Derek Winnert

A Doll’s House *** (1973, Claire Bloom, Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Richardson, Denholm Elliott, Anna Massey, Edith Evans) – Classic Movie Review 8437

Director Patrick Garland’s 1973 A Doll’s House was made hurriedly and released in Britain before Joseph Losey’s simultaneously made Jane Fonda version of A Doll’s House. It is a showcase for Claire Bloom, who re-creates […]

May, 06 · in Uncategorized

The Outside Man [Un Homme Est Mort] **** (1972, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ann-Margret, Roy Scheider, Angie Dickinson, Michel Constantin) – Classic Movie Review 8436

Writer-director Jacques Deray’s 1973 The Outside Man [Un Homme Est Mort] is a compelling and robust French gangland action crime thriller, set and filmed on location in Los Angeles, California, but also shot in the […]

May, 06 · in Uncategorized

The Curse of La Llorona ** (2019, Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz, Patricia Velasquez) – Movie Review

Director Michael Chaves’s 2019 supernatural horror thriller The Curse of La Llorona is a modestly scary and entertaining spin off from The Conjuring universe. It does not have a lot of credibility – how could […]

May, 05

Long Shot ** (2019, Charlize Theron, Seth Rogen, June Diane Raphael, Alexander Skarsgård) – Movie Review

Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen are pleasant company and well cast in the hit-and-miss 2019 romantic comedy Long Shot, in which Charlize plays Charlotte Field, who is standing as US President, and Seth plays out-of-work […]

May, 05

Tolkien *** (2019, Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Harry Gilby, Pam Ferris, Laura Donnelly, Colm Meaney) – Movie Review

Tolkien (2019) is a curate’s egg of a biographical drama film, with good scenes mixing uncomfortably with not such good ones. It stays interesting, though never fascinating, and this story of the young life of […]

May, 05

There Once Was a Cop [Il Etait une Fois un Flic…] [Cops Is Cops] *** (1972, Michel Constantin, Mireille Darc, Michel Lonsdale, Daniel Ivernel, Alain Delon) – Classic Movie Review 8,435

Michel Constantin stars in director Georges Lautner’s edgy, tough 1972 French police crime thriller Il Etait une Fois un Flic… as a bachelor police commissioner called Campana, who must act like a married man with […]

May, 05

Easy Down There! [Doucement les basses] [Take it Easy] ** (1971, Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, Paul Meurisse) – Classic Movie Review 8434

Husband and wife team (though by the time of this movie they were already divorced) Alain and Nathalie Delon star in director Jacques Deray’s rather disappointing 1971 attempt at a comedy Easy Down There! [Doucement […]

May, 05

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