Derek Winnert

Born of War *** (2013, James Frain, Sofia Black-D’Elia, Lydia Leonard) – Movie Review

Sofia Black-D’Elia stars as Oxford student Mina, whose parents are murdered in a violent invasion on her family home. Only she and her 10-year-old sister survive the attack. They are then taken into protection, and kept separate, […]

May, 01 · in Reviews

Eden **** (2014, Félix de Givry, Pauline Etienne, Vincent Macaigne) – Movie Review

Co-writer/director Mia Hansen-Løve’s 2014 French movie tells the story of the life of Paul Vallée, a French DJ who’s credited with inventing French house, a type of electronic music popular in the 1990s. Félix de Givry stars […]

May, 01 · in Reviews

Creatures the World Forgot ** (1971, Julie Ege, Brian O’Shaughnessy, Tony Bonner, Robin John) – Classic Movie Review 2441

Julie Ege stars as top cave-dweller Nala the Girl in director Don Chaffey’s amusingly daft 1971 follow-up to his One Million Years BC (1966), Slave Girls (1967) and When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970). The fourth […]

May, 01

Slave Girls [Prehistoric Women] ** (1967, Martine Beswick, Edina Ronay, Michael Latimer, Carol White, Stephanie Randall) – Classic Movie Review 2440

Slave Girls [Prehistoric Women] (1967): ‘Beaten into submission… turned into slaves… man at the mercy of a Kingdom of Prehistoric Women!’  Writer/ producer/ director Michael Carreras’s Hammer Films 1967 British fantasy adventure movie Slave Girls […]

May, 01

Babette’s Feast [Babettes gæstebud] ***** (1987, Stéphane Audran, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel) Classic Movie Review 2438

Writer-director Gabriel Axel’s 1987 Danish movie won the 1988 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. It was a special triumph as it was the first Danish film to win the best foreign film Oscar. It also […]

May, 01

Gunga Din ***** (1939, Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jnr, Sam Jaffe) – Classic Movie Review 2439

Director George Stevens’s stirring 1939 movie Gunga Din was RKO Radio Pictures’ biggest movie up till that time. It is a hugely entertaining North West Frontier adventure yarn based loosely on Rudyard Kipling’s poem. Cary […]

Apr, 30

The Best Years of Our Lives ***** (1946, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, Cathy O’Donnell, Hoagy Carmichael, Harold Russell, Gladys George) – Classic Movie Review 2437

Director William Wyler’s 1946 triumph The Best Years of Our Lives won seven Oscars including Best Picture. It also won the 1947 Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture and the 1948 BAFTA Film Award for […]

Apr, 30

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