Derek Winnert

June Bride **** (1948, Bette Davis, Robert Montgomery, Fay Bainter, Tom Tully, Betty Lynn, Debbie Reynolds) – Classic Movie Review 5,735

Bette Davis tries a useful change of pace with the 1948 film June Bride, a cute romantic comedy about a woman’s magazine editor who gets her chauvinist old flame, reporter Robert Montgomery, to help her […]

Jul, 09 · in Reviews

Jungle Jim *** (1948, Johnny Weissmuller, Virginia Grey, George Reeves) – Classic Movie Review 5734

Johnny Weissmuller, who had retired after 16 years as the screen’s most famous Tarzan, stars in the first low-budget adventure in Columbia Pictures’ 16-film Jungle Jim series (1948-55). Weissmuller’s Jungle Jim sets off with scientist Hilary […]

Jul, 09 · in Reviews

AntiTrust ** (2001, Ryan Phillippe, Claire Forlani, Rachel Leigh Cook, Tim Robbins) – Classic Movie Review 5733

Ryan Phillippe and Claire Forlani star as a pair of computer wiz-kids who become embroiled in the murky world of ruthless business practices. Director Peter Howitt’s 2001 movie is a feisty but highly improbable thriller, […]

Jul, 09

Anthony Adverse **** (1936, Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, Gale Sondergaard, Edmund Gwenn, Claude Rains) – Classic Movie Review 5732

Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1936 Warner Bros film of Hervey Allen’s novel about an early 19th-century hero’s adventures in America, France and Italy is rich, stirring and lavish. It won four Oscars, with three other nominations. […]

Jul, 08

Isle of Forgotten Sins [Monsoon] ** (1943, John Carradine, Gale Sondergaard, Sidney Toler, Frank Fenton) – Classic Movie Review 5731

Story writer/ director Edgar G Ulmer’s exotic but trashy 1943 movie tells a below-par, clichéd tale of a search for a sunken ship with a $3 million cargo of gold in the South Seas. However, […]

Jul, 08

The Island *** (2005, Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean, Steve Buscemi, Michael Clarke Duncan) – Classic Movie Review 5730

Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson star as Tom Lincoln and Sarah Jordan, who flee from a sinister futuristic underground facility after they find out that they are clones of ailing millionaires who need spare parts to prolong their […]

Jul, 08

It Comes at Night **** (2017, Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo, Kelvin Harrison Jr, Riley Keough) – Movie Review

‘I think they’re sick. You don’t get it, if they’re sick, then I am too.’ Writer-director Trey Edward Shults’s good but gloomy and depressing horror movie stars Joel Edgerton, who is doing his usual sterling […]

Jul, 08

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