Derek Winnert

Twin Town * (1997, Rhys Ifans, Llyr Evans, Dougray Scott, William Thomas) – Classic Movie Review 2723

Real-life brothers Rhys Ifans and Llyr Evans star as drug-taking, car thieving slacker twins Jeremy and Julian Lewis in co-writer/director Keith Allen’s obnoxious 1997 Welsh black comedy, set in Swansea. The twins embark on a […]

Jul, 20 · in Reviews

Death Wish *** (1974, Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia) – Classic Movie Review 2722

British director Michael Winner’s slick and gritty but unpleasant 1974 vigilante revenge thriller Death Wish finds Charles Bronson in his most famous performance as the initially nice New York City architect Paul Kersey. But he […]

Jul, 19 · in Reviews

Vivacious Lady **** (1938, Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, Charles Coburn, Beulah Bondi, James Ellison) – Classic Movie Review 2709

George Stevens’s expert and delightful 1938 romantic comedy film Vivacious Lady pairs perfectly cast James Stewart and Ginger Rogers as a conservative professor and the showgirl he impulsively marries. Producer-director George Stevens’s expert and delightful […]

Jul, 19

Deception **** (1946, Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains) – Classic Movie Review 2,708

Bette Davis re-teams with her Now, Voyager co-stars Claude Rains and Paul Henreid for Warner Bros’ vintage 1946 film noir romantic drama Deception. ‘The picture wasn’t terribly good but Rains was brilliant,’ said Davis. For […]

Jul, 19

The Little Foxes ***** (1941, Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright, Dan Duryea, Richard Carlson) – Classic Movie Review 2706

In one of her most popular movies, double Oscar-winner Bette Davis landed another Oscar nomination for her cold, calculating and conniving Southern belle character Regina Giddens, who does terrible things to her estranged husband Horace […]

Jul, 19

The Man Who Cried ***½ (2000, Christina Ricci, Johnny Depp, Cate Blanchett, Oleg Yankovskiy, John Turturro, Harry Dean Stanton) – Classic Movie Review 2721

Writer-director Sally Potter’s 2000 drama stars Oleg Yankovskiy as a Russian peasant who heads for America, and promises to send for his daughter, Suzie (Christina Ricci). Later, on her way to the US to try […]

Jul, 19

The Petrified Forest ***** (1936, Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart) – Classic Movie Review 2702

Robert Sherwood’s classic doom-laden and symbolic play is too reverentially and stagily shot in 1936 by Archie L Mayo, who is content to deliver it as a rather creaky movie museum piece of filmed theatre and not […]

Jul, 19

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