Derek Winnert

Hotel Imperial ** (1939, Isa Miranda, Ray Milland, Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, J Carrol Naish, Curt Bois) – Classic Movie Review 10,942

‘TRAPPED BY LOVE IN THE MAD MAELSTROM OF WAR! ‘ Director Robert Florey’s 1939 drama Hotel Imperial stars Italian actress Isa Miranda as Anna Warschawska, a dancer from the Balkans who masquerades as a chambermaid […]

Feb, 20 · in Uncategorized

Against the Ropes ** (2004, Meg Ryan, Omar Epps, Charles S Dutton) – Classic Movie Review 10,941

Director Charles S Dutton’s 2004 drama Against the Ropes stars Meg Ryan, who battles to get her career off the ropes as a real-life go-getting promoter, Jackie Kallen, a Jewish woman from Detroit who storms […]

Feb, 20 · in Uncategorized

Against the Wind *** (1948, Robert Beatty, Simone Signoret, Jack Warner, John Slater, Gordon Jackson, Paul Dupuis) – Classic Movie Review 10,940

Director Charles Crichton’s 1948 intelligent, if downbeat espionage, sabotage and resistance thriller Against the Wind, set in wartime occupied Belgium, comes from Ealing Studios, is produced by Michael Balcon, and is well acted by the […]

Feb, 19

L’Age d’Or ***** (1930, Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Caridad de Laberdesque) – Classic Movie Review 10,939

Director Luis Buñuel’s still provocative, vital and amusing 1930 avant-garde Surrealist masterpiece early work L’Age d’Or [The Golden Age] intends to shock and provoke as it sends up the hypocrisies of organised religion and bourgeois society, […]

Feb, 19

Agnes Browne ** (1999, Anjelica Huston, Marion O’Dwyer, Niall O’Shea, Ciaran Owens, Ray Winstone, Arno Chevrier) – Classic Movie Review 10,938

Anjelica Huston directs herself in her 1999 comedy drama star vehicle Agnes Browne, with a screenplay by Brendan O’Carroll and John Goldsmith, based on the novel by John Goldsmith. Anjelica Huston must have kissed the […]

Feb, 19

Agnes of God **** (1985, Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft, Meg Tilly) – Classic Movie Review 10,937

Director Norman Jewison’s 1985 mystery drama Agnes of God stars Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft and Meg Tilly. It was nominated for three Oscars: Best Actress (Anne Bancroft), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Meg Tilly) […]

Feb, 19

Agatha *** (1979, Dustin Hoffman, Vanessa Redgrave, Timothy Dalton) – Classic Movie Review 10,936

Director Michael Apted’s 1979 imaginative British biopic Agatha is based on a film story by Kathleen Tynan, and stars Vanessa Redgrave, Dustin Hoffman and Timothy Dalton. It is helpfully advertised as ‘a fictional solution to […]

Feb, 19

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