Derek Winnert

The Joy Luck Club **** (1993, Tamlyn Tomita, Rosalind Chao, Kieu Chinh, Tsai Chin) – Classic Movie Review 12,685

Wayne Wang’s relishable 1993 American drama film The Joy Luck Club looks into the relationships between a group of Chinese-American women and their Chinese immigrant mothers. Director Wayne Wang’s relishable 1993 American drama film The […]

Oct, 25 · in Reviews

Joy of Living *** (1938, Irene Dunne, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Alice Brady, Guy Kibbee, Lucille Ball, Eric Blore, Jean Dixon) – Classic Movie Review 12,684

RKO’s attractive 1938 American musical comedy film Joy of Living is inconsequential but always vivacious and full of high spirits. And it has the cast it needs to make it work: Irene Dunne, Douglas Fairbanks […]

Oct, 25 · in Reviews

Joy in the Morning ** (1965, Richard Chamberlain, Yvette Mimieux, Arthur Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 12,683

Richard Chamberlain, teen idol and star of the MGM TV show Dr Kildare, and Yvette Mimieux, also under contract to MGM, star in the joyless 1965 MGM American romance drama film Joy in the Morning.  […]

Oct, 24

Once a Sinner ** (1950, Pat Kirkwood, Jack Watling, Joy Shelton, Sydney Tafler, Thora Hird) – Classic Movie Review 12,682

Lewis Gilbert’s 1950 British film Once a Sinner stars Pat Kirkwood as a good time girl married to a bank clerk (Jack Watling), who chucks her out when he finds she has a child with […]

Oct, 23

Confession **** (1937, Kay Francis, Basil Rathbone, Ian Hunter, Jane Bryan, Donald Crisp) – Classic Movie Review 12,681

Kay Francis stars as a cabaret singer who murders a renowned composer/concert pianist (Basil Rathbone) in Warner Bros’ entertaining, handsome and stylish 1937 romantic melodrama film Confession.  Director Joe May’s 1937 film Confession is a […]

Oct, 21

Primos [Cousins] **** (2019, Thiago Cazado, Paulo Sousa, Juliana Zancanaro) – Classic Movie Review 12,680

The 2019 Brazilian comedy drama film Cousins tells the charming story of a gay teen romance in a hyper-religious household. Director Thiago Cazado recalls: ‘I wanted to make a love story that defied moral standards. […]

Oct, 20

The Fall of Sparta [La Chute de Sparte] *** (2018, Lévi Doré, Jonathan St-Armand) – Classic Movie Review 12,679

The super-likeable Canadian drama film 2018 The Fall of Sparta is stylishly filmed and engagingly acted by Lévi Doré as nerdy, wimpy 16-year-old Steeve Simard struggling to negotiate his final year at high school in […]

Oct, 18

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