Derek Winnert

The Road ***½ (2009, Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee) – Classic Movie Review 3,784

Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee give impeccable performances under difficult grungy circumstances as a father and son at the end of the road, in the bleak but distinguished 2009 apocalyptic drama film The Road, based […]

May, 29 · in Reviews

The Birth of a Nation ***** (1915, Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Donald Crisp, Ralph Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 3782

Producer-writer-director D W Griffith’s racist 1915 silent movie landmark tale of two families during and after the American Civil War is the American cinema’s first epic and it can still exert a strong hold on […]

May, 29 · in Reviews

Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages ***** (1916, Lillian Gish, Douglas Fairbanks, Mae Marsh, Constance Talmadge, Robert Harron) – Classic Movie Review 3,781

Producer-writer-director D W Griffith’s 1916 classic epic silent film Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages celebrated the 100th birthday of its US release on 5 September  2016. It advertised ‘colossal spectacle’, and that’s exactly what […]

May, 29

The Seventh Veil **** (1945, James Mason, Ann Todd, Herbert Lom, Hugh McDermott, Albert Lieven) – Classic Movie Review 3780

Ann Todd and Herbert Lom are outstanding in director Compton Bennett’s rousing Oscar-winning 1945 British psychiatry drama The Seventh Veil but it is James Mason who steals the show. ‘If you won’t play for me, […]

May, 29

The Seventh Victim **** (1943, Kim Hunter, Tom Conway, Isabel Jewell, Hugh Beaumont, Jean Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 3779

The legendary chiller king Val Lewton produces director Mark Robson’s deliciously brooding and sinister 1943 film noir-style melodrama about a group of Satanists in Greenwich Village uncovered by the heroine Mary Gibson (Kim Hunter), after she arrives […]

May, 29

The Daughter *** (2015, Geoffrey Rush, Sam Neill, Anna Torv, Miranda Otto, Paul Schneider, Kate Box, Odessa Young, Ewen Leslie) – Movie Review

In his directorial debut feature, Simon Stone writes and directs an interesting riff on Henrik Ibsen’s 1884 Norwegian classic play The Wild Duck, moving it to a modern setting and Australia, filming in Sydney. It is all about […]

May, 29

The Trust *** (2016, Nicolas Cage, Elijah Wood, Sky Ferreira, Jerry Lewis, Ethan Suplee) – Movie Review

There are things wrong with the engagingly eccentric and berserk 2016 crime thriller The Trust, but the star performances of Nicolas Cage and Elijah Wood are not among them. They are faultless and funny as Jim Stone and David Waters, a pair of maverick Las […]

May, 28

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