Derek Winnert

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The Big Combo **** (1955, Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy, Jean Wallace) – Classic Movie Review 2,569

Joseph H Lewis’s classic 1955 B-movie film noir thriller The Big Combo is ultra-tough for its day. It pushed a few boundaries and got into censorship problems with its slant on a regulation tale about […]

Jun, 07

Force of Evil ***** (1948, John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor) – Classic Movie Review 2556

Co-writer/director Abraham Polonsky’s dynamic, first-rate 1948 film noir crime thriller stars John Garfield, who gives a superlative performance as Joe Morse, a gangster’s attorney who lets his greed overcome his sense of morality. Morse is […]

Jun, 06

Anti-Social *** (2015, Gregg Sulkin, Meghan Markle, Josh Myers) – Movie Review

Writer-director Reg Traviss’s London gangster thriller is quite exciting, well-constructed and stylish, with some thrillingly staged smash and grab sequences. Gregg Sulkin stars as Dee is an anarchic street-artist confronting the system, Josh Myers plays his […]

Apr, 29

The Mask **** (1994, Jim Carrey, Cameron Diaz, Peter Riegert) – Classic Movie Review 2311

Director Charles Russell’s 1994 comedy gave Jim Carrey his then best chance to shine to date as mild-mannered bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss, who puts on a mysterious ancient mask and goes from zero to hero […]

Mar, 25

John Wick **** (2014, Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Willem Dafoe, Adrianne Palicki, John Leguizamo, Ian McShane) – Classic Movie Review 2,286

Keanu Reeves stars in the 2014 action thriller film as the ex-hitman John Wick, who comes out of retirement to fight a one-man war against the gangsters who steal his car and kill his dog, […]

Mar, 20

Love Me or Leave Me ***** (1955, Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 2211

Director Charles Vidor’s 1955 musical drama Love Me or Leave Me is a brilliantly spirited, acidic-flavoured, fictionalised biopic of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting. Her fraught life, tricky career and tempestuous relationship with […]

Feb, 24

The Racket **** (1951, Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan, Ray Collins, William Talman) – Classic Movie Review 2,166

The tough and gritty 1951 film noir crime thriller The Racket boasts a great cast headed by stars Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott and Robert Ryan. Director John Cromwell’s tough and gritty 1951 gangster thriller The […]

Feb, 11

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