Derek Winnert

Celebrity *** (1998, Kenneth Branagh, Judy Davis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Melanie Griffith, Joe Mantegna, Winona Ryder, Charlize Theron, Hank Azario, Famke Janssen) – Classic Movie Review 1037

Celebrity has to be counted a bit of an intriguing flop in 1998 from writer-director Woody Allen (who doesn’t appear, which is always bad news). Kenneth Branagh is miscast and struggling in what amounts to […]

Apr, 02 · in Reviews

The Old Dark House ****½ (1932, Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Raymond Massey, Gloria Stuart, Ernest Thesiger, Eva Moore, Lilian Bond, Brember Wills, Elspeth Dudgeon) – Classic Movie Review 1,036

Ernest Thesiger: ‘My sister was on the point of arranging these flowers’ (chucks them in the fire). James Whale’s brilliant, renowned and honoured 1932 old dark comedy chiller film The Old Dark House is adapted […]

Apr, 01 · in Reviews

The Man in the Iron Mask *** (1998, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gabriel Byrne, Gérard Depardieu, Anne Parillaud) – Classic Movie Review 1035

Writer-director Randall Wallace (also the writer of Braveheart) directs a lusty, zesty 1998 version of the famous Alexandre Dumas novel, first filmed in 1929 by Douglas Fairbanks Sr as The Iron Mask, and again as […]

Apr, 01

The Man in the Iron Mask ***** (1939, Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William) – Classic Movie Review 1034

Director James Whale’s 1939 black and white adventure classic The Man in the Iron Mask is an exuberantly spirited display of swashbuckling, which helps light up this thoroughly enjoyable, lustily entertaining Three Musketeers tale. It […]

Apr, 01

Matchstick Men (2003, Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell) – Classic Film Review 1033

Director Ridley Scott’s intriguing 2003 movie stars Nicolas Cage as neurotic phobic conman Roy and Sam Rockwell as Frank, his quirky, ambitious protégé cum sidekick. They are about to pull off a swindle on Bruce McGill when […]

Apr, 01

Proof of Life **** (2000, Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, David Morse, David Caruso, Pamela Reed) – Classic Movie Review 1032

Director Taylor Hackford’s 2000 thriller is the one where Meg Ryan met and fell for Russell Crowe in real life. It is a scalding, epic action thriller about kidnap and retrieval. Alice Bowman (Ryan) begs […]

Apr, 01

The Edge **** (1997, Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Elle Macpherson) – Classic Movie Review 1031

Director Lee Tamahori’s 1997 adventure offers Anthony Hopkins a chance he eagerly grabs to enjoy has a field day as an endlessly resourceful billionaire who suffers a plane crash and has to survive the Alaskan […]

Apr, 01

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