Derek Winnert

To the Victor ** (1948, Dennis Morgan, Viveca Lindfors, Bruce Bennett, Victor Francen, Dorothy Malone) – Classic Movie Review 7982

Director Delmer Daves’s well-meaning, acceptable 1948 drama To the Victor tells a romantic drama tale of gloom and doom, and stars Dennis Morgan, Viveca Lindfors, Bruce Bennett, Victor Francen and Dorothy Malone. Morgan stars as […]

Jan, 05 · in Reviews

Night Unto Night ** (1949, Ronald Reagan, Viveca Lindfors, Broderick Crawford) – Classic Movie Review 7981

Director Don Siegel’s intriguing and offbeat but rather ploddingly handled 1949 Warner Bros black and white romantic drama Night unto Night stars Ronald Reagan, Viveca Lindfors, Rosemary DeCamp and Broderick Crawford. Lindfors and Reagan play […]

Jan, 05 · in Reviews

Where’s That Fire? *** (1939, Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt) – Classic Movie Review 7980

Director Marcel Varnel’s 1939 British comedy Where’s That Fire? Stars Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt, who fire on all cylinders in Hay’s slightly patchy but generally very funny final fling for Gainsborough Pictures […]

Jan, 04

Where’s Poppa? **** (1970, George Segal, Ruth Gordon, Ron Leibman) – Classic Movie Review 7979

Director Carl Reiner’s wicked 1970 comedy Where’s Poppa? is a hilarious black farce, with marvellous comedy performances from the treasurable George Segal and Ruth Gordon as the Jewish attorney Gordon Hocheiser and his grotesque, crazy, […]

Jan, 04

Shoplifters [Manbiki kazoku] ***** (2018, Lily Franky, Sakura Andô, Mayu Matsuoka, Jyo Kairi, Miyu Sasaki) – Movie Review

Writer-director Hirokazu Koreeda’s warm and wonderful Shoplifters (2018) won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018. It focuses on a poor Japanese family of small-time thieves, shoplifting to make ends meet, who take in […]

Jan, 04

Bad Times at the El Royale **** (2018, Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson, Chris Hemsworth, Jon Hamm, Cailee Spaeny, Lewis Pullman) – Movie Review

In 1969, several strangers – an old priest (Jeff Bridges) with a liking for scotch and money, but with early onset dementia, a struggling African American female singer (Cynthia Erivo), a talkative salesman (Jon Hamm) […]

Jan, 04

The Changeling **** (1980, George C Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 7978

Director Peter Medak’s 1980 Canadian film The Changeling is a truly creepy, scary and effective spook-house horror movie. George C Scott is excellent as the widowed musician / composer Professor John Russell, who moves from […]

Jan, 04

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