Derek Winnert

Lady in the Dark *** (1944, Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Warner Baxter, Jon Hall, Barry Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 8902

‘The minx in mink with a yen for men!’ Director Mitchell Leisen’s 1944 Lady in the Dark stars Ginger Rogers as a depressed magazine editor career woman Liza Elliott, who suffers endless headaches and daydreams, […]

Sep, 13 · in Reviews

Full Confession *** (1939, Victor McLaglen, Sally Eilers, Joseph Calleia, Barry Fitzgerald) – Classic Movie Review 8901

Co-writer/ director John Farrow’s 1939 crime drama Full Confession stars Victor McLaglen as Pat McGinnis, who agonises as another man, Michael O’Keefe (Barry Fitzgerald), is sentenced on circumstantial evidence to die in the electric chair […]

Sep, 12 · in Reviews

Ne Zha [Nezha zhi motong jiangshi] (2019) – Movie Review

Writer-director Yu Yang [Jiaozi]’s striking 2019 Chinese animated fantasy adventure Ne Zha [Nezha zhi motong jiangshi] is bright, lively, entertaining, sometimes impressive and sometimes just amiably silly. Some of the animation design looks very good […]

Sep, 12

A Cry in the Night *** (1956, Raymond Burr, Edmond O’Brien, Brian Donlevy, Natalie Wood, Richard Anderson, Irene Hervey) – Classic Movie Review 8900

‘THE TEEN-AGE DATE IN LOVERS’ LANE THEY’LL NEVER LET HER FORGET!’ Director Frank Tuttle’s 1956 film noir A Cry in the Night stars Raymond Burr, who is typecast again as a creepy, mother-fixated heavy and […]

Sep, 12

A Cry in the Dark **** (1988, Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, Nick Tate, Charles Tingwell, Lewis Fitzgerald, Bruce Myles, Dale Reeves) – Classic Movie Review 8899

Director Fred Schepisi’s 1988 A Cry in the Dark stars Meryl Streep, who gets to try an Aussie accent this time as Seventh Day Adventist Lindy Chamberlain who goes on a camping trip with husband […]

Sep, 12

The Mustang *** (2019, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jason Mitchell, Bruce Dern, Gideon Adlon, Connie Britton) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s appealing and moving 2019 drama The Mustang stars Matthias Schoenaerts as jailed violent convict Roman Coleman, given the chance in prison to participate in Bruce Dern’s rehabilitation therapy programme training […]

Sep, 11

Barbary Coast **** (1935, Miriam Hopkins, Edward G Robinson, Joel McCrea, Frank Craven, Brian Donlevy, Donald Meek, Harry Carey Sr) – Classic Movie Review 8898

‘Gold. Out of California in 1849 came the cry that lured the adventurous from the four corners of the Earth. Over the Rockies in covered wagons they came, and around the Horn in square-rigged ships.’ […]

Sep, 11

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