Derek Winnert

The House with a Clock in Its Walls ** (2018, Jack Black, Cate Blanchett, Owen Vaccaro, Kyle MacLachlan) – Movie Review

With its thin, rather lame story, The House with a Clock in Its Walls is not great for adults but it is well produced in retro style, quite funny, quite scary, and ideal for its […]

Sep, 22 · in Reviews

Mile 22 ** (2018, Mark Wahlberg, Lauren Cohan, Iko Uwais, John Malkovich, Ronda Rousey) – Movie Review

Director Peter Berg’s well-made, impressively staged, visceral action movie thriller Mile 22 is not bad but no knockout and no classic. The 18 certificate for strong bloody violence is a warning. Mile 22 is super-intense. This movie […]

Sep, 22 · in Reviews

The Man Who Died Twice *** (1958, Rod Cameron, Vera Ralston, Mike Mazurki) – Classic Movie Review 7613

Director Joseph [Joe] Kane’s 1958 film noir crime drama The Man Who Died Twice stars Vera Ralston, who ended her career, aged 37, with this typically routine but brisk and complex black and white thriller […]

Sep, 21

Pushover **** (1954, Fred MacMurray, Kim Novak, Philip Carey, Dorothy Malone, E G Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 7,614

Richard Quine’s enjoyable 1954 film noir suspense thriller Pushover stars Fred MacMurray, but is perhaps most notable as a springboard to stardom for 20-year-old Kim Novak, in her first credited film. Director Richard Quine’s 1954 film […]

Sep, 21

5 Against the House **** (1955, Guy Madison, Kim Novak, Brian Keith, Alvy Moore, Kerwin Mathews, William Conrad) – Classic Movie Review 7612

Director Phil Karlson’s commendable 1955 black and white film noir crime thriller 5 Against the House is especially suspenseful and inventively written. It is notable as an early example of a filmed heist and depiction […]

Sep, 21

The Lineup **** (1958, Eli Wallach, Robert Keith, Warner Anderson, Richard Jaeckel, Emile Meyer) – Classic Movie Review 7611

Director Don Siegel’s taut, tough-toned and witty 1958 B-movie film noir police procedural crime thriller The Lineup, a big-screen version of the hit 1954-60 TV series The Lineup aka San Francisco Beat, is a credit […]

Sep, 21

Deadline – USA **** (1952, Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter, Martin Gabel, Ed Begley, Warren Stevens, Paul Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 7610

Writer-director Richard Brooks’s tremendous 1952 film noir crime drama Deadline – USA [aka Deadline] stars Humphrey Bogart as tough, crusading editor Ed Hutcheson, who sends his reporters to expose crime and corruption. However, the owner Margaret […]

Sep, 21

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