Derek Winnert

Heaven Can Wait ****½ (1943, Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn, Laird Cregar) – Classic Movie Review 3450

Producer-director Ernst Lubitsch brings his famed stylish and witty touch to this much-admired fantasy comedy tale of a 19th-century Casanova called Henry Van Cleve (Don Ameche), who catches the lovely Martha Strabel Van Cleve (Gene Tierney), but is […]

Mar, 04 · in Reviews

Heathers **** (1988, Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty, Lisanne Falk, Kim Walker) – Classic Movie Review 3449

Director Michael Lehmann’s 1988 satirical crime comedy Heathers is now an Eighties cult classic and gives an iconic role to Winona Ryder, who stars as the intelligent teenaged Veronica Sawyer, a member of a snobby elite high […]

Mar, 04 · in Reviews

Hearts Divided *** (1936, Marion Davies, Dick Powell, Claude Rains, Charles Ruggles, Arthur Treacher, Edward Everett Horton, Henry Stephenson) – Classic Movie Review 3448

Dick Powell plays Napoleon’s younger brother Captain Jerome Bonaparte. But it is Marion Davies as Betsy Patterson, a Baltimore woman he loves and marries, who stars in the well-made 1936 film Hearts Divided Dick Powell […]

Mar, 04

Hudson Hawk **½ (1991, Bruce Willis, Danny Aiello, Andie MacDowell, James Coburn, Richard E Grant, Sandra Bernhard) – Classic Movie Review 3447

Director Michael Lehmann’s 1991 spoof adventure caper is game for a laugh but alas it is all too erratic and unfocused to provide the big guffaws and chortles you’d expect. Catch the Hawk, they advertised, […]

Mar, 04

The Spider Woman Strikes Back *** (1946, Gale Sondergaard, Brenda Joyce, Rondo Hatton, Milburn Stone, Kirby Grant, Hobart Cavanaugh) – Classic Movie Review 3446

This 1946 in-name-only sequel film sees Gale Sondergaard re-creating her popular role from 1944’s The Spider Woman. But this horror thriller follow-up has no relation to the original, with Sondergaard playing a completely different character.  […]

Mar, 04

Iona *** (2015, Ruth Negga, Douglas Henshall, Tom Brooke, Michelle Duncan, Ben Gallagher, Sorcha Groundsell) – Movie Review

Writer-director Scott Graham’s 2015 drama Iona stars Ruth Negga and Douglas Henshall alongside Tom Brooke, Michelle Duncan and young upcoming talents Ben Gallagher and Sorcha Groundsell. It is a moody, atmospheric, haunting, experimental-style drama about a youngish woman called Iona (Negga) and […]

Mar, 04

London Has Fallen ** (2016, Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett) – Movie Review

Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart are back from Olympus Has Fallen (2013) as American Secret Service man Mike Banning and the US President he’s protecting in this surprise sequel to the surprise hit. Banning’s thinking of […]

Mar, 04

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