Derek Winnert

Easy Money ** (1983, Rodney Dangerfield, Joe Pesci, Geraldine Fitzgerald) – Classic Movie Review 8030

Director James Signorelli’s 1983 comedy Easy Money stars Rodney Dangerfield as Monty Capuletti, a grotesquely self-indulgent child portraitist who is left a huge inheritance by his immensely rich mother-in-law Mrs Monahan (Geraldine Fitzgerald) if he […]

Jan, 18 · in Reviews

Up the River *** (1930, Spencer Tracy, Warren Hymer, Claire Luce, Humphrey Bogart) – Classic Movie Review 8029

Director John Ford’s 1930 comedy crime drama Up the River is an amusing junior-league Ford prison comedy, with the main interest less in the original story by Maurine Dallas Watkins and the script than in the teaming of […]

Jan, 18 · in Reviews

The Life of Oharu [Saikaku Ichidai Onna] ***** (1952, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai, Toshirô Mifune, Toshiaki Konoe, Eitarô Shindô) – Classic Movie Review 8028

Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1952 The Life of Oharu [Saikaku Ichidai Onna] is a world cinema classic, with a remarkable performance by Kinuyo Tanaka as Oharu, a 17th-century samurai’s daughter who leads a life of […]

Jan, 18

Walker *** (1987, Ed Harris, Richard Masur, René Auberjonois, Marlee Matlin, Peter Boyle) – Classic Movie Review 8027

Director Alex Cox’s 1987 political adventure Walker is about a real-life 1850s American mercenary leader called William Walker (Ed Harris) who is funded to invade Nicaragua, join up with the liberal forces and defeat the corrupt […]

Jan, 18

The Oklahoman **½ (1957, Joel McCrea, Barbara Hale, Brad Dexter) – Classic Movie Review 8,026

Director Francis D Lyon’s sturdy 1957 American Western film for Allied Artists, The Oklahoman, stars Joel McCrea, Barbara Hale and Brad Dexter. It is attractively shot in CinemaScope and DeLuxe colour by Carl E Guthrie. […]

Jan, 17

Glass *** (2019, James McAvoy, Bruce Willis, Samuel L Jackson, Sarah Paulson, Anya Taylor-Joy, Spencer Treat Clark, Charlayne Woodard) -Movie Review

I’m going to make this a personal reaction as I think the 2019 chiller Glass is a Marmite movie. You like it or you don’t. That’s it. Either reaction is valid and reasonable. I really […]

Jan, 17

The First Texan *** (1956, Joel McCrea, Felicia Farr, Jeff Morrow) – Classic Movie Review 8025

Director Byron Haskin’s 1956 Technicolor and Cinemascope Western film The First Texan stars Joel McCrea, who gives a resolute performance, ageing effectively from callow youth to canny Texas president, in this entertaining biopic of East […]

Jan, 17

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