Derek Winnert

Interlude *** (1957, June Allyson, Rossano Brazzi, Marianne Koch, Françoise Rosay, Keith Andes) – Classic Movie Review 6671

Douglas Sirk directs this heady 1957 four-hankie, majorly tear-jerking romantic melodrama, a remake of the 1939 hit When Tomorrow Comes, with Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer, based on the original story A Modern Cinderella by James M Cain, […]

Feb, 10 · in Reviews

Battle Hymn ***½ (1957, Rock Hudson, Martha Hyer, Dan Duryea, Anna Kashfi, Don DeFore, Jock Mahoney, Alan Hale Jr) – Classic Movie Review 6,670

Douglas Sirk’s lavish, sentimental, flag-waving 1957 American war film stars Rock Hudson as Lt Colonel Dean Hess, a real-life US fighter pilot in the Korean War who helped to evacuate hundreds of war orphans to safety. Director […]

Feb, 10 · in Reviews

A Time to Love and a Time to Die **** (1958, John Gavin, Liselotte Pulver, Jock Mahoney, Keenan Wynn) – Classic Movie Review 6669

John Gavin made two films with German-born director Douglas Sirk in the late Fifties – A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958) and Imitation of Life (1959) – that greatly raised his profile. Gavin won […]

Feb, 10

The Best Man **** (1964, Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Edie Adams, Lee Tracy, Margaret Leighton, Kevin McCarthy, Shelley Berman, Ann Sothern) – Classic Movie Review 6668

Director Franklin J Schaffner’s outstanding 1964 film stars Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Lee Tracy, Margaret Leighton, Edie Adams, Kevin McCarthy, Shelley Berman and Ann Sothern. Tracy was Oscar nominated as Best Actor in a Supporting Role. […]

Feb, 09

The Master **** (2012, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams) – Classic Movie Review 6667

Joaquin Phoenix stars in The Master (2012) as Freddie Quell, a World War Two US naval veteran having trouble integrating back into civilian life and undergoing a series of breakdowns. This leads him to being drawn to […]

Feb, 09

Fifty Shades Freed * (2018, Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Eric Johnson) – Movie Review

The final chapter in the Shades of Grey trilogy is the worst, both tame and lame.  The sex is tame and the personal and ‘thriller’ plots are lame. Sequelitis has set in big time, doing major damage. The […]

Feb, 09

Music Box **** (1989, Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Frederic Forrest) – Classic Movie Review 6666

Director Constantin Costa-Gavras’s 1989 thriller Music Box stars Jessica Lange as successful  American attorney Ann Talbot, who is shocked and devastated when her loving, hardworking, patriotic Hungarian immigrant father Mike Laszlo (Armin Mueller-Stahl) is accused […]

Feb, 09

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