Derek Winnert

Bergman: A Year in a Life [Bergman – ett år, ett liv] **** (2018, Ingmar Bergman) – Movie Review

Director Jane Magnusson’s paints a vivid warts and all portrait of the world cinema and theatre artist Ingmar Bergman in her stupendous documentary Bergman: A Year in a Life (2018), a magnificent film buff’s paradise, […]

Jan, 29 · in Reviews

Q Planes [Clouds Over Europe] **** (1939, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Valerie Hobson, George Merritt, George Curzon) -Classic Movie Review 8,072

Directors Tim Whelan and Arthur B Woods’s 1939 British black and white spy comedy thriller film Q Planes [Clouds Over Europe] is stylish, pacy vintage entertainment from the Alexander Korda London Films studios empire, with […]

Jan, 28 · in Reviews

Q – The Winged Serpent [Q] **** (1982, Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark, David Carradine, Richard Roundtree) – Classic Movie Review 8071

Writer-director Larry Cohen’s 1982 Q – The Winged Serpent [or just plain Q] is a hugely enjoyable, if raggedly made, cult horror thriller, often imaginatively written and directed. It is by turns scary, funny and […]

Jan, 28

Free Solo **** (2018, Alex Honnold, Dierdre Wolownick, Tommy Caldwell, Jimmy Chin, Sanni McCandless) – Movie Review

Free Solo (2018) is an exhilarating, nail-biting, penetrating, revealing documentary on the weird life and times of rock climbing phenomenon Alex Honnold. It is nominated for one Oscar for Best Documentary Feature (for Jimmy Chin, […]

Jan, 28

The Queen of Babylon [La Cortigiana di Babilonia] ** (1954, Rhonda Fleming, Ricardo Montalban, Roldano Lupi, Carlo Ninchi) – Classic Movie Review 8070

Co-writer/ director Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia’s fluffy, flashy, good-looking, nicely done Italian 1954 international spectacle The Queen of Babylon [La Cortigiana di Babilonia] is made in glorious colour (Ferraniacolor), which has the benefit of doing full […]

Jan, 28

Nefertite, Regina del Nilo [Queen of the Nile] *** (1961, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Edmund Purdom, Amedeo Nazzari, Liana Orfei, Carlo D’Angelo, Clelia Matania) – Classic Movie Review 8069

Co-writer/ director Fernando Cerchio’s 1961 Italian sword-and-sandal historical drama epic Nefertite, Regina del Nilo [Queen of the Nile] stars Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price and Edmund Purdom, who in 1954 had starred in The Egyptian, which has a similar […]

Jan, 28

Quebec ** (1951, John Drew Barrymore, Corinne Calvet, Barbara Rush, Patric Knowles, John Hoyt, Arnold Moss, Don Haggerty) – Classic Movie Review 8068

Director George Templeton’s 1951 romantic historical adventure Quebec is silly, unpersuasive costumed tosh located during the 1830s Canadian battle for independence from Britain. The emphasis is on a soapy personal story in which the governor’s […]

Jan, 27

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