Derek Winnert

Caesar and Cleopatra *** (1945, Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger, Cecil Parker, Flora Robson, Francis L Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 7427

George Bernard Shaw’s clever, though minor play Caesar and Cleopatra is perfectly cast for the screen in 1945: Claude Rains as the ageing Roman conqueror Julius Caesar and Vivien Leigh as the young Nile beauty […]

Aug, 11 · in Reviews

The Happy Ending *** (1969, Jean Simmons, John Forsythe, Shirley Jones, Lloyd Bridges, Dick Shawn, Nanette Fabray, Bobby Darin, Tina Louise, Teresa Wright) – Classic Movie Review 7426

Writer-producer-director Richard Brooks’s 1969 drama The Happy Ending stars Jean Simmons as a middle-aged American woman who looks back on a long, unhappy marriage as she walks out on her husband and family in order […]

Aug, 11 · in Reviews

The Meg * (2018, Jason Statham, Bingbing Li, Rainn Wilson) – Movie Review

Okay, so we are not expecting a remake of Citizen Kane any time soon from Jason Statham, but really The Meg’s pretty much the dregs. It says something about where we are today that this is the […]

Aug, 10

Young Billy Young *** (1969, Robert Mitchum, Angie Dickinson, Robert Walker Jr) – Classic Movie Review 7425

Writer-director Burt Kennedy’s 1969 Young Billy Young is a handsomely produced Western with a grim-looking Robert Mitchum as a peace-loving, but dogged lawman, First Deputy Ben Kane, seeking his son’s killer. Kane takes a job […]

Aug, 10

Young Bess *** (1953, Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton, Kathleen Byron, Kay Walsh, Guy Rolfe, Cecil Kellaway) – Classic Movie Review 7424

MGM’s well-crafted 1953 Technicolor historical biopic film Young Bess stars Jean Simmons as the young Queen Elizabeth I, Stewart Granger as her suitor, Charles Laughton as Henry VIII, and Deborah Kerr as Catherine Parr. Director […]

Aug, 10

Howl’s Moving Castle [Hauru no ugoku shiro] ***** (2004, voices of Chieko Baishô, Takuya Kimura, Tatsuya Gashûin) – Classic Movie Review 7423

Writer-director Hayao Miyazaki’s dazzlingly brilliant Japanese anime love story animation Howl’s Moving Castle [Hauru no ugoku shiro] is based on the novel by Diana Wynne Jones ((credited as Daiana Win Jônzu). It is a Studio Ghibli […]

Aug, 10

The Blue Lagoon *** (1949, Jean Simmons, Donald Houston, Susan Stranks, Peter Rudolph Jones, Noel Purcell, Cyril Cusack, Maurice Denham, James Hayter) – Classic Movie Review 7422

Following a 1923 silent, director Frank Launder’s 1949 The Blue Lagoon is the original Forties film version of Henry De Vere Stacpoole’s novel about a boy and girl, marooned on a desert island, who grow […]

Aug, 10

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