Derek Winnert

Pain and Glory [Dolor y Gloria] ***** (2019, Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Cecilia Roth, Julieta Serrano, Nora Navas, César Vicente) – Movie Review

Writer/ director Pedro Almodóvar’s reflective semi-autobiographical Pain and Glory [Dolor y Gloria] (2019) is tremendous, as near perfection as any film gets. Almodóvar is on great form in serious mode in one of his best […]

Aug, 25 · in Reviews

The House of the Seven Gables **** (1940, George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay, Vincent Price ) – Classic Movie Review 8,864

Universal Studios’ enjoyable 1940 black and white Gothic thriller melodrama film The House of the Seven Gables is based on the 1851 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and stars George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay and Vincent Price. […]

Aug, 24 · in Reviews

Hot Shots! Part Deux ***½ (1993, Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Valeria Golino, Richard Crenna) – Classic Movie Review 8863

Director Jim Abrahams’s 1993 Hot Shots! Part Deux brings back Charlie Sheen as Topper Harley when US president Tug Benson (Lloyd Bridges) sends a commando team into Iraq to rescue the men who went in […]

Aug, 24

Hot Shots! **** (1991, Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges, Kristy Swanson, Kevin Dunn, Jon Cryer, Efrem Zimbalist Jr, Bill Irwin) – Classic Movie Review 8862

Director Jim Abrahams’s 1991 Hot Shots! is an often hilarious Airplane!-style parody of Top Gun and all the other aviator movies (plus for good measure and for no particular reason Dances with Wolves, Gone with […]

Aug, 24

Hot Millions *** (1968, Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith, Karl Malden, Bob Newhart, Robert Morley, Cesar Romero) – Classic Movie Review 8,861

The 1968 British caper film Hot Millions is a cute, likeable comedy with delightful turns by Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith, Karl Malden, Bob Newhart, Robert Morley and Cesar Romero. Director Eric Till’s 1968 British caper film […]

Aug, 24

Crawl *** (2019, Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper, Morfydd Clark) – Movie Review

Director Alexandre Aja’s dark, gory and nasty horror movie Crawl (2019) has not a single laugh until after it is finished at the end credits, but it still manages to be a lot of unpleasant […]

Aug, 24

Overland Pacific *** (1954, Jock Mahoney, Peggie Castle, Adele Jergens) – Classic Movie Review 8,860

Director Fred F Sears’s neat and nifty little 1954 colour Western film Overland Pacific is busy, stalwart, decently plotted and quite well made, with two good star performances from Jock Mahoney and Peggie Castle. Jock […]

Aug, 23

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