Derek Winnert

Freak Show *** (2017, Alex Lawther, AnnaSophia Robb, Abigail Breslin, Bette Midler, John McEnroe) – Movie Review

Sweet, funny and saying all the right stuff really well. Director Trudie Styler’s Freak Show is sweet and funny, and says all the right stuff really well. Alex Lawther gives a brave and great performance in […]

Jul, 14 · in Uncategorized

The Shuttered Room *** (1967, Oliver Reed, Gig Young, Carol Lynley, Flora Robson) – Classic Movie Review 7287

Director David Greene’s 1967 British-made chiller The Shuttered Room is a very acceptable film of H P Lovecraft’s spooky story of a husband and wife, Mike and Susannah (Gig Young, Carol Lynley) visiting the orphan […]

Jul, 13 · in Reviews

Guest Wife *** (1945, Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, Dick Foran) – Classic Movie Review 7286

‘It Takes A Smart Girl To Know Her Own Husband!’ Director Sam Wood’s bright and breezy 1945 black and white romantic comedy Guest Wife stars Claudette Colbert) as American small-town wife Mary Price, who upsets her bank […]

Jul, 13

Mission: Impossible – Fallout **** (2018, Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris, Angela Bassett, Vanessa Kirby, Alec Baldwin, Michelle Monaghan) – Movie Review

As you’ve probably gathered from all the ads and trailers, Tom Cruise is back for his sixth Mission: Impossible, starring once more as Ethan Hunt, who rejoins his sturdy, stalwart little IMF team of Ving […]

Jul, 13

The Guinea Pig [The Outsider] *** (1948, Richard Attenborough, Sheila Sim, Bernard Miles, Robert Flemyng, Cecil Trouncer, Joan Hickson) – Classic Movie Review 7285

Director Roy Boulting’s entertaining 1948 class drama The Guinea Pig (re-titled The Outsider in America) stars Richard Attenborough as 14-year-old Jack Read, the working-class son of London tobacconists Bernard Miles and Joan Hickson, who gets a […]

Jul, 12

Staying Alive ** (1983, John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes) – Classic Movie Review 7284

Director/co-writer Sylvester Stallone’s 1983 romantic musical drama Staying Alive comes up with a sequel to Saturday Night Fever for John Travolta, best described as Rocky meets A Chorus Line. It was a Golden Globe nominee […]

Jul, 12

Man to Man *** (1992, Tilda Swinton) – Classic Movie Review 7283

Filmed by director John Maybury in 1992 using what was then state-of-the-art digital video trickery, Man to Man stars the ever astonishing Tilda Swinton, who re-creates her acclaimed solo stage role as Ella Gericke, a […]

Jul, 12

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