Derek Winnert

Stuber * (2019, Dave Bautista, Kumail Nanjiani, Iko Uwais, Mira Sorvino) – Movie Review

The contrived crime action comedy Stuber is loud, brash, fast paced and dynamic, but dismayingly disagreeable and unappealing, violent and vulgar. The action is violent and the comedy is vulgar. An Uber driver comedy is, marginally, […]

Jul, 20 · in Reviews

Dédée d’Anvers [Woman of Antwerp] ***** (1948, Simone Signoret, Marcello Pagliero, Bernard Blier, Marcel Dalio) – Classic Movie Review 8740

Simone Signoret makes her first big mark in French cinema with her role in director Yves Allégret’s 1948 Dédée d’Anvers [Woman of Antwerp] as the Antwerp hooker Dédée, who is enthralled by an Italian sailor, […]

Jul, 20 · in Reviews

The Deep **** (1977, Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Robert Shaw, Louis Gossett Jr, Eli Wallach, Dick Anthony Williams) – Classic Movie Review 8,739

The 1977 adventure film The Deep may be tremendously shallow, but that’s good, right? Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte and Robert Shaw star in a great fun movie based on Peter Benchley’s 1976 deep sea hokum […]

Jul, 20

The Sweet Ride *** (1968, Tony Franciosa, Michael Sarrazin, Jacqueline Bisset, Bob Denver) – Classic Movie Review 8738

Director Harvey Hart’s appealing 1968 The Sweet Ride features some of the aimless late-Swinging Sixties beach boys and girls of California’s sun-soaked Malibu coast, who don’t want to grow up, though events conspire to teach […]

Jul, 20

Pink Floyd: The Wall *** (1982, Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, Bob Hoskins, James Laurenson) – Classic Movie Review 8737

Director Alan Parker’s 1982 film Pink Floyd: The Wall, a visual interpretation of Pink Floyd’s massive-selling concept album, is an overblown, much too literal view of the descent into madness of a rock star called […]

Jul, 20
The Diary of a Chambermaid *** (1946, Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Hurd Hatfield, Reginald Owen, Judith Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 8736

The Diary of a Chambermaid *** (1946, Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Hurd Hatfield, Reginald Owen, Judith Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 8736

Jean Renoir’s 1946 Hollywood version of Octave Mirbeau’s bourgeois-knocking novel about a grasping chambermaid hovers uncertainly between burlesque and tragedy but gives the performers the eagerly grabbed chance for a field day of brio acting. […]

Jul, 20

Diary of a Madman *** (1963, Vincent Price, Nancy Kovack, Chris Warfield, Stephen Roberts, Elaine Devry, Ian Wolfe) – Classic Movie Review 8735

An evil spirit called the Horla (voice of Joseph Ruskin) possesses 19th-century French judge and sculptor Magistrate Simon Cordier (played by Vincent Price), who graduates from killing his pet canary to his model Odette Mallotte […]

Jul, 19

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