Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Eaten by Lions *** (2018, Antonio Aakeel, Jack Carroll, Asim Chaudhry, Johnny Vegas) – Movie Review

Eaten by Lions: Good script, good performances. Likeable, charming and funny. Co-writer/ director Jason Wingard’s confident contemporary multicultural comedy Eaten by Lions has a good script and good performances. It is likeable, charming and funny […]

Jun, 22 · in Reviews

Topper Takes a Trip **** (1938, Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray) – Classic Movie Review 7204

Roland Young returns for director Norman Z McLeod’s polished and highly amusing 1938 Topper Takes a Trip, the sequel to the 1937 supernatural fantasy comedy Topper, as haunted banker Cosmo P Topper, who goes to […]

Jun, 21 · in Articles

Topper Returns **** (1941, Joan Blondell, Roland Young, Carole Landis, Billie Burke) – Classic Movie Review 7203

Director Roy Del Ruth’s 1941 black and white fantasy comedy film Topper Returns, based on the characters created by Thorne Smith, is the third and final entry in the series of films that began with the […]

Jun, 21

Heatwave **** (1982, Judy Davis, Richard Moir, Chris Haywood, Bill Hunter, John Gregg, John Meillon) – Classic Movie Review 7202

Director Phillip Noyce’s sizzling 1982 Australian film Heatwave is based on the real life mysterious disappearance and murder of Juanita Nielsen, immediately following Donald Crombie’s earlier film inspired by the story, The Killing of Angel Street (1981). An architect takes on the […]

Jun, 21

Newsfront **** (1978, Bill Hunter, Gerard Kennedy, Angela Punch McGregor, Wendy Hughes, Chris Haywood, John Ewart, Bryan Brown) – Classic Movie Review 7201

Director Phillip Noyce’s 1978 Australian times are changing movie Newsfront is an excellent, likeable, good-humoured drama of rival Aussie cinema newsreel cameramen in the Fifties. They are sweet-natured Len Maguire (Bill Hunter) for ‘Cinetone’ and bad-tempered […]

Jun, 21

The Eagle and the Hawk *** (1933, Fredric March, Cary Grant, Carole Lombard, Jack Oakie) – Classic Movie Review 7200

Directors Stuart Walker and Mitchell Leisen’s 1933 The Eagle and the Hawk is a modest but decent World War One war action melodrama, starring Fredric March as Jerry Young, a Royal Air Force squadron flier […]

Jun, 20

I’ll Take Romance *** (1937, Grace Moore, Melvyn Douglas, Helen Westley) – Classic Movie Review 7199

Director Edward H Griffith’s rarely revived 1937 Columbia Pictures black and white musical romance I’ll Take Romance is worth a little look, mainly for its effective and tuneful star turn by Grace Moore. As Elsa Terry, […]

Jun, 20

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