Derek Winnert

Mortelle Randonnée [Deadly Run] [Deadly Circuit] **** (1983, Michel Serrault, Isabelle Adjani, Guy Marchand, Guy Marchand, Stéphane Audran, Macha Méril, Geneviève Page, Sami Frey) – Classic Movie Review 8680

Director Claude Miller’s 1983 Deadly Run [Mortelle Randonnée] is a riveting, ostentatiously showy French romantic crime mystery thriller with Isabelle Adjani starring as Catherine Leiris, a pathological serial killer whose trail of corpses is pursued […]

Jul, 06 · in Reviews

Midsommar **** (2019, Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, Will Poulter, Vilhelm Blomgren) – Movie Review

Ari Aster’s Midsommar (2019) is quite a nasty, unpleasant experience, but it keeps the faith to being an actual horror film. It is very smart, script-wise and visually, and stays hauntingly in the mind. Writer/director […]

Jul, 06 · in Reviews

Camille Claudel **** (1988, Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Madeleine Robinson, Alain Cuny) – Classic Movie Review 8679

The doomed love affair between the famous sculptor Auguste Rodin (Gérard Depardieu) and his student assistant Camille Claudel (Isabelle Adjani) is exquisitely brought to life by two of the great names of Eighties French cinema […]

Jul, 06

Enter Arsène Lupin *** (1944, Charles Korvin, Ella Raines, J Carrol Naish, Gale Sondergaard, George Dolenz, Miles Mander, Leyland Hodgson) – Classic Movie Review 8,678

Universal Pictures’ likeable and entertaining 1944 black and white film noir mystery thriller Enter Arsène Lupin stars Charles Korvin as writer Maurice Leblanc’s French gentleman jewel thief Arsène Lupin. Director Ford Beebe’s likeable and entertaining 1944 […]

Jul, 05

Arsène Lupin Returns *** (1938, Melvyn Douglas, Virginia Bruce, Warren William, John Halliday, Nat Pendleton, Monty Woolley, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 8677

The 1938 American mystery film Arsène Lupin Returns stars Melvyn Douglas, Virginia Bruce and Warren William, and is the welcome sequel to the 1932 MGM hit Arsène Lupin. Director George Fitzmaurice’s 1938 American mystery film […]

Jul, 05

Arsène Lupin **** (1932, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Karen Morley) – Classic Movie Review 8,676

MGM brings Maurice Leblanc’s famous gentleman crook to the screen for its first sound incarnation in 1932 with both Barrymore brothers in the popular pre-Code mystery film Arsène Lupin. Director Jack Conway has the privilege […]

Jul, 05

Spider-Man: Far from Home *** (2019, Tom Holland, Samuel L Jackson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Marisa Tomei, Jon Favreau, Zendaya) – Movie Review

Spider-Man: Far from Home is laid back, light hearted, and light weight. It mixes sentimentality with goofy teen laughs, sitcom soap opera and endless CGI action to polished, pleasant, painless effect. They have cleverly made […]

Jul, 04

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