Derek Winnert

The Bravados **** (1958, Gregory Peck, Stephen Boyd, Joan Collins, Albert Salmi, Henry Silva) – Classic Movie Review 7248

Director Henry King’s 1958 revenge and redemption Western The Bravados stars Gregory Peck as grimly determined Jim Douglass, who sets out to find the escaped bad guys – four deadly in-laws – he thinks have […]

Jul, 05 · in Reviews

Mother Is a Freshman ** (1949, Loretta Young, Van Johnson, Rudy Vallee, Barbara Lawrence, Betty Lynn, Robert Arthur) – Classic Movie Review 7247

Director Lloyd Bacon’s gently amusing 1948 20th Century Fox comedy Mother Is a Freshman stars Loretta Young as a widowed mother who gets a scholarship left to her in a will, and so she and […]

Jul, 04 · in Reviews

Swimming with Men *** (2018, Rob Brydon, Rupert Graves, Jim Carter, Jane Horrocks, Charlotte Riley) – Movie Review

Swimming with Men is good natured and amusing, with a good idea and a nice, friendly cast. Liked it! Swimming with Men is hardly a great movie but it is good natured and amusing, with […]

Jul, 04

Whitney **** (2018, Whitney Houston, Bobbi Kristina Brown, Bobby Brown, Cissy Houston) – Movie Review

Loved it! Director Kevin Macdonald’s in-depth film Whitney is an extremely powerful and disturbing documentary telling the ultimately tragic story of chart-topping singer Whitney Houston, with marvellous archive footage and intimately revealing interviews. With access to the Houston […]

Jul, 04

Animal World [Dongwu shijie] *** (2018, Yi Feng Li, Dongyu Zhou, Michael Douglas) – Movie Review

They dress it up well, but this entire 132-minute Chinese thriller is based on a game of rock, paper, scissors. Now that is ingenious. Simple, slick and smart, Animal World [Dongwu shijie] is a winner. Yi […]

Jul, 03

Girl of the Night *** (1960, Anne Francis, Lloyd Nolan, Kay Medford, John Kerr) – Classic Movie Review 7246

Get ready for ‘An Exciting Step Forward Into a New Realm of Adult Motion Pictures!’ Director Joseph Cates’s interesting 1960 black and white Warner Bros call girl drama Girl of the Night stars Anne Francis, […]

Jul, 03

Otello **** (1986, Plácido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli, Justino Díaz) – Classic Movie Review 7245

Plácido Domingo is in great, wonderful voice as Otello the Moor in director Franco Zeffirelli’s Otello (1986), an imaginative, lavish and splendid looking film of the marvellous Giuseppe Verdi opera, based on Shakespeare’s tragedy play, […]

Jul, 03

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