Derek Winnert

West Point *** (1928, William Haines, Joan Crawford, William Bakewell) – Classic Movie Review 7639

Director Edward Sedgwick’s humorous black and white silent romantic drama movie West Point (1927) stars William Haines as wealthy, talented but arrogant sportsman Brice Wayne, who enters West Point and succeeds at football but alienates the other […]

Oct, 06 · in Reviews

Spring Fever *** (1927, William Haines, Joan Crawford, George K Arthur, George Fawcett)) – Classic Movie Review 7638

Director Edward Sedgwick’s amusing 1927 silent comedy Spring Fever, based on Vincent Lawrence’s 1925 play, stars William Haines and Joan Crawford in their second film together and in their first romantic teaming on screen. Haines plays a shipping clerk named […]

Oct, 05 · in Reviews

Venom ** (2018, Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Jenny Slate) – Movie Review

Casting good actors in a Marvel movie might seem like a good idea, but no acting is required in Venom (2018), just the ability to be there, run around, look tragic and, above all, look right. In […]

Oct, 04

El **** (1953, Arturo de Córdova, Delia Garcés, Aurora Walker, Manuel Dondé) – Classic Movie Review 7637

Director Luis Buñuel’s 1952 Mexican movie El (aka This Strange Passion, or Torments) stars Arturo de Córdova as the middle-aged, wealthy, suave and uptight Francisco Galván de Montemayor, who is consumed with paranoid, raging jealousy after […]

Oct, 04

March or Die *** (1977, Gene Hackman, Terence Hill, Catherine Deneuve, Max von Sydow, Ian Holm) – Classic Movie Review 7636

Director Dick Richards’s ambitious, meticulously made 1977 old-style adventure movie March or Die stars Gene Hackman, who takes top billing as troubled American French Foreign Legion veteran Major William Foster in a tale that might have […]

Oct, 04

The Guilty [Den skyldige] **** (2018, Jakob Cedergren, voice of Jessica Dinnage, Omar Shargawi) – Movie Review 

Gustav Möller’s 2018 film The Guilty is a commendably tense and creepy Danish noir thriller, set in the single location of a police station’s emergency telephone call centre. Co-writer/ director Gustav Möller’s 2018 film The […]

Oct, 03

El Condor ** (1970, Jim Brown, Lee Van Cleef, Patrick O’Neal) – Classic Movie Review 7635

Director John Guillermin’s rough and tough 1970 spaghetti Western El Condor stars Lee Van Cleef and Jim Brown, who play adventurers Jaroo and Luke planning to raid a heavily armed Mexican fortress, commanded by Chavez (Patrick O’Neal), and steal its rumoured […]

Oct, 03

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