Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

The Life of Jimmy Dolan ** (1933, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Loretta Young, Aline MacMahon, Guy Kibbee) – Classic Movie Review 8024

Director Archie Mayo’s 1933 Warner Bros black and white romantic drama The Life of Jimmy Dolan [The Kid’s Last Fight in GB] stars Douglas Fairbanks Jr, who comes out on fighting form and gives an […]

Jan, 16

Espionage Agent ** (1939, Joel McCrea, Brenda Marshall, Jeffrey Lynn, George Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 8020

A pleasant cast assembles for director Lloyd Bacon’s 1939 Espionage Agent, a once timely but now just low-voltage-seeming black and white paranoia espionage suspense thriller about Nazi spy rings taking over in the American heartlands […]

Jan, 16

Confessions of a Nazi Spy ***½ (1939, Edward G Robinson, Francis Lederer, Paul Lukas, George Sanders, Henry O’Neill) – Classic Movie Review 8,023

Warner Brothers take on the Hun in director Anatole Litvak’s 1939 American spy political thriller film Confessions of a Nazi Spy, a timely exposé of Nazis at work in America just before the Second World […]

Jan, 16

Castle on the Hudson [Years Without Days] ** (1940, John Garfield, Ann Sheridan, Pat O’Brien, Burgess Meredith, Henry O’Neill, Jerome Cowan) – Classic Movie Review 8022

John Garfield enjoys an acting field day as mobster Tommy Gordon, the gem-crook gangster who refuses to participate in a Sing Sing prison break because it is his unlucky day, in director Anatole Litvak’s 1940 […]

Jan, 16

London Suite [Neil Simon’s London Suite] * (1996, Kelsey Grammer, Michael Richards, Julia Louis-Dreyfus) – Classic Movie Review 8021

A very good cast is dreadfully wasted in director Jay Sandrich’s naff, turgid and woeful 1996 comedy London Suite, an adaptation of Neil Simon’s follow-up to his hilarious plays and films California Suite and Plaza […]

Jan, 16

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