Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

Back from Eternity *** (1956, Robert Ryan, Anita Ekberg, Rod Steiger) – Classic Movie Review 7846

The 1956 black and white adventure thriller Back from Eternity tells a familiar tale but is actually a bigger budget remake by producer-director John Farrow of his admired 1939 hit Five Came Back, which starred […]

Nov, 27

Five Came Back **** (1939, Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, Wendy Barrie, John Carradine, Allen Jenkins, C Aubrey Smith) – Classic Movie Review 7845

Director John Farrow’s admired 1939 adventure melodrama Five Came Back stars Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, Wendy Barrie, John Carradine, Allen Jenkins and C Aubrey Smith, and is suspenseful and entertaining. Based on the story by […]

Nov, 27

Sands of the Kalahari *** (1965, Stanley Baker, Stuart Whitman, Harry Andrews, Susannah York, Theodore Bikel, Nigel Davenport) – Classic Movie Review 7844

Stanley Baker reunites with his Zulu writer-director Cy Endfield for this enjoyable enough, if samey, 1965 adventure yarn Sands of the Kalahari. It was old fashioned in 1965 when the movie scene had changed so much, […]

Nov, 27

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