Derek Winnert

The White Crow **** (2018, Oleg Ivenko, Ralph Fiennes, Louis Hofmann) – Movie Review

Whether emoting or dancing, Oleg Ivenko is mesmerising as Rudolf Nureyev in director Ralph Fiennes’s intense, multi-layered story of the Russian dancer’s defection to the West. How he dances! He hardly looks like Nureyev, really, […]

Apr, 02 · in Reviews

Billy Jack *** (1971, Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, Clark Howat) – Classic Movie Review 8324

Tom Laughlin writes, directs and stars in this once radical and significant, but now very dated and rather hollow-seeming 1971 hippie-era anti establishment drama about a half Native American Vietnam vet wandering round Texas harassed […]

Apr, 01 · in Reviews

Unman, Wittering and Zigo *** (1971, David Hemmings, Carolyn Seymour, Douglas Wilmer) – Classic Movie Review 8323

Director John Mackenzie’s engagingly weird 1971 British thriller Unman, Wittering and Zigo stars David Hemmings, Douglas Wilmer, Hamilton Dyce, Carolyn Seymour and Tony Haygarth. Giles Cooper’s Fifties British radio and TV play about a new […]

Apr, 01

Mr Moto Takes a Chance *** (1938, Peter Lorre, Rochelle Hudson, Robert Kent) – Classic Movie Review 8322

The fourth movie in Peter Lorre’s enjoyable Mr Moto casebook. Director Norman Foster’s 1938 crime thriller Mr Moto Takes a Chance is the fourth in the enjoyable casebook series of eight films starring Peter Lorre as […]

Apr, 01

Mr Moto Takes a Vacation *** (1939, Peter Lorre, Joseph Schildkraut, Lionel Atwill) – Classic Movie Review 8321

Director Norman Foster’s 1939 20th Century Fox black and white crime thriller Mr Moto Takes a Vacation is the eighth and last release in Peter Lorre’s enjoyable casebook, as the oriental detective Mr Moto sets […]

Apr, 01

Mr Majestyk **** (1974, Charles Bronson, Linda Cristal, Al Lettieri, Lee Purcell, Paul Koslo) – Classic Movie Review 8,320

The 1974 film Mr Majestyk is one of Charles Bronson’s most effective action thrillers thanks to Richard Fleischer’s buzzing direction and Elmore Leonard’s hard-nosed original screenplay. The 1974 film Mr Majestyk is one of Charles […]

Apr, 01

Voyage of the Damned *** (1976, Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Lee Grant, Sam Wanamaker, Lynne Frederick, Katharine Ross, Max von Sydow, James Mason, Malcolm McDowell) – Classic Movie Review 8319

Director Stuart Rosenberg’s honourable 1976 wartime drama Voyage of the Damned was nominated for three Oscars: Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Lee Grant), Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Steve Shagan […]

Apr, 01

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