Derek Winnert

Only the Animals [Seules les bêtes] ***½ (2019, Denis Ménochet, Laure Calamy, Damien Bonnard)

Tragedy stalks the French countryside in director Dominik Moll’s 2019 thriller Only the Animals [Seules les bêtes], as Agatha Christie meets Claude Chabrol in an ingenious and engrossing, if highly unlikely yarn. The Christie bit […]

Jun, 26 · in Reviews

We Were One Man [Nous Etions Un Seule Homme] **** (1979, Serge Avedikian, Piotr Stanislas, Catherine Albin, Lucien Guérin) – Classic Movie Review 9,963

A French peasant rescues a wounded German soldier and nurses him back to health, and their camaraderie turns into a deep bond, in the splendid 1979 French gay romantic drama movie We Were One Man […]

Jun, 26 · in Reviews

We Were Dancing ** (1942, Norma Shearer, Melvyn Douglas, Gail Patrick) – Classic Movie Review 9962

Norma Shearer rejected starring in Mrs Miniver while making director Robert Z Leonard’s 1942 featherweight black and white drawing room comedy We Were Dancing, loosely based on one of Noël Coward’s Tonight at 8.30 short […]

Jun, 26

We Were Strangers *** (1949, Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendáriz, Ramon Novarro, Gilbert Roland) – Classic Movie Review 9961

Director John Huston’s 1949 We Were Strangers stars John Garfield as Tony Fenner, who helps a 1930s Cuba plot to overthrow the tyrannical and despotic government of President Machado by blowing up a cemetery at […]

Jun, 26

Son of Godzilla [Kaijûtô no kessen: Gojira no musuko] * (1967, Tadao Takashima, Akira Kubo, Beverly Maeda) – Classic Movie Review 9960

Son of Godzilla [Kaijûtô no kessen: Gojira no musuko] (1967) is the second of five films in the series directed by Jun Fukuda (1923–2000). Another island themed Japanese kaiju film adventure, it is the eighth film […]

Jun, 26

Susana [The Devil and the Flesh] **** (1951, Rosita Quintana, Fernando Soler, Víctor Manuel Mendoza) – Classic Movie Review 9959

Director Luis Buñuel’s splendid 1951 film drama Susana [Susana, demonio y carne] [The Devil and the Flesh] was filmed fast in black and white in Mexico and is the story of Susana (Rosita Quintana), an […]

Jun, 25

The Brute [El Bruto] **** (1953, Pedro Armendáriz, Katy Jurado, Rosita Arenas, Andrés Soler) – Classic Movie Review 9958

The 1953 drama The Brute [El Bruto] was filmed fast by Luis Buñuel in Mexico, with intriguing performances and a fiery mood. Buñuel’s complex, heated, highly charged tale is of a none-too-intelligent meat-packing giant, Pedro […]

Jun, 25

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