Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

French without Tears *** (1940, Ray Milland, Ellen Drew, Janine Darcey) – Classic Movie Review 7576

Terence Rattigan’s famous 1936 play about adult British pupils at a language cramming school in the south of France has lost a little wit on its way to the cinema. It follows the love affairs of […]

Sep, 15

Go West *** (1925, Buster Keaton, Howard Truesdale, Kathleen Myers) – Classic Movie Review 7575

Buster Keaton’s amiable and deservedly well liked 1925 silent comedy Go West finds the great comic homeless and friendless. So he puts all his possessions on his bed and drags it westwards to California, where he […]

Sep, 14

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