Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

Ad Astra ** (2019, Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Donald Sutherland) – Movie Review

Ad Astra (2019) is a posh, great-looking space movie, with ambitions, but it is also slow and boring, and, in the end, much ado about nothing. It manages to pull off the rare trick of […]

Sep, 25

Danger Within [Breakout] *** (1959, Richard Todd, Bernard Lee, Michael Wilding, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Donald Houston, Peter Arne) – Classic Movie Review 8939

Director Don Chaffey’s 1959 British in black and white war movie drama Danger Within [Breakout] is old-fashioned (even in 1959) but still involving stuff, boosted by the reliably strong playing from stiff-lipped stalwarts Richard Todd, […]

Sep, 25

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