Derek Winnert

Miss You Already **½ (2015, Drew Barrymore, Toni Collette, Dominic Cooper, Paddy Considine, Jacqueline Bisset) Movie Review

A warm-hearted romantic comedy drama about a woman dying of cancer? Well that’s a bit of a hard sell. There are plenty of laughs in the film, sometimes polished ones, sometimes crudely constructed ones, but overall […]

Sep, 24 · in Uncategorized

McFarland, USA ***½ (2015, Kevin Costner, Maria Bello, Carlos Pratts, Ramiro Rodriguez, Morgan Saylor, Elsie Fisher) – Movie Review

Kevin Costner’s film has legs: this will run and run. Corny and sentimental though undoubtedly is, McFarland is also a beautifully done, sheering heart-warmer. Inhabiting the space with leathery charm, style and grace, a relaxed […]

Sep, 23 · in Articles

Solace **½ (2015, Anthony Hopkins, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Abbie Cornish, Colin Farrell, Marley Shelton, Xander Berkeley) – Movie Review

Anthony Hopkins stars as a psychic doctor working with an FBI agent (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and a criminal psychologist (Abbie Cornish) to find a serial killer (Colin Farrell), in the 2015 American mystery thriller film Solace. Anthony […]

Sep, 23

The Palm Beach Story ***** (1942, Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee) – Classic Movie Review 2923

Writer-director Preston Sturges’s marvellous 1942 American classic stars Claudette Colbert as a wife called Gerry Jeffers, who runs away from penniless inventor husband Tom Jeffers (Joel McCrea) and takes off for Florida’s Palm Beach. There she soon […]

Sep, 23

Mata Hari ***½ (1931, Greta Garbo, Ramon Novarro, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, C Henry Gordon, Karen Morley) – Classic Movie Review 2,922

Greta Garbo is alluring as the Dutch-born German spy in her biggest hit film Mata Hari (1931). She says: ‘Women like me are trained to forget. We mustn’t admit a heart. I never look ahead. […]

Sep, 22

Conquest [Marie Walewska] **** (1937, Greta Garbo, Charles Boyer, Reginald Owen, Alan Marshal, Henry Stephenson, Dame May Whitty) – Classic Movie Review 2921

Director Clarence Brown’s plush 1937 historical romantic drama stars Greta Garbo in a weepie love story about Countess Marie Walewska, the Polish mistress of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (Charles Boyer). She becomes Napoleon’s mistress at the urging of […]

Sep, 21

Two-Faced Woman **** (1941, Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Constance Bennett, Ruth Gordon, Roland Young, Robert Sterling) – Classic Movie Review 2920

Director George Cukor directs Greta Garbo in a bitter-sweet occasion – her final film in 1941 – in which she plays a double role as twin sisters. MGM is evidently trying to capitalise on Garbo’s […]

Sep, 21

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