Derek Winnert

Wayne’s World *** (1992, Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe) – Classic Movie Review 2415

Mike Myers and Dana Carvey star as the legendary Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar in director Penelope Spheeris’s harmless, juvenile 1992 smart-Alec youth comedy based on a Saturday Night Live TV sketch. Sadly, they are […]

Apr, 20 · in Reviews

Eyes without a Face [Les yeux sans visage] ***** (1960, Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob, Juliette Mayniel) – Classic Movie Review 2414

‘The future, Madame, is something we should have started on a long time ago.’ – Docteur Génessier. Director Georges Franju’s surreal cult classic horror thriller, adapted from the novel written by Jean Redon, is supremely stylish and […]

Apr, 20 · in Reviews

Cleopatra **** (1934, Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon) – Classic Movie Review 2413

Producer-director Cecil B DeMille’s incredibly lavish and kitsch 1934 epic version of the Cleopatra story is infectiously extravagant in every way, as befits the ultimate showman he was. He was determined to make a popular […]

Apr, 20

Journey into Fear **** (1942, Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Rio, Orson Welles, Ruth Warrick, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 2,412

Norman Foster’s nailbiting 1942 film noir adventure thriller Journey into Fear bears more than a hint of the stamp of Orson Welles, who started the production, directed his own scenes, assembled a lot of his […]

Apr, 20

Mon Oncle [My Uncle] ***** (1958, Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie) – Classic Movie Review 2,411

Jacques Tati is working inventively and successfully at around the peak of his comic ingenuity and cleverness, in the 1958 French comedy film delight Mon Oncle [My Uncle]. In the first of his films to […]

Apr, 20

Senso ***** (1954, Farley Granger, Alida Valli, Massimo Girotti, Heinz Moog) – Classic Movie Review 2410

One of the gay Marxist aristocrat Luchino Visconti’s greatest films, this highly emotional, elegantly staged and gorgeous-looking 1954 world cinema romantic masterpiece tells the story of the tragedy of an Italian woman who betrays her […]

Apr, 19

Monsieur Verdoux **** (1947, Charles Chaplin, Martha Raye, William Frawley, Marilyn Nash, Mady Correll) – Classic Movie Review 2409

Orson Welles approached Charles Chaplin with the idea of Chaplin starring in a film based on the celebrated French murderer, Bluebeard Henri Landru. Chaplin dropped out of Welles’s project but soon thought the story would […]

Apr, 19

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