Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Marley & Me **** (2008, Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Eric Dane, Alan Arkin, Kathleen Turner, Ann Dowd, Clarke Peters, Haley Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 4909

Attention, dog lovers! Director David Frankel’s fairly adorable 2008 comedy drama features Owen Wilson as Me, Marley as his labrador dog (named after Bob Marley) and Jennifer Aniston as his wife. The humans are both journalists, […]

Jan, 19 · in Uncategorized

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans *** (2009, Rhona Mitra, Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy, Steven Mackintosh, Kevin Grevioux, David Aston) – Classic Movie Review 4908

The bad news is there’s no Kate Beckinsale’s Selene (except in a cameo) or Scott Speedman’s Michael Corvin – and series segments without the original star(s) are notoriously difficult to make or enjoy. But the […]

Jan, 19 · in Uncategorized

Underworld: Blood Wars *** (2016, Kate Beckinsale, Theo James, Tobias Menzies, Charles Dance, Lara Pulver, James Faulkner, Peter Andersson, Bradley James) – Movie Review

For the fifth installment in the blockbuster franchise, Kate Beckinsale returns as vampire death dealer Selene, who is fending off attacks on the run from both the Lycan clan and the Vampire faction that betrayed […]

Jan, 19

xXx: Return of Xander Cage **½ (2017, Vin Diesel, Toni Collette, Donnie Yen) – Movie Review

Following xXx (2002) and his announced death in xXx: The Next Level (2005), extreme athlete turned government operative Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) returns from the dead and is signed up by bossy Jane Marke (Toni Collette) and forms […]

Jan, 19

Front Page Woman *** (1935, Bette Davis, George Brent, Roscoe Karns, Winifred Shaw, J Carrol Naish) – Classic Movie Review 4907

Bette Davis and George Brent star as reporters for rival newspapers, agony aunt Ellen Garfield and ace scoop-hound Curt Devlin, trying to outwit each other when their respective editors send them on the same big fire […]

Jan, 18

Front Page Story *** (1954, Jack Hawkins, Elizabeth Allan, Eva Bartok, Derek Farr, Patricia Marmont) – Classic Movie Review 4906

Jack Hawkins stars in Front Page Story (1954) as a workaholic Fleet Street newspaper editor who faces an endless series of trials, tribulations and troubles. Among them are which story to hold the front page for, a […]

Jan, 18

The Front **** (1976, Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Herschel Bernardi, Michael Murphy, Andrea Marcovicci, Lloyd Gough, Remak Ramsay) – Classic Movie Review 4905

Co-producer/ director Martin Ritt’s engrossing serious-minded 1976 comedy drama about Hollywood’s Fifties anti-leftist witch-hunts stars Woody Allen in one of his few films as actor only. Ritt called it ‘a film filled with bitterness and irony […]

Jan, 18

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