Derek Winnert

The Monster of Piedras Blancas ** (1959, Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis, John Harmon) – Classic Movie Review 8093

Director Irvin Berwick’s 1959 horror movie The Monster of Piedras Blancas stars Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis and John Harmon. In writer H Haile Chace’s screenplay, a newly widowed lighthouse keeper called Sturges (Harmon) puts out […]

Feb, 05 · in Reviews
All Is True *** (2018, Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen) – Movie Review

All Is True *** (2018, Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen) – Movie Review

Director Kenneth Branagh’s All Is True (2018) is a thoroughly enjoyable, bitter-sweet look the troubled final days of William Shakespeare. It is a good, honourable, solid, old-fashioned film – the kind the Brits ought to […]

Feb, 04 · in Reviews

Q & A **** (1990, Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton, Armand Assante) – Classic Movie Review 8092

Nick Nolte gives a spellbinding performance as a raging New York cop called Mike Brennan under investigation by nice young assistant district attorney Al Reilly (Timothy Hutton) for killing a Hispanic drug dealer in writer-director […]

Feb, 04

Quadrophenia **** (1979, Phil Daniels, Mark Wingett, Philip Davis, Leslie Ash, Garry Cooper, Toyah Willcox, Daniel Peacock, Sting) – Classic Movie Review 8091

Director Franc Roddam’s 1979 The Who movie Quadrophenia is a successful and enjoyable trip back to the mods versus rockers seaside scraps of the mid-Sixties, with excellent performances from the rising young stars Phil Daniels, […]

Feb, 03

Tarzan the Tiger *** (1929, Frank Merrill, Natalie Kingston, Al Ferguson, Lillian Worth) – Movie Review 8090

Director Henry MacRae’s 1929 Tarzan the Tiger is a creaky but fascinating early talkie serial in 15 parts or chapters, in which the Ape Man battles slave traders to bring Jane to safety. It is […]

Feb, 03

Tarzan and the Lost City **(1998, Casper Van Dien, Jane March, Steven Waddington) – Classic Movie Review 8089

Director Carl Schenkel’s 1998 Village Roadshow/ Warner Bros old-fashioned American action adventure Tarzan and the Lost City stars Casper Van Dien, Jane March and Steven Waddington. It is shot in South Africa. Van Dien is an amiable presence, and looks […]

Feb, 02

Alita: Battle Angel **** (2019, Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Keean Johnson, Mahershala Ali, Eiza González) – Movie Review

As brought to us by the brilliantly creative minds at Weta Digital, a digital performance capture version of Rosa Salazar stars as the cybernetic character Alita in director Robert Rodriguez’s thoroughly entertaining romantic sci-fi action, adventure, Alita: Battle Angel. […]

Feb, 02

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