Derek Winnert

The Conspirators ***½ (1944, Hedy Lamarr, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen, Joseph Calleia) – Classic Movie Review 3884

Warner Bros reassembles three of Casablanca’s stars in the 1944 film The Conspirators. Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre play World War Two resistance workers plotting in Lisbon with a Dutch freedom fighter (Paul Henreid). In […]

Jun, 19 · in Reviews

Gods of Egypt * (2016, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Brenton Thwaites, Chadwick Boseman, Élodie Yung, Courtney Eaton, Rufus Sewell, Gerard Butler, Geoffrey Rush) – Movie Review

So the simple version of this mystifying story is this. Young thief Bek (Brenton Thwaites), whose true love Zaya (Courtney Eaton) is killed, seeks the aid of the powerful god Horus ( Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) to get […]

Jun, 18 · in Reviews

Sixteen Candles **** (1984, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Justin Henry) – Classic Movie Review 3887

Director John Hughes’s charming and often funny 1984 teen comedy is a Eighties highlight. It stars Molly Ringwald in her most famous role as Samantha Baker, who is understandably upset when her family forgets her […]

Jun, 18

Good Bye Lenin! **** (2003, Daniel Brühl, Katrin Saß, Chulpan Khamatova, Maria Simon, Florian Lukas) – Classic Movie Review 3886

An East German committed communist mother (Katrin Saß) falls into a coma just before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. When she awakes eight months later, her son Alex (Daniel Brühl) has to […]

Jun, 18

Good Burger ½ (1997, Kel Mitchell, Kenan Thompson, Sinbad, Abe Vigoda, Ron Lester) – Classic Movie Review 3,885

Good Burger is the movie that memorably cleared the London film critics preview theatre back in 1997 and thereafter was known as Bad Burger. Now there’s a sequel! Director Brian Robbins’s excruciating 1997 juvenile teen […]

Jun, 18

Conflict ** (1945, Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, Sydney Greenstreet) – Classic Movie Review 3,881

Humphrey Bogart stars in the 1945 film noir Conflict as a man who kills his wife to swap her for her younger sister (Alexis Smith), only to find his victim may be still alive. Director […]

Jun, 17

Passage to Marseille ***½ (1944, Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Michèle Morgan, Helmut Dantine) – Classic Movie Review 3880

Director Michael Curtiz’s propaganda-driven 1944 wartime thriller provides a slightly bumpy passage despite the first-class passengers, including the welcome reunion of five of the stars of Casablanca (1942) – Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre […]

Jun, 17

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