Derek Winnert

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The Sinister Urge [The Young and the Immoral] * (1960, Kenne Duncan, Duke Moore, Jean Fontaine) – Classic Movie Review 5291

Kenne Duncan and Duke Moore play cops Lieutenant Matt Carson and Sergeant Randy Stone, who tackle a porn-flick scam, in another deliriously rotten exploitation picture from the world’s worst film-maker, writer-director, Edward Wood Jr. In […]

Apr, 15

La La Land **** (2016, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Amiée Conn, J K Simmons, Rosemarie DeWitt) – Movie Review

Writer-director Damien Chazelle’s 2016 comedy drama musical La La Land is a good and clever film, graced with two award-worthy performances from Ryan Gosling as struggling jazz pianist Seb and Emma Stone as Mia, the aspiring actress he falls […]

Oct, 20

Gypsy **** (1993, Bette Midler, Peter Riegert, Cynthia Gibb, Ed Asner) – Classic Movie Review 3556

The ideally cast Bette Midler, caught at about the right age of 47, is brilliantly vibrant and vivacious as the ultimate showbiz mother Mama Rose Hovick in producer-director Emile Ardolino’s 1993 welcome remake of all-time […]

Apr, 12

War of the Colossal Beast ** (1958, Duncan Dean Parkin, Sally Fraser, Roger Pace, Russ Bender, Rico Alaniz) – Classic Movie Review 2760

In 1958 director Bert I Gordon delivers a quite lively black-and-white science fiction sequel to his The Amazing Colossal Man (1957). It continues that movie’s storyline, but it was not marketed as a sequel and features […]

Jul, 31

The Reckless Moment ****½ (1949, James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 2143

Director Max Ophüls‘s uber-tense and super-stylish 1949 film noir suspense thriller is set in Balboa 50 miles from Los Angeles. It stars Joan Bennett as Lucia Harper, an American middle-class mother becomes increasingly deranged after she discovers […]

Feb, 01

Taken 3 *** (2014, Liam Neeson, Forest Whitaker, Maggie Grace) – Movie Review

Liam Neeson returns for a third and supposedly final time as ex-government operative Bryan Mills, who starts things off again in Los Angeles a couple of years after the events of part 2 in Istanbul […]

Jan, 06

Hector and the Search for Happiness * (2014, Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Toni Collette) – Movie Review

A tired-looking Simon Pegg plays menopausal psychiatrist Hector, who selfishly abandons his lovely girlfriend Clara (Rosamund Pike), whom he is very lucky to have, and searches the globe to find the secret of happiness. Though she’s […]

Aug, 14

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