Derek Winnert

Sweet Country **** (2017, Hamilton Morris, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, Matt Day, Ewen Leslie) – Movie Review

Sweet Country is a sweet racially charged Australian Western. Director Warwick Thornton’s obviously ironically named Australian Western, inspired by true events on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, stars Hamilton Morris as middle-aged Aboriginal […]

Mar, 08 · in Reviews

Ladies of Leisure *** (1930, Barbara Stanwyck, Lowell Sherman, Ralph Graves) – Classic Movie Review 6.778

Barbara Stanwyck plays a typical Thirties wisecracking, gold-digging model girl, in her first film with frequent director Frank Capra, the romantic drama Ladies of Leisure (1930). ‘ALL DIALOG DRAMA OF NEW YORK’S NITE LIFE. Zippy, […]

Mar, 07 · in Reviews

The Miracle Woman **** (1931, Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, Sam Hardy) – Classic Movie Review 6777

The 24-year-old Barbara Stanwyck works her own miracle, credibly playing Florence Fallon, a Bible bashing minister’s daughter who loses her faith and turns con-woman, a fake evangelist who pretends to heal sick folk to make […]

Mar, 07

The Bitter Tea of General Yen **** (1932, Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Walter Connolly, Toshia Mori) – Classic Movie Review 6776

‘The flaming drama of a forbidden love that wrecked an empire! ‘ ‘They found a love they dared not touch!’ Ah yes, great! Director Frank Capra’s sexy 1932 beauty-and-the-beast romantic melodrama stars Barbara Stanwyck as […]

Mar, 07

A Lost Lady * (1934, Barbara Stanwyck, Frank Morgan, Ricardo Cortez) – Classic Movie Review 6775

‘The Love Idyll of the Age!’ screams the poster but the movie is way less exciting. Director Alfred E Green’s 1934 drama A Lost Lady stars Barbara Stanwyck as Marian Ormsby, whose unfaithful fiancé is […]

Mar, 07

The Secret Bride * (1934, Barbara Stanwyck, Warren William, Glenda Farrell) – Classic Movie Review 6774

Director William Dieterle’s 1935 Warner Bros drama is interesting and short (at 64 minutes) but wordy, plodding and slow, and very disappointing considering the talent involved. The talky screenplay by Tom Buckingham, F Hugh Herbert and […]

Mar, 07

Game Night *** (2018, Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Kyle Chandler, Jesse Plemons, Sharon Horgan, Billy Magnussen) – Movie Review

Atoning for their horrible 2105 effort Vacation, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein are joint directors of the surprisingly fun and funny crime black comedy Game Night, in which a group of friends who meet for game nights […]

Mar, 06

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