Derek Winnert

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Life Itself **** (2018, Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Annette Bening, Antonio Banderas, Olivia Cooke) – Movie Review

Writer-director Dan Fogelman’s romantic drama Life Itself is thoroughly entertaining, charming, and even beguiling. As tears mix with joy, Life Itself is a celebration of life itself. Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde star as young […]

Oct, 15

I Take This Woman ** (1940, Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, Verree Teasdale, Kent Taylor, Laraine Day, Mona Barrie, Jack Carson) – Classic Movie Review 7379

Spencer Tracy stars as a New York doctor called Karl Decker who finds it isn’t love after all when he takes this troubled society woman Georgi Gragore (Hedy Lamarr) as his wife, in director W S […]

Jul, 31

Mourning Becomes Electra ** (1947, Rosalind Russell, Michael Redgrave, Raymond Massey, Katina Paxinou, Kirk Douglas, Nancy Coleman, Leo Genn, Henry Hull) – Classic Movie Review 7263

Ah, yes, ‘Mother and Daughter Loving the Same Man!’ That idea could make an American romcom or it could be a Greek tragedy. Certainly here we don’t see the funny side of it. Writer/ producer/ […]

Jul, 07

First Reformed ***** (2017, Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Cedric the Entertainer) – Movie Review

Ethan Hawke gives a brilliant performance First Reformed (2017) – it must be his best so far – as the Reverend Holler, the already troubled, anguished priest of a historic tourist church with no congregation in upstate […]

May, 31

The Leisure Seeker * (2017 Helen Mirren, Donald Sutherland, Christian McKay, Janel Moloney) –

Mirren and Sutherland give impeccable performances as troubled oldsters in this quirky bitter-sweet comedy road drama in which they set of in their vintage camper van The Leisure Seeker for one last ride. International treasures […]

Apr, 19

Susan Slade *** (1961, Troy Donahue, Dorothy McGuire, Connie Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 6821

Writer-producer-director Delmer Daves’s plush and effective coming-of-age weepie is based on Doris Hume’s novel The Sin of Susan Slade and centres on precocious Susan Slade (Connie Stevens), a teenage daughter who gets pregnant, after a […]

Mar, 18

The Sin of Madelon Claudet [The Lullaby] ** (1931, Helen Hayes, Robert Young, Neil Hamilton, Lewis Stone) – Classic Movie Review 6815

Helen Hayes won the 1932 Best Actress Oscar for her wild overacting as the newly-wed French country woman Madelon Claudet, who is bullied by her new mother-in-law, after marrying US artist Larry (Neil Hamilton), who […]

Mar, 18

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