Derek Winnert

Strange Affair [Une étrange affaire] *** (1981, Michel Piccoli, Gérard Lanvin, Nathalie Baye) – Classic Movie Review 8884

Michel Piccoli won the Silver Bear in Berlin for Best Actor in co-writer/ director Pierre Granier-Deferre’s nimbly acted, craftily written 1981 French social satire drama Strange Affair [Une étrange affaire] in 1982 and Natalie Baye […]

Sep, 08 · in Reviews

The North Star ** (1943, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan, Ann Harding, Farley Granger, Jane Withers, Erich von Stroheim, Dean Jagger) – Classic Movie Review 8883

Director Lewis Milestone’s 1943 romantic wartime drama The North Star is an embarrassing, unreal pro-Soviet propaganda piece on behalf of the post-German invasion American-Russian alliance, about Nazis invading a Russian farming community in the Ukraine […]

Sep, 08 · in Reviews

Enchantment *** (1948, David Niven, Teresa Wright, Evelyn Keyes, Farley Granger) – Classic Movie Review 8882

‘Just About the Most Wonderful Love Story Ever Filmed!’ Director Irving Reis’s 1948 film Enchantment is a fairly enchanting, well-crafted, plushly produced little romantic melodrama, based on Rumer Godden’s novel Take Three Tenses, about a […]

Sep, 07

Enchanted Island * (1958, Dana Andrews, Jane Powell, Don Dubbins) – Classic Movie Review 8881

‘He dared to love a cannibal princess!’ Director Allan Dwan’s colourful 1958 action adventure drama Enchanted Island is a cheap and none too cheerful version of Herman Melville’s less famous novel Typee, though it is […]

Sep, 07

Most Dangerous Man Alive ** (1961, Debra Paget, Elaine Stewart, Anthony Caruso) – Classic Movie Review 8880

Ron Randell stars as escaped mobster Eddie Candell, who starts mutating after straying into a desert nuclear atomic testing zone, in director Allan Dwan’s low-budget 1961 black and white sci-fi psychotronic film Most Dangerous Man […]

Sep, 07

The Ladies Man * (2000, Tim Meadows, Karyn Parsons, Billy Dee Williams, Lee Evans, Will Ferrell, Eugene Levy, Julianne Moore) – Classic Movie Review 8879

American comic Tim Meadows plays sweet-talking Chicago late-night radio advice-show host Leon Phelps, who talks so dirty to his lady callers that he is fired with producer Julie (Karyn Parsons). Also Leon is being chased […]

Sep, 04

The 51st State [Formula 51] ** (2001, Samuel L Jackson, Robert Carlyle, Emily Mortimer) – Classic Movie Review 8878

Och aye, Samuel L McJackson is a sight for sore eyes with golf clubs and a kilt as Elmo McElroy, a crooked master chemist who heads to the UKto launch a new designer drug in […]

Sep, 03

@wpshower

Feeds

Susbscribe to our awesome Blog Feed or Comments Feed