Derek Winnert

The Cassandra Crossing ** (1976, Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Martin Sheen) – Classic Movie Review 7644

‘A Plague Infested Train Speeds Across Europe To Certain Death At Cassandra Crossing.’ Sounds fun, doesn’t it? Somehow producers Lee Grade and Carlo Ponti persuaded a large number of first-rate actors to jump aboard a […]

Oct, 07 · in Reviews

On the Double *** (1961, Danny Kaye, Dana Wynter, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Diana Dors, Margaret Rutherford) – Classic Movie Review 7643

Co-writer/ producer/ director Melville Shavelson’s 1961 On the Double provides a witty title for a witty Danny Kaye comedy in which he plays Private First Class Ernie Williams, an American GI who specialises in impersonations […]

Oct, 07 · in Reviews

Mandy *** (2018, Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache, Olwen Fouéré, Ned Dennehy) – 2018 Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Panos Cosmatos’s deranged 1983-set 2018 horror thriller Mandy stars Nicolas Cage and Andrea Riseborough as bearded lumberjack Red and his fantasy paperback-reading artist girlfriend Mandy, who live happily in a secluded cabin in the […]

Oct, 07

Variety [Varieté] **** (1925, Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Lya De Putti) – Classic Movie Review 7642

Director Ewald André Dupont’s 1925 Variety [aka Varieté, or Jealousy or Vaudeville] is an exciting German classic silent melodrama of fierily aroused passion, with an impressive silent movie performance by Emil Jannings as angry, betrayed trapeze artist […]

Oct, 07

A Star Is Born ** (2018, Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott) – Movie Review

A Star Is Born (2018) is a capable piece of film-making and some of it is entertaining but a lot of it is pretty dull, drippy and dreary, surprisingly with Lady Gaga (aka Stefani Germanotta) marginally […]

Oct, 06

The Last Command **** (1928, Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell) – Classic Movie Review 7641

Emil Jannings and William Powell star in the 1928 Oscar-winning silent classic The Last Command as two men who used to be political as well as personal adversaries in revolutionary Russia, who are forced by international politics […]

Oct, 06

Brown of Harvard *** (1926, William Haines, Ralph Bushman, Mary Brian, Jack Pickford) – Classic Movie Review 7640

Director Jack Conway’s 1926 MGM silent drama Brown of Harvard stars William Haines, Jack Pickford and Mary Brian and is based on the hit 1906 Broadway play by Rida Johnson Young, who also co-wrote the popular music for the play with Melvin Ellis. Haines does well […]

Oct, 06

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