Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Fast and Loose ** (1930, Miriam Hopkins, Carole Lombard, Frank Morgan, Charles Starrett, Henry Wadsworth, Winifred Harris) – Classic Movie Review 12,619

Siblings Miriam Hopkins and Henry Wadsworth want to marry people (Charles Starrett and Carole Lombard) their parents (Frank Morgan, Winifred Harris) think beneath them. Paramount Pictures’ 1930 film Fast and Loose is a pretty amusing […]

Aug, 21 · in Uncategorized

I Dream in Another Language **** (2017, Fernando Álvarez Rebeil, José Manuel Poncelis, Eligio Meléndez) – Classic Movie Review 12,618

The 2017 Mexican drama film I Dream in Another Language [Sueño en otro idioma] is a tragic love story, beautifully handled and moving. A linguist finds a language’s last two speakers fell out as young […]

Aug, 21 · in Uncategorized

Chris & Don: A Love Story *** (2007, Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy) – Classic Movie Review 12,617

Chris & Don: A Love Story is an insightful and poignant 2007 documentary film chronicling the lifelong relationship between author Christopher Isherwood and his younger lover, artist Don Bachardy. Chris & Don: A Love Story […]

Aug, 20

It Pays to Advertise *** (1931, Norman Foster, Carole Lombard, Skeets Gallagher, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 12,616

Director Frank Tuttle’s engagingly entertaining 1931 American pre-Code Paramount Pictures black and white satirical comedy drama film It Pays to Advertise stars Norman Foster and Carole Lombard. Carole Lombard plays Mary Grayson, who teaches her […]

Aug, 20

From Hell to Heaven *** (1933, Carole Lombard, Jack Oakie, Sidney Blackmer, Adrienne Ames, David Manners) – Classic Movie Review 12,615

The 1933 ensemble drama film From Hell to Heaven is Paramount’s answer to Grand Hotel, set at a racetrack hotel where Colly Tanner (Carole Lombard) bets her virtue on a nag. ‘PANORAMIC DRAMA OF HUMAN GREED […]

Aug, 19

We’re Not Dressing **** (1934, Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Leon Errol, Ethel Merman) – Classic Movie Review 12,614

Paramount Pictures’ 1934 screwball musical comedy film We’re Not Dressing stars Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard, George Burns, Gracie Allen and Ethel Merman, and is based on the 1902 J M Barrie play The Admirable Crichton. Director Norman […]

Aug, 18

Norwegian Dream ***½ (2023, Hubert Milkowski, Karl Bekele Steinland, Jakub Sierenberg, Øyvind Brandtzæg, Izabella Dudziak, Runar Koteng Frønes) – Classic Movie Review 12,613

Hubert Milkowski stars in the powerful and insightful 2023 film Norwegian Dream as Polish immigrant Robert, who runs from homophobic Poland to work in a fish processing factory in Norway, where he falls in love […]

Aug, 17

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