Derek Winnert

The Lovers [Les Amants] **** (1958, Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cluny, Jean-Marc Bory) – Classic Movie Review 5229

The 25-year-old co-writer/ director Louis Malle’s 1958 second feature is a deliciously lyrical love story that caused huge controversy and confirmed the rising reputations of the French director and his star Jeanne Moreau, previously established […]

Apr, 01 · in Reviews

Man Down ** (2015, Shia LaBeouf, Jai Courtney, Gary Oldman, Kate Mara) – Movie Review

Shia LaBeouf gives an intense, smouldering, convincing and classy star turn as disturbed US Marine Gabriel Drummer, who returns home from Afghanistan to be interrogated by Counselor Peyton (Gary Oldman). Something has happened to his son and […]

Apr, 01 · in Reviews

The Void **** (2016, Aaron Poole, Ellen Wong, Kathleen Munroe, Kenneth Welsh) – Movie Review

Writer-directors Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski’s first-class low-budget Seventies-style horror movie stars Aaron Poole as cop Daniel Carter, who starts it off promisingly by discovering a blood-soaked man limping down a deserted road at night. Carter then rushes the […]

Apr, 01

It [Stephen King’s It] *** (1990, Tim Curry, John Ritter, Richard Thomas, Annette O’Toole, Harry Anderson, Dennis Christopher, Olivia Hussey, Richard Masur, Tim Reid) – Classic Movie Review 5228

Director Tommy Lee Wallace’s eerie and effective 1990 two-part TV mini-series fantasy horror thriller stars Tim Curry, John Ritter, Richard Thomas and Annette O’Toole, who give excellent performances in this adaptation of Stephen King’s best-selling […]

Apr, 01

Little Lord Fauntleroy **** (1921, Mary Pickford, Claude Gillingwater, Joseph J Dowling) – Classic Movie Review 5227

Directors Alfred E Green and Jack Pickford’s 1921 children’s film Little Lord Fauntleroy finds Mary Pickford starring in a double role and the silent film superstar was a big hit playing both little 12-year-old Cedric Errol […]

Apr, 01

Little Lord Fauntleroy **** (1936, Freddie Bartholomew, C Aubrey Smith, Mickey Rooney, Dolores Costello, Jessie Ralph, Guy Kibbee) – Classic Movie Review 5226

Producer David O Selznick and director John Cromwell’s lovingly crafted 1936 children’s film finds the perfect star in Freddie Bartholomew as little Cedric (‘Ceddie’), aka Little Lord Fauntleroy. It follows a once famous 1921 silent […]

Apr, 01

All I Desire **** (1953, Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Carlson, Lyle Bettger, Maureen O’Sullivan, Richard Long, Lori Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 5,225

‘Now He Knew Her as Other Men Had!’ The superior, touching 1953 soap opera film All I Desire is directed at full emotional throttle by Douglas Sirk and is stirringly acted, especially by the admirable […]

Mar, 31

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