Derek Winnert

Blonde Venus **** (1932, Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant) – Classic Movie Review 1274

Svengali-style producer-director Josef von Sternberg’s 1932 vintage romance provides a famous role for his protégé Marlene Dietrich as Helen Faraday, who works as the Blonde Venus chanteuse in smooth young millionaire playboy Nick Townsend’s nightclub. […]

Jun, 01 · in Reviews

She Done Him Wrong **** (1933, Mae West, Cary Grant) – Classic Movie Review 1273

Director Lowell Sherman’s provocative 1933 Pre-Production Code comedy stars Mae West in her second film, who done Cary Grant right by putting the handsome young actor in the spotlight and famously asking him ‘come up […]

Jun, 01 · in Reviews

I’m No Angel **** (1933, Mae West, Cary Grant) – Classic Movie Review 1272

Director Wesley Ruggles’s immortal 1933 comedy stars the monumental Mae West at her peak in her third motion picture, playing Tira, a carnival performer romancing Jack Clayton (Cary Grant) as she sings five tunes, trains a […]

Jun, 01

The Bank Dick ***** (1940, W C Fields, Grady Sutton, Franklin Pangborn, Shemp Howard) – Classic Movie Review 1271

The old sourpuss W C Fields invigorates the caustic vintage 1940 comedy The Bank Dick. He also wrote the nifty screenplay under the daft pen name of Mahatma Kane Jeeves. The ever-grouchy, hard-drinking old sourpuss W […]

May, 31

My Life So Far **½ (1999, Colin Firth, Rosemary Harris, Malcolm McDowell, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Irène Jacob, Robert Norman, Tchéky Karyo) – Classic Movie Review 1270

In 1999 Hugh Hudson directed My Life So Far, a bittersweet film that covers the start of a boy’s life during the early 20th century. Colin Firth gives a typically attractive star turn as the […]

May, 31

My Life Without Me **** (2003, Sarah Polley, Mark Ruffalo, Scott Speedman) – Classic Movie Review 1269

Writer-director Isabel Coixet’s 2003 Canadian-Spanish co-production is a great tearjerker. Sarah Polley tugs expertly at the heartstrings as a 23-year-old wife and mother dying of ovarian cancer in this depressing, but exquisitely done and warmly affecting […]

May, 31

My Little Eye **½ (2002, Sean C W Johnson, Kris Lemche, Stephen O’Reilly, Bradley Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 1268

Five youngsters try to win $1million by staying for six months in a creepy house, miles from anywhere, with everything they do being captured on webcams. But as time ticks by, it becomes clear somebody […]

May, 31

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