Derek Winnert

Cuba *** (1979, Sean Connery, Brooke Adams, Jack Weston, Hector Elizondo, Chris Sarandon, Martin Balsam) -Classic Movie Review 8944

Director Richard Lester’s 1979 adventure Cuba stars Sean Connery as retired British army Major Robert Dapes, a mercenary who comes to Havana to serve as a military training adviser to the crumbling regime of General […]

Sep, 27 · in Reviews

The Crystal Ball *** (1943, Ray Milland, Paulette Goddard, Gladys George, Virginia Field, Cecil Kellaway, William Bendix, Ernest T ruex, Iris Adrian, Mary Fields) – Classic Movie Review 8943

Director Elliott Nugent’s playful 1943 Paramount picture The Crystal Ball is a likeably dizzy if underpowered comedy starring Paulette Goddard as Toni Gerard, a gal from Texas who loses out on a glamour contest (she […]

Sep, 27 · in Reviews

Cry, the Beloved Country **** (1951, Canada Lee, Sidney Poitier, Charles Carson, Joyce Carey, Geoffrey Keen, Michael Goodliffe) – Classic Movie Review 8942

Racial tensions in South Africa explode into violence as black preacher the Reverend Stephen Kumalo (Canada Lee)’s son kills white landowner James Jarvis (Charles Carson)’s boy, in director Zoltan Korda’s distinguished 1952 British drama Cry, […]

Sep, 26

Ready or Not (2019, Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O’Brien, Henry Czerny, Andie MacDowell, Melanie Scrofano) – Movie Review

Ready or not for Ready or Not? No, really not, so not. Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s 2019 lethal game horror movie Ready or Not is cheap and tawdry, bloody and disgusting, reaching a […]

Sep, 26

City Beneath the Sea [One Hour to Doomsday] ** (1971, Stuart Whitman, Robert Wagner, Rosemary Forsyth, Richard Basehart, Joseph Cotten, James Darren, Paul Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 8941

Director Irwin Allen’s lively 1971 sci-fi action adventure TV movie City Beneath the Sea is helped by lots of familiar television star faces (Stuart Whitman, Robert Wagner, Rosemary Forsyth) and movie stars on the way […]

Sep, 26

City Beneath the Sea ** (1953, Robert Ryan, Mala Powers, Anthony Quinn, Suzan Ball) – Classic Movie Review 8940

Director Budd Boetticher’s acceptable 1953 Technicolor underwater action adventure drama City Beneath the Sea stars Anthony Quinn and Robert Ryan as daredevil deep-sea divers Tony Bartlett and Brad Carlton arriving in Jamaica to salvage the […]

Sep, 26

The Kitchen *** (2019, Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, Elisabeth Moss, Domhnall Gleeson) – Movie Review

Writer-director Andrea Berloff’s devious 2019 mob movie The Kitchen starts out like Widows, with the three wives of gangsters in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen in the late Seventies, forced by being broke to operate their […]

Sep, 25

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