Derek Winnert

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The Next of Kin **** (1942, Mervyn Johns, John Chandos, Nova Pilbeam, Stephen Murray) – Classic Movie Review 8164

Director Thorold Dickinson’s fascinating 1942 British black and white World War Two wartime propaganda thriller, about careless talk costing lives, was expanded by Ealing Studios from an army training film commissioned by the British War […]

Feb, 22

Dunkirk ** (2017, Fionn Whitehead, Aneurin Barnard, Mark Rylance, Tom Glynn-Carney, Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh, James D’Arcy, Cillian Murphy, Harry Styles) – Movie Review

Writer-director Christopher Nolan retells the World War Two Dunkirk story at this weird and unhappy point in Britain’s history with Europe. Why? It’s a mystery. He’s never dabbled in history before, and he provides no clues […]

Jul, 21

The Desert Rats *** (1953, Richard Burton, James Mason, Robert Newton, Robert Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 5408

Director Robert Wise’s standard studio-bound 1953 film dramatisation of the World War Two Tobruk campaign is a fairly involving war action adventure, thanks to the well-crafted 20th Century Fox studio production, the stalwart British players […]

May, 07

All Quiet on the Western Front ***** (1930, Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray) – Classic Movie Review 3426

Director Lewis Milestone is true to the seriousness and pacificism of German author Erich Maria Remarque’s novel in this astonishing film to come out of Hollywood, which still has the ability to shock and move […]

Feb, 28

The Monuments Men *** (2014, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Cate Blanchett, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville) – Movie Review

George Clooney directs himself as Frank Stokes, who gets together an unlikely, unfit, over-the-hill World War Two military platoon of art blokes to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners. They’re particularly after […]

Feb, 12

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