Derek Winnert

Berlin Express ***½ (1948, Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin, Paul Lukas, Robert Coote) – Classic Movie Review 5,695

Merle Oberon and Robert Ryan lead Jacques Tourneur’s gripping 1948 film noir espionage thriller Berlin Express, with a tense train setting, about an Allied group battling to save a German peace-worker diplomat abducted by Nazi […]

Jul, 02 · in Uncategorized

The House * (2017, Will Ferrell, Amy Poehler, Ryan Simpkins, Jason Mantzoukas, Nick Kroll, Jeremy Renner) – Movie Review 

Will Ferrell (6′ 3″) and Amy Poehler (5′ 2″) star as loving but dizzy middle aged married couple Scott and Kate Johansen, who desperately need to find the cash when their daughter Alex (Ryan Simpkins) gets in […]

Jul, 02 · in Reviews

Dungeons and Dragons ** (2000, Jeremy Irons, Thora Birch, Marlon Wayans, Bruce Payne, Justin Whalin) – Classic Movie Review 5694

Jeremy Irons overacts embarrassingly in producer-director Courtney Solomon’s only very moderate 2000 sword-and-sorcery fantasy action adventure, further held back with disappointing cheap-looking effects. Irons plays the tyrannical magician Profion, who plots to overthrow Empress Savina […]

Jul, 02

The Dark Angel **** (1935, Merle Oberon, Fredric March, Herbert Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 5,693

The 1935 American romance film The Dark Angel stars formidable Merle Oberon, Fredric March and Herbert Marshall as childhood friends who come of age in England in World War One. Richard Day won an Oscar […]

Jul, 02

Dark Water [Honogurai Mizu No Soko Kara] * (2002, Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi ) – Classic Movie Review 5692

Director Hideo Nakata’s 2002 Japanese horror movie focuses on a single mother (Hitomi Kuroki) and her five-year-old daughter (Rio Kanno) who move into a new apartment, where seeping water is a problem. Although there’s water […]

Jul, 02

Dunkirk **** (1958, John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee) – Classic Movie Review 5,691

The story of the gallant rescue operation of the retreating British army on the French beaches in 1940 is authentically and stirringly told in the realist 1958 British war drama film Dunkirk. The story of […]

Jul, 01

Pepe * (1960, Cantinflas, Dan Dailey, Shirley Jones) – Classic Movie Review 5690

Cantinflas from Around the World in 80 Days (1956) stars as the young Mexican Pepe, who follows his magnificent white stud stallion pet horse Don Juan to Hollywood when it is bought by a film director called […]

Jul, 01

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