Derek Winnert

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Pool of London ***½ (1951, Earl Cameron, Bonar Colleano, Susan Shaw, Renée Asherson, Moira Lister, Max Adrian, Joan Dowling, James Robertson Justice) – Classic Movie Review 4399

Director Basil Dearden’s vintage 1951 British black and white crime thriller Pool of London stars Earl Cameron as Johnny Lambert, a basically honest Jamaican seaman who gets up to his ears in his thieving American […]

Sep, 23

Deception * (2008, Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, Michelle Williams, Bruce Altman, Andrew Ginsburg) – Classic Movie Review 4341

Nerdy New York accountant Jonathan McQuarry (Ewan McGregor) meets slick lawyer Wyatt Bose (Hugh Jackman), who draws him an into the twilight world of an elite Manhattan dating club, where high fliers meet for no-strings […]

Sep, 11

Loophole *** (1981, Albert Finney, Martin Sheen, Susannah York, Colin Blakely, Robert Morley, Jonathan Pryce, Christopher Guard, Alfred Lynch) – Classic Movie Review 4188

Robbing a bank by burrowing through sewers to get to its vaults adds piquancy to this tolerably exciting, old-fashioned 1981 British bank vault heist thriller, with a sturdy star turn from Albert Finney as the […]

Aug, 17

Sneakers ***½ (1992, Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley, Mary McDonnell, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier, David Strathairn) – Classic Movie Review 4084

Co-writer/ director Phil Alden Robinson’s attractive 1992 hacker movie and heist thriller stars Robert Redford as Marty Bishop, who heads a team of high-tech experts hired by companies to penetrate and test their security systems. Two US […]

Jul, 25

Naked Paradise * (1957, Richard Denning, Beverly Garland, Lisa Montell, Leslie Bradley, Dick Miller, Jonathan Haze) – Classic Movie Review 3977

‘Temptation and terror… in a savage land of wild desire!’ Director Roger Corman’s 1957 Sunset Productions/ American International Pictures thriller stars Richard Denning and Beverly Garland as Duke Bradley and Max MacKenzie, with Lisa Montell as Lanai. It co-stars Leslie Bradley as gangster Zach […]

Jul, 05

Beast from Haunted Cave ** (1959, Michael Forest, Sheila Noonan, Frank Wolff) – Classic Movie Review 3919

Monte Hellman made his film directorial debut with Beast from Haunted Cave (1959). It is shot in Deadwood, South Dakota, and Lead, South Dakota, for its mine scenes after the local Chamber of Commerce offered financial incentives to […]

Jul, 02

Dead Presidents ** (1995, Larenz Tate, Keith David, Chris Tucker, Freddy Rodriguez) – Classic Movie Review 3814

Producer-directors Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes’s 1995 action crime thriller is set in The Bronx in the late Sixties. Three African American Vietnam veterans, ignored and neglected by society, plan to steal withdrawn dollar bills […]

Jun, 06

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