Derek Winnert

The Return of Chandu *** (1934, Bela Lugosi, Maria Alba, Lucien Prival) – Classic Movie Review 9136

Chandu the Magician returns from the hit 1932 Chandu the Magician in The Return of Chandu (1934) and he is played by a different actor – the very same man who played his madman foe […]

Dec, 07 · in Uncategorized

Chandu the Magician *** (1932, Edmund Lowe, Irene Ware, Bela Lugosi) – Classic Movie Review 9135

Directors Marcel Varnel and William Cameron Menzies’s 1932 radio broadcast sci-fi mystery fantasy thriller Chandu the Magician features a battle royal between Chandu the Magician (Edmund Lowe) and Roxor (Bela Lugosi), a world-dominating madman with […]

Dec, 07 · in Uncategorized

Music Is My Future [Music in Darkness] *** (1948, Mai Zetterling, Birger Malmsten, Olof Winnerstrand, Naima Wifstrand) – Classic Movie Review 9134

The 1948 Swedish film Music Is My Future [Musik I Mörker] [Music in Darkness] is the fourth film from master film-maker Ingmar Bergman. The screenplay is by Dagmar Edqvist, based on the novel by Dagmar […]

Dec, 07

Honey Boy **** (2019, Shia LaBeouf, Lucas Hedges, Noah Jupe, Laura San Giacomo, FKA Twigs) – Movie Review

More than just a bit uncomfortably, Shia LaBeouf plays a version of his own domineering father in Honey Boy (2019), an ex-rodeo clown with a prison record called James Lort, in LaBeouf’s thinly semi-fictionalised story […]

Dec, 07

The New Centurions **** (1972, George C Scott, Stacy Keach, Jane Alexander) – Classic Movie Review 9133

Director Richard Fleischer’s 1972 The New Centurions stars George C Scott, Stacy Keach and Jane Alexander as well as an excellent support cast too. It was renamed Precinct 45: Los Angeles Police in the UK. […]

Dec, 06

Luther *** (1974, Stacy Keach, Patrick Magee, Hugh Griffith, Robert Stephens, Judi Dench, Alan Badel) – Classic Movie Review 9132

Director Guy Green’s 1974 film Luther is another interesting item from producer Ely Landau’s American Film Theatre movie series in the Seventies. Released in January 1974, Luther is the fifth of the 13 films. Edward Anhalt […]

Dec, 06

The Pirates of Penzance **** (1983, Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, Linda Ronstadt) – Classic Movie Review 9131

Director Wilford Leach’s 1983 comedy musical The Pirates of Penzance is the welcome, ultra-cheerful, uber-energetic film version of the bright, vivacious Broadway and London revival (by producer Joseph Papp) of a souped -up version of […]

Dec, 06

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