Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

Danger Signal *** (1945, Faye Emerson, Zachary Scott, Richard Erdman, Mona Freeman) – Classic Movie Review 8938

The 1945 film noir crime melodrama Danger Signal stars the splendidly shifty-looking Zachary Scott as a smooth-talking psychopathic career killer.  Director Robert Florey’s 1945 Warner Bros black and white film noir crime melodrama Danger Signal […]

Sep, 25

The Revengers ** (1972, William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Woody Strode, Susan Hayward) – Classic Movie Review 8937

Director Daniel Mann’s 1972 Western movie The Revengers stars William Holden and Ernest Borgnine, who reassemble from the 1969 The Wild Bunch for another in the long line of Westerns that tries to cash in […]

Sep, 24

Lisa and the Devil [Lisa e il diavolo] *** (1973, Telly Savalas, Elke Sommer, Alida Valli, Sylva Koscina) – Classic Movie Review 8936

Italian horror maestro Mario Bava directed his horror film Lisa and the Devil [Lisa e il diavolo] (1973) in Spain between 10 September and 28 November 1972, though it was never properly released as there […]

Sep, 24

The Lion ** (1962, William Holden, Trevor Howard, Capucine, Pamela Franklin) – Classic Movie Review 8935

Director Jack Cardiff’s 1962 romantic action adventure drama The Lion stars William Holden as American lawyer Robert Hayward, who goes to Africa to visit his ex-wife Christine (Capucine) on a wildlife reserve in Kenya, where […]

Sep, 24

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