait of […]

Oct, 05 · in Reviews

Wounds (2019, Armie Hammer, Dakota Johnson, Zazie Beetz, Karl Glusman, Brad William Henke) – Movie Review

Oh Armie Hammer! He finds himself stranded in writer-director Babak Anvari’s going-nowhere horror mystery dud Wounds (2019), based on The Visible Filth, a horror novella by Nathan Ballingrud. Yet he gives is his all as […]

Oct, 05 · in Uncategorized

Monsoon **** (2019, Henry Golding, Parker Sawyers, David Tran, Molly Harris) – Movie Review

Henry Golding gives a tender portrayal of a man trying to reconnect with the place he once called home in Hong Khaou’s poignant meditation on cultural displacement. Writer-director Hong Khaou’s second feature film Monsoon (2019) […]

Oct, 04

Judy ** (2019, Renée Zellweger, Jessie Buckley, Finn Wittrock, Rufus Sewell, Michael Gambon) – Movie Review

Throwing herself into the 2019 movie star biopic Judy to the max, Renée Zellweger gives an impressively showy, over-twitchy, mannered performance as Judy Garland, who comes in London in the winter of 1968 to perform […]

Oct, 04

Honeymoon in Bali *** (1939, Fred MacMurray, Madeleine Carroll, Allan Jones, Akim Tamiroff) – Classic Movie Review 8962

Director Edward H Griffith’s 1939 Paramount Pictures screwball comedy music romance movie Honeymoon in Bali quickly reunites Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray, the stars of the same year’s hit Cafe Society, along with its director, […]

Oct, 03

Cafe Society *** (1939, Madeleine Carroll, Fred MacMurray, Shirley Ross, Claude Gillingwater, Jessie Ralph, Allyn Joslyn) – Classic Movie Review 8961

Director Edward H Griffith’s amusing 1939 screwball romantic comedy Cafe Society stars Fred MacMurray, who is paired in the first of four films with luscious blonde Madeleine Carroll, who plays a headstrong member of wealthy […]

Oct, 03

Let No Man Write My Epitaph * (1960, Burl Ives, Shelley Winters, James Darren, Jean Seberg, Ricardo Montalban, Ella Fitzgerald, Rodolfo Acosta, Philip Ober) – Classic Movie Review 8960

Director Philip Leacock’s disappointing 1960 drama sequel Let No Man Write My Epitaph is a rather sleazy, tatty and threadbare melodrama about Nick Romano Jr (James Darren), a tenement boy from Chicago’s wrong side of […]

Oct, 03

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