Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "detective"

Check out all of the posts tagged with "detective".

Miss Marple: The Body in the Library **** (1984, Joan Hickson, Gwen Watford, Moray Watson, Valentine Dyall, Jess Conrad) – Classic Movie Review 9,607

The 1984 TV mini-series Miss Marple: The Body in the Library stars the brilliant Joan Hickson, who takes on her first case as the BBC’s Miss Marple in a UK TV show that filmed all […]

Apr, 06

Détective *** (1985, Claude Brasseur, Nathalie Baye, Johnny Hallyday, Laurent Terzieff, Aurelle Doazan, Jean-Pierre Léaud) – Classic Movie Review 9510

Jean-Luc Godard’s jokey, peculiar 1985 French thriller Détective about four groups of people meeting in a Paris grand hotel, where a murder was committed two years before, is, as expected, provocative, progressive and experimental. Godard […]

Mar, 15

Bad Boys for Life ** (2020, Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Jacob Scipio, Alexander Ludwig, Vanessa Hudgens) – Movie Review

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are on lively, fair form as Detective Mike Lowrey and Detective Marcus Burnett in directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah’s slick, confident but violent, unrealistic and overlong third Bad […]

Jan, 19

Trade Winds *** (1938, Fredric March, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy, Thomas Mitchell, Ann Sothern) – Classic Movie Review 9253

Director Tay Garnett’s 1938 comedy murder mystery Trade Winds stars Fredric March as hard-bitten former detective investigator Sam Wye, who is sent to head off to the Orient by Police Commissioner Blackton (Thomas Mitchell) to […]

Jan, 11

Nobody Runs Forever [The High Commissioner] * (1968, Rod Taylor, Christopher Plummer, Lilli Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 9129

Director Ralph Thomas’s 1968 Nobody Runs Forever [The High Commissioner] stars Rod Taylor as Australian police detective Sergeant Scobie Malone, who is sent to London to investigate the dodgy death of the first wife of […]

Dec, 05

21 Bridges ** (2019, Chadwick Boseman, Sienna Miller, J K Simmons, Stephan James, Taylor Kitsch, Keith David) – Movie Review

Chadwick Boseman stars in director Brian Kirk’s run-of-the-mill crime thriller 21 Bridges as gun-happy NYPD detective Andre Davis, who leads the Manhattan manhunt for a pair of cop killer robbers (Stephan James, Taylor Kitsch), after […]

Dec, 01

Shadows Over Chinatown * (1946, Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Victor Sen Yung) – Classic Movie Review 9067

Director Terry Morse’s 1946 thriller Shadows over Chinatown is an especially feeble Charlie Chan entry as Earl Derr Biggers’s oriental detective Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) searches for a missing young woman, Mary Conover (Tanis Chandler), […]

Nov, 13

Navigation

Please use the navigation to move within this section.