Derek Winnert

Free Solo **** (2018, Alex Honnold, Dierdre Wolownick, Tommy Caldwell, Jimmy Chin, Sanni McCandless) – Movie Review

Free Solo (2018) is an exhilarating, nail-biting, penetrating, revealing documentary on the weird life and times of rock climbing phenomenon Alex Honnold. It is nominated for one Oscar for Best Documentary Feature (for Jimmy Chin, […]

Jan, 28 · in Reviews

The Queen of Babylon [La Cortigiana di Babilonia] ** (1954, Rhonda Fleming, Ricardo Montalban, Roldano Lupi, Carlo Ninchi) – Classic Movie Review 8070

Co-writer/ director Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia’s fluffy, flashy, good-looking, nicely done Italian 1954 international spectacle The Queen of Babylon [La Cortigiana di Babilonia] is made in glorious colour (Ferraniacolor), which has the benefit of doing full […]

Jan, 28 · in Reviews

Nefertite, Regina del Nilo [Queen of the Nile] *** (1961, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Edmund Purdom, Amedeo Nazzari, Liana Orfei, Carlo D’Angelo, Clelia Matania) – Classic Movie Review 8069

Co-writer/ director Fernando Cerchio’s 1961 Italian sword-and-sandal historical drama epic Nefertite, Regina del Nilo [Queen of the Nile] stars Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price and Edmund Purdom, who in 1954 had starred in The Egyptian, which has a similar […]

Jan, 28

Quebec ** (1951, John Drew Barrymore, Corinne Calvet, Barbara Rush, Patric Knowles, John Hoyt, Arnold Moss, Don Haggerty) – Classic Movie Review 8068

Director George Templeton’s 1951 romantic historical adventure Quebec is silly, unpersuasive costumed tosh located during the 1830s Canadian battle for independence from Britain. The emphasis is on a soapy personal story in which the governor’s […]

Jan, 27

Queen of the Amazons ** (1947, Robert Lowery, Patricia Morison, J Edward Bromberg, John Miljan) – Classic Movie Review 8067

Director Edward F Finney’s campy, low-budget 1947 poverty row adventure film Queen of the Amazons stars Robert Lowery, Patricia Morison and J Edward Bromberg. Made in black and white by Edward F Finney Productions, and released by Screen Guild Productions, […]

Jan, 27

Escape Room * (2019, Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Jay Ellis, Yorick van Wageningen, Tyler Labine, Deborah Ann Woll and Nik Dodani) – Movie Review

Escape Room is watchable but it’s a cliched story, the acting is pretty bad, and the movie is pretty bad too. Six really boring strangers are given boxes and find themselves in mystery rooms, and […]

Jan, 27

Tarzan Goes to India ** (1962, Jock Mahoney, Leo Gordon, Mark Dana) – Classic Movie Review 8066

Producer Sy Weintraub took over the Tarzan franchise from Sol Lesser with Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure in 1959 and Tarzan the Magnificent (1960), and gave it a bright new look in colour, reviving the series, and now gives it […]

Jan, 27

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