Derek Winnert

Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects ** (1989, Charles Bronson, Juan Fernández, Perry Lopez, Peggy Lipton) – Classic Movie Review 8464

In 1988, Peggy Lipton made her big-screen comeback after a long absence, and a year later co-starred opposite Charles Bronson in J Lee Thompson’s 1989 tough action thriller Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989). Bronson is on the […]

May, 13 · in Reviews

The Legend of Lylah Clare ** (1968, Kim Novak, Peter Finch, Ernest Borgnine) – Classic Movie Review 8463

The 1968 drama The Legend of Lylah Clare is an unloved, bizarre and unbelievable film from director Robert Aldrich, in which a sexy starlet (Kim Novak) is supposed to be the dead ringer for a […]

May, 13 · in Reviews

Amazing Grace ** (2018, Aretha Franklin, James Cleveland) – Movie Review

Director Sydney Pollack was totally inexperienced in shooting any kind of music documentary when he directed the fascinating music documentary Amazing Grace (2018) that documents the two nights in Watts, Los Angeles in January 1972 when […]

May, 13

Sinful Davey *** (1969, John Hurt, Pamela Franklin, Nigel Davenport) – Classic Movie Review 8462

Director John Huston’s light-hearted, sexy, humorous 1969 comedy period adventure romp Sinful Davey finds the great director on one of his more careless days, or at least carefree days, and it is the actors and […]

May, 12

The Ship That Died of Shame [PT Raiders] *** (1955, Richard Attenborough, George Baker, Bill Owen, Virginia McKenna) – Classic Movie Review 8461

When World War Two is over, the crew of a gunboat buy their old boat and run smuggled goods across the English Channel into Britain, in director Basil Dearden’s 1955 Ealing Studios black and white […]

May, 12

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ** (1992, Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Mädchen Amick, David Bowie, Miguel Ferrer, Peggy Lipton) – Classic Movie Review 8460

David Lynch’s smart if baffling cinematic prequel to his legendary TV series Twin Peaks (1990) shows the last week in the life of the murdered Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) and her friend (Moira Kelly). It is […]

May, 12

Shockproof *** (1949, Cornel Wilde, Patricia Knight, John Baragrey) – Classic Movie Review 8,459

Douglas Sirk’s smart film noir thriller Shockproof stars Cornel Wilde as a parole officer inveigled into a damaging affair with a murderess ex-convict (Patricia Knight). Sam Fuller writes the screenplay for the married stars. Director […]

May, 12

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