Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "drugs"

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The White Storm 2: Drug Lords *** (2019, Andy Lau, Louis Koo, Kiu Wai Miu, Chrissie Chau) – Movie Review

Director Herman Yau’s high-octane 2019 Chinese gangster action thriller The White Storm 2: Drug Lords is robust, dynamic and exciting, with the execution more original and impressive than the story, plotting and characters, perhaps inevitably, as […]

Jul, 14

Booksmart * (2019, Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein, Jessica Williams, Skyler Gisondo) – Movie Review

The 2019 film Booksmart motors on fast-talking, fast-moving smart and sassy energy. Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein play besties Amy and Molly to the full-on max. If this is the American booksmart Class of ’19, […]

May, 24

Mother, Jugs & Speed *** (1976, Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch, Harvey Keitel, Allen Garfield, Bruce Davison, L Q Jones, Larry Hagman) – Classic Movie Review 8465

The 1976 comedy drama film Mother, Jugs and Speed stars the unlikely trio of Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch and Harvey Keitel as paramedics working for a privately owned Los Angeles ambulance company. Director Peter Yates’s […]

May, 14

The Legend of Lylah Clare ** (1968, Kim Novak, Peter Finch, Ernest Borgnine) – Classic Movie Review 8463

The 1968 drama The Legend of Lylah Clare is an unloved, bizarre and unbelievable film from director Robert Aldrich, in which a sexy starlet (Kim Novak) is supposed to be the dead ringer for a […]

May, 13

Puppet on a Chain ** (1971, Sven-Bertil Taube, Barbara Parkins, Alexander Knox, Patrick Allen, Vladek Sheybal) – Classic Movie Review 8379

Director Geoffrey Reeve’s 1971 British thriller Puppet on a Chain is the always-popular macho action movie, based on the novel by Alistair MacLean, in which spies root out drug runners in Amsterdam, giving an obvious […]

Apr, 18

Stakeout on Dope Street *** (1958, Yale Wexler, Jonathan Haze, Steven Marlo, Abby Dalton) – Classic Movie Review 8369

The 1958 crime drama Stakeout on Dope Street is an interesting, still relevant fable for the late-Fifties times from the Roger Corman pool of Fifties youthful talent. Indeed the film was financed by the ever-canny […]

Apr, 16

Interpol [Pickup Alley] ** (1957, Victor Mature, Anita Ekberg, Trevor Howard, Bonar Colleano, Marne Maitland, Eric Pohlmann, Sydney Tafler, Sidney James, Lionel Murton, Danny Green, Yana) – Classic Movie Review 8013

Director John Gilling’s rather pedestrian and plodding 1957 British black and white action thriller Interpol [Pickup Alley] has few surprises and little atmosphere, but it is distinguished by the dominating presence of Trevor Howard, who […]

Jan, 14

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