Derek Winnert

BlacKkKlansman **** (2018, John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, Topher Grace) – Movie Review

BlacKkKlansman is provocative, powerful, damning, and real scary. Spike Lee is on best fighting form, making his 70s-set story relevant, delivered with a mastery of film-making skills. Director Spike Lee’s 2018 BlacKkKlansman is provocative, powerful, […]

Aug, 21 · in Reviews

The Children Act **** (2017, Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Fionn Whitehead) – Movie Review

I’m not one to judge, but the admirable and involving The Children Act (2017) has a lot going for it, not least Emma Thompson. The admirable and involving The Children Act (2017) has a lot going for […]

Aug, 21 · in Reviews

Double Dynamite ** (1951, Jane Russell, Groucho Marx, Frank Sinatra) – Classic Movie Review 7480

Director Irving Cummings Jr’s 1951 RKO Radio Pictures black and white musical comedy stars the formidable trio of Jane Russell, Groucho Marx and Frank Sinatra, and is based on a story by Leo Rosten, with a screenplay by by Leo […]

Aug, 21

No Name on the Bullet *** (1959, Audie Murphy, Charles Drake, Joan Evans) – Classic Movie Review 7,479

Jack Arnold’s tense, involving 1959 Western film No Name on the Bullet stars Audie Murphy as mystery killer John Gant, who rides into town to shoot an unknown human target. Director Jack Arnold’s 1959 American CinemaScope […]

Aug, 21

Barquero *** (1970, Lee Van Cleef, Warren Oates, Forrest Tucker, Mariette Hartley, Kerwin Mathews) – Classic Movie Review 7478

Director Gordon Douglas’s 1970 Barquero is a stylish and excitingly brutish attempt by the Americans to ape the Spaghetti Western style, with bald, grizzled star Lee Van Cleef as Travis, a spunky barge operator ferryman […]

Aug, 21

The Young Land ** (1959, Patrick Wayne, Yvonne Craig, Dennis Hopper, Dan O’Herlihy) – Classic Movie Review 7477

Director Ted Tetzlaff’s 1957 Western The Young Land re-tells that old chestnut story about the lawman Sheriff Jim Ellison (Patrick [Pat] Wayne) arresting a young, Caucasian American gunman Hatfield Carnes (Dennis Hopper) who has killed a Mexican […]

Aug, 20

The Young in Heart **** (1938, Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Paulette Goddard, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Minnie Dupree) – Classic Movie Review 7476

Director Richard Wallace’s 1938 The Young in Heart is a lovely, warm and very funny, typically Thirties-style screwball comedy about a family of likeable rogues, in this case loveable rogues. It is written by Paul […]

Aug, 20

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