Derek Winnert

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse **** (2018, voices Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Nicolas Cage, Kimiko Glenn, John Mulaney, Liev Schreiber, Hailee Steinfeld, Lily Tomlin) – Movie Review

The live-action Marvel movies have become so CGI dependent that the studio has finally done the logical thing and gone the whole hog and dispensed with actors and sets altogether, and turned them into an […]

Nov, 29 · in Reviews

The Wild Ride *** (1960, Jack Nicholson, Georgianna Carter, Robert Bean) – Classic Movie Review 7851

Producer-director Harvey Berman’s 1960 The Wild Ride stars Jack Nicholson as rebellious Beat Generation punk Johnny Varron, an amateur dirt track driver, party boy and trouble maker. [Spoiler alert] Johnny is on the road to ruin. He kidnaps […]

Nov, 28 · in Reviews

Studs Lonigan ** (1960, Christopher Knight, Frank Gorshin, Venetia Stevenson, Jack Nicholson, Dick Foran) – Classic Movie Review 7850

Christopher Knight stars in the 1960 drama Studs Lonigan as the title’s character Studs Lonigan, an Irish immigrant who adapts to life on the streets of Chicago and in the beds of various women in […]

Nov, 28

Disobedience **** (2017, Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, Alessandro Nivola) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Sebastián Lelio’s 2017 lesbian romantic and religious drama Disobedience is engrossing and moving. It is intelligent and sympathetic. It is very well and quite subtly written by Sebastián Lelio and Rebecca Lenkiewicz, based on the […]

Nov, 28

The Cry Baby Killer ** (1958, Harry Lauter, Jack Nicholson, Carolyn Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 7,849

Producer Roger Corman’s 1958 teen exploitation film The Cry Baby Killer stars Jack Nicholson, who makes his promising début as a teenage juvenile delinquent at the age of 21. Director Justus Addiss’s 1958 teen exploitation film […]

Nov, 28

Flight to Fury ** (1964, Dewey Martin, Fay Spain, Jack Nicholson) – Classic Movie Review 7848

Director Monte Hellman and writer/ star Jack Nicholson shot the 1964 black and white adventure movie Flight to Fury on location in the Philippines together with their Back Door to Hell. In the story by Monte Hellman […]

Nov, 27

Back Door to Hell ** (1964, Jimmie Rodgers, Jack Nicholson, John Hackett) – Classic Movie Review 7,847

The 1964 black and white Back Door to Hell is a youthful partnership of director Monte Hellman and star Jack Nicholson in a war film about a World War Two Philippines mission by three US […]

Nov, 27

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