Derek Winnert

Many Rivers to Cross **½ (1955, Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, Victor McLaglen) – Classic Movie Review 4369

Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker were not at their best in comedy, but they do show a surprisingly lively, nimble touch here as a reluctant Kentucky frontiersman called Bushrod Gentry (!) and Mary Cherne, the […]

Sep, 15 · in Uncategorized

Making Love *** (1982, Michael Ontkean, Harry Hamlin, Kate Jackson, Wendy Hiller, Arthur Hill, Nancy Olson) – Classic Movie Review 4,368

Harry Hamlin plays LA novelist Bart, who meets married young LA doctor Zach (Michael Ontkean), who falls for him, in Making Love (1982), the first American major studio movie focusing on a romantic gay relationship. […]

Sep, 15 · in Uncategorized

Madagascar Skin ***½ (1995, Bernard Hill, John Hannah, Mark Anthony, Mark Pettitt, Danny Earl) – Classic Movie Review 4367

Madagascar Skin tells a dark, teasing tale of two very different men – played by John Hannah and Bernard Hill as you have never seen them before. Meeting on a bleak and barren coast, the […]

Sep, 15

M Butterfly ** (1993, Jeremy Irons, John Lone, Barbara Sukowa, Ian Richardson, Annabel Leventon) – Classic Movie Review 4366

Whatever has gone wrong with this stage to film transfer of the hit Broadway and London West End play by David Henry Hwang about a French diplomat serving in Beijing in 1964, who falls for Chinese opera […]

Sep, 15

Train to Busan [Busanhaeng] **** (2016, Yoo Gong, Soo-an Kim, Yu-mi Jeong) – Movie Review

OMG, it’s those pesky zombies again! A virus breaks out in South Korea and turns people into zombies, and the only way out alive from Seoul is to take the train to Busan. But, the […]

Sep, 14

Anthropoid **½ (2016, Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan, Brian Caspe, Toby Jones, Karel Hermánek Jr, Bill Milner, Charlotte Le Bon) – Movie Review

Well meaning and largely convincing but depressing and rather disappointing film of the true story of Operation Anthropoid, the WWII mission to assassinate top Nazi SS General Reinhard Heydrich, leader of occupying Nazi forces in […]

Sep, 14

Dare to Be Wild **½ (2015, Emma Greenwell, Tom Hughes, Alex Macqueen) – Movie Review

Emma Greenwell stars as real-life young Irishwoman Mary Reynolds, who will stop at nothing to become gold medal winner at the Chelsea Flower Show, in writer-director Vivienne De Courcy’s old-fashioned heart-warmer. You’d have to be […]

Sep, 14

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