Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Mechanic: Resurrection *½ (2016, Jason Statham, Jessica Alba, Tommy Lee Jones, Michelle Yeoh, Sam Hazeldine) – Movie Review

Jason Statham returns as Arthur Bishop in this fast-paced but ludicrous 2016 all-action thriller from German director Dennis Gansel, who does manage plenty of exciting action thrills but no tension or credibility at all. It is a […]

Aug, 29 · in Uncategorized

Little Women **** (1949, June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Lawford, Margaret O’Brien, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Rossano Brazzi, Lucile Watson, C Aubrey Smith) – Classic Movie Review 4266

Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1949 movie Little Women is an expensive and colourful remake of director George Cukor’s 1933 classic Little Women, based on Louisa May Alcott’s famous novel about four sisters finding romance. The lovely […]

Aug, 29 · in Reviews

Little Women ***** (1933, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Frances Dee, Jean Parker, Paul Lukas, Spring Byington, Edna May Oliver) – Classic Movie Review 4265

Director George Cukor steers this antique 1933 classic RKO movie of the novel by Louisa May Alcott safely and smoothly to the screen, with a great vintage cast to help him. Little Women (1933) won […]

Aug, 29

Mambo Italiano *** (2003, Luke Kirby, Paul Sorvino, Ginette Reno, Peter Miller, Mary Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 4264

An Italian-Canadian 20something, Angelo Barberini (Luke Kirby), comes out as gay to his nice Italian immigrant parents (Paul Sorvino, Ginette Reno), who are horrified, after he leaves home to share his life with a closety policeman, […]

Aug, 28

An Early Frost **** (1985, Aidan Quinn, Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Sylvia Sidney, D W Moffett, John Glover, Sydney Walsh, Bill Paxton, Terry O’Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 4263

Director John Erman’s beautifully acted, extremely moving 1985 pioneering AIDS drama starts when successful young attorney Michael Pierson (Aidan Quinn) tells his family both that he is gay and that he is ill. Quinn gives […]

Aug, 28

Morocco ***** (1930, Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, Adolphe Menjou) – Classic Movie Review 4262

Director Josef Von Sternberg’s 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama Morocco stars Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, and Adolphe Menjou. It is based on the novel Amy Jolly by Benno Vigny, though the on-screen credits state ‘From the play […]

Aug, 28

Dishonored **** (1931, Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, Lew Cody, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Warner Orland, Barry Norton) – Classic Movie Review 4261

The Paramount studio decided that they wanted their goddess Marlene Dietrich to challenge rival studio MGM’s mighty reigning queen of Hollywood Greta Garbo head on. So, while Garbo was making Mata Hari, they cast Dietrich […]

Aug, 28

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