Derek Winnert

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Ondine **** (2009, Colin Farrell, Alicja Bachleda, Dervla Kirwan, Alison Barry, Stephen Rea) – Classic Movie Review 5527

Colin Farrell is exceptionally good – warm, appealing and surprisingly convincing as stout-hearted Irish fisherman Syracuse – in writer-director Neil Jordan’s 2009 Splash!-style movie. It has more than a touch of the old Irish blarney to […]

Jun, 01

Captains Courageous **** (1937, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore, Freddie Bartholomew, Mickey Rooney, Melvyn Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 5019

Director Victor Fleming’s 1937 MGM movie of the novel by Rudyard Kipling is a bit creaky, dated and faded now, but it is still very enjoyable and entertaining thanks to the well-told, rattlingly good yarn, […]

Feb, 10

Undersea Girl * (1957, Mara Corday, Pat Conway, Dan Seymour, Florence Marly) – Classic Movie Review 4957

Mara Corday, Pat Conway and Dan Seymour star as a reporter, a US Navy investigator and a police lieutenant who join the hunt for loot stashed undersea in a scuttled vessel in director John Peyser’s […]

Jan, 28

Edge of Darkness **** (1943, Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston, Judith Anderson, Ruth Gordon, Nancy Coleman, John Beal, Helmut Dantine) – Classic Movie Review 4,752

Errol Flynn stars as Gunnar Brogge, the leader of the Trollness Norwegian underground, in the stirringly done 1943 patriotic wartime film Edge of Darkness. Warner Bros’ World War Two patriotic wartime toast to the brave […]

Dec, 05

Johnny Frenchman ** (1945, Françoise Rosay, Tom Walls, Patricia Roc, Paul Dupuis, Ralph Michael, Frederick Piper, Arthur Hambling, Richard George, Bill Blewitt) – Classic Movie Review 4694

Director Charles Frend’s well-meaning 1945 wartime drama is an unusually weak Ealing Studios production – one of their rare disappointments – about fishing rivalry between Cornish and Breton fishermen in the English or French Channel, […]

Nov, 24

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer * (1998, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr, Brandy Norwood, Mekhi Phifer) – Classic Movie Review 3512

Director Danny Cannon’s grim 1998 horror film I Still Know What You Did Last Summer is an even more humourless, even more mechanical slasher movie sequel to the iffy 1997 hit I Know What You […]

Apr, 02

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin ** (2001, Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz, John Hurt, Christian Bale) – Classic Movie Review 3085

Director John Madden’s 2001 movie version of the Louis de Bernières international bestseller was immensely popular and has some things to recommend it. But it is bland, trite, clichéd and miscast, with all the book’s […]

Nov, 24

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