Derek Winnert

Three Identical Strangers **** (2018, Eddy Galland, David Kellman, Robert Shafran) – Movie Review

Director Tim Wardle’s documentary biography Three Identical Strangers (2018) tells a fascinating, well-researched investigative story, as a happy accidental encounter in 1980 New York leading to a uniting of adult identical triplets separated at birth turns […]

Nov, 06 · in Reviews

Dead in a Week: Or Your Money Back *** (2018, Tom Wilkinson, Aneurin Barnard, Christopher Eccleston, Marion Bailey) – Movie Review

Writer-director Tom Edmunds’s Dead in a Week: Or Your Money Back is a well acted, constantly amusing, often funny British black comedy thriller, with plenty of quirky ideas and just the right tone and attitudes. […]

Nov, 06 · in Reviews

The Last Posse * (1953, Broderick Crawford, John Derek, Charles Bickford, Wanda Hendrix, Warner Anderson, Henry Hull, Will Wright, Tom Powers) – Classic Movie Review 7759

Director Alfred L Werker’s 1953 Columbia black and white Western film The Last Posse stars Broderick Crawford as Sheriff John Frazier, who leads a bickering posse on the trail of three vicious thieves. Despite a […]

Nov, 05

Tomorrow Never Comes ** (1978, Oliver Reed, Susan George, Raymond Burr, John Ireland, Donald Pleasence) – Classic Movie Review 7758

Director Peter Collinson’s well-cast but unambitious crime melodrama 1977 Tomorrow Never Comes is an unofficially reworked variant on the 1947 American thriller The Long Night, itself a remake of the 1939 Jean Gabin French classic […]

Nov, 05

The Admirable Crichton [Paradise Lagoon] **** (1957, Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil Parker, Sally Ann Howes) – Classic Movie Review 7,757

Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil Parker and Sally Ann Howes star in director Lewis Gilbert’s amusing 1957 British south seas adventure comedy romance film The Admirable Crichton, based on J M Barrie’s 1902 play. Director […]

Nov, 05

The Long Night ** (1947, Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price, Ann Dvorak) – Classic Movie Review 7756

  Using the original screenplay by Jacques Viot as a basis, director Anatole Litvak remakes the 1939 Jean Gabin French classic Le Jour se Lève [Daybreak] to much lesser effect in his 1947 RKO black […]

Nov, 05

Pathfinder [Ofelaš] ***** (1987, Mikkel Gaup, Ingvald Guttorm, Nils Utsi, Helgi Skúlason, Henrik H Buljo) – Classic Movie Review 7,755

Nils Gaup’s 1988 Pathfinder [Ofelaš] is a thrilling and hypnotic Norwegian adventure film, a mix of violent action and Lapp legend. Writer-director Nils Gaup’s 1988 Pathfinder [Ofelaš] is a thrilling and hypnotic Norwegian adventure film, […]

Nov, 04

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