Derek Winnert

The Dark Knight Rises ***** (2012, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy) – Classic Movie Review 5814

Following 2008’s The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan then made the final chapter of his trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, which was premiered in New York City on 16 July 2012 and released on 20 July […]

Jul, 26 · in Reviews

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn **** (1945, Peggy Ann Garner, James Dunn, Dorothy McGuire Joan Blondell, Lloyd Nolan, Ted Donaldson, James Gleason) – Classic Movie Review 5813

Director Elia Kazan’s warm, meticulous, fully-realised and believable 1945 movie re-creation of life in working-class Brooklyn in the early 1900s before World War One is based on Betty Smith’s novel. It centres on one Irish […]

Jul, 25 · in Reviews

True Crime ** (1995, Alicia Silverstone, Kevin Dillon, Bill Nunn) – Classic Movie Review 5812

Writer-director Pat Verducci’s 1995 low budget film is a savage and deeply unpleasant thriller on a very familiar theme. Alicia Silverstone stars as bright Catholic school teenager Mary Giordano, a high school senior who is hooked on […]

Jul, 25

True Confessions **** (1981, Robert Duvall, Robert De Niro, Charles Durning) – Classic Movie Review 5811

Director Ulu Grosbard’s fully-fleshed-out, stimulating and intelligent 1981 thriller is adapted from John Gregory Dunne’s novel about a Forties detective bent on solving the brutal murder case of a young prostitute, in a trail that […]

Jul, 25

The Merry Widow ** (1952, Fernando Lamas, Lana Turner, Richard Haydn, Una Merkel, Thomas Gomez, John Abbott, Marcel Dalio, King Donovan, Robert Coote) – Classic Movie Review 5810

Sadly, it is third time unlucky for MGM with this campy second remake of the Franz Lehár operetta The Merry Widow (following the 1925 silent The Merry Widow with Mae Murray and John Gilbert and The Merry […]

Jul, 24

The Merry Widow **** (1925, Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D’Arcy, Tully Marshall, Josephine Crowell, George Fawcett, Edward Connelly) – Classic Movie Review 5809

Co-writer/ director Erich von Stroheim 1925 silent MGM version of the famous Franz Lehar operetta Die Lustige Witwe is hugely successful and was a huge success. The wayward maverick director encourages Mae Murray’s classiest performance […]

Jul, 24

Head On **** (1998, Alex Dimitriades, Paul Capsis, Julian Garner, Elena Mandalis) – Classic Movie Review 5,808

The powerful and engaging 1998 Australian rites-of-passage movie Head On stars Alex Dimitriades as confused young outsider Ari, a repressed Aussie gay man of Greek descent living in inner city Melbourne. The well done, powerful, […]

Jul, 24

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