Derek Winnert

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Absence of Malice **** (1981, Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban, Melinda Dillon, Luther Adler, Barry Primus, Josef Sommer) – Classic Movie Review 5036

Sydney Pollack’s complex and satisfying 1981 thriller film Absence of Malice stars Sally Field as a naïve reporter tricked by the FBI into framing a Miami liquor wholesaler (Paul Newman) with a false story. Producer-director […]

Feb, 20

Mystery of the Wax Museum **** (1933, Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh) – Classic Movie Review 5,024

The gruesomely atmospheric 1933 horror film Mystery of the Wax Museum stars Lionel Atwill as Ivan Igor, the scarred museum owner with human wax-covered models. The beautiful restoration of the two-colour Technicolor film reveals it […]

Feb, 13

Undersea Girl * (1957, Mara Corday, Pat Conway, Dan Seymour, Florence Marly) – Classic Movie Review 4957

Mara Corday, Pat Conway and Dan Seymour star as a reporter, a US Navy investigator and a police lieutenant who join the hunt for loot stashed undersea in a scuttled vessel in director John Peyser’s […]

Jan, 28

Front Page Woman *** (1935, Bette Davis, George Brent, Roscoe Karns, Winifred Shaw, J Carrol Naish) – Classic Movie Review 4907

Bette Davis and George Brent star as reporters for rival newspapers, agony aunt Ellen Garfield and ace scoop-hound Curt Devlin, trying to outwit each other when their respective editors send them on the same big fire […]

Jan, 18

Zodiac **** (2007, Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr, Mark Ruffalo) – Classic Movie Review 4,715

Jake Gyllenhaal stars in the chilling 2007 thriller film Zodiac as real-life San Francisco newspaper cartoonist Robert Graysmith, who becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the 1970s Zodiac serial killer. Jake Gyllenhaal stars in […]

Nov, 28

The Gamma People ** (1956, Paul Douglas, Eva Bartok, Leslie Phillips, Walter Rilla) – Classic Movie Review 4415

John Gilling’s interesting and elaborate 1956 British sci-fi movie The Gamma People stars Walter Rilla as crazy scientist Boronski, who is attempting to create a stream of brilliant children by blasting them with gamma rays. […]

Sep, 26

Nashville ***** (1975, Ned Beatty, Ronee Blakley, Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Henry Gibson, Michael Murphy, Lily Tomlin, Geraldine Chaplin, Barbara Harris) – Classic Movie Review 4174

Director Robert Altman’s brilliant, many-faceted 1975 kaleidoscopic satirical musical comedy multi-drama Nashville, centred on the town of Nashville’s fund-raising country music concert, is one of this great director’s finest films. There were five Oscar nominations […]

Aug, 15

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