Derek Winnert

Tomahawk ** (1951, Van Heflin, Yvonne De Carlo, Alex Nicol) – Classic Movie Review 7579

Director George Sherman’s 1951 Universal International Pictures movie Tomahawk (aka The Battle of Powder River) is a fairly lively Western, set in Wyoming in the 1860s, and based on (or suggested by) a story by Daniel […]

Sep, 15 · in Reviews

Wichita *** (1955, Joel McCrea, Vera Miles, Lloyd Bridges, Wallace Ford, Edgar Buchanan, Peter Graves, John Smith) – Classic Movie Review 7578

‘Gateway to the West … Doorway to Hell!’ That is Wichita, the place. Wichita, the film is supposedly ‘The incredible but true story of WYATT EARP!’ Director Jacques Tourneur’s 1955 Western film Wichita stars reliable […]

Sep, 15 · in Reviews

Tomahawk Trail ** (1957, Chuck Connors, John Smith, Susan Cummings, Lisa Montell, Harry Dean Stanton) – Classic Movie Review 7577

In David Chandler’s screenplay from a story by Gerald Drayson Adams, a US Cavalry Sergeant relieves his incompetent lieutenant Jonathan Davenport (George N Neise) of command of a patrol after he has led the patrol into an Apache ambush […]

Sep, 15

Lucky **** (2017, Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Ron Livingston, Ed Begley, Tom Skerritt, James Darren) – Movie Review

The legendary star character actor Harry Dean Stanton stars in director John Carroll Lynch’s splendidly quirky 2017 bitter-sweet comedy drama as 90-year-old atheist Lucky, a no-messing US Navy veteran living successfully alone in an oddball […]

Sep, 15

Crazy Rich Asians * (2018, Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh) – Movie Review

Director Jon M Chu’s ghastly romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians was an unexpected runaway hit in America, its success based on the source global bestseller by Kevin Kwan. It is Mills and Boon’s finest. I’m guessing […]

Sep, 15

King of Thieves *** (2018, Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, Jim Broadbent, Ray Winstone, Paul Whitehouse, Michael Gambon, Charlie Cox) – Movie Review

 The 2018 crime thriller film King of Thieves stars national treasure Michael Caine as Brian Reader, who masterminds the infamous real-life Hatton Garden Robbery. Director James Marsh’s real-life crime thriller film King of Thieves (2018) […]

Sep, 15

The Predator * (2018, Boyd Holbrook, Olivia Munn, Trevante Rhodes, Jacob Tremblay, Thomas Jane, Alfie Allen, Keegan-Michael Key) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Shane Black’s The Predator is just no good, telling a plodding, uninvolving new story boringly set in the streets of small-town suburbia, with uninteresting, underdeveloped characters, a motley crew of unfascinating actors, sadistic violence, […]

Sep, 15

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