Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

They Met in Bombay *** (1941, Clark Gable, Rosalind Russell, Peter Lorre, Reginald Owen, Jessie Ralph) – Classic Movie Review 6708

Director Clarence Brown’s entertaining 1941 MGM wartime comedy crime adventure stars a great vintage line-up in Clark Gable, Rosalind Russell, Peter Lorre, Reginald Owen and Jessie Ralph. Gable plays jewel thief Gerald Meldrick and Russell plays sophisticated […]

Feb, 18 · in Uncategorized

Star Wars: The Last Jedi ** (2017, Mark Hamill, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Carrie Fisher, Domhnall Gleeson, Laura Dern, Kelly Marie Tran) – Movie Review

Writer-director Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi is nominated for four Oscars and has earned a fortune ($1,311,425,821 by 28 January 2018) but it is a letdown and certainly comes complete with a full cargo […]

Feb, 18 · in Uncategorized

Detective Chinatown 2 *** (2018, Baoqiang Wang, Haoran Liu, Yang Xiao, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Michael Pitt) – Movie Review

Detective Chinatown 2 is that rarest of all kinds of movies – a wacky slapstick action comedy serial killer thriller. With the goofy performances, and general air of carefree silly fun, you’d think they couldn’t […]

Feb, 18

Johnny Eager *** (1942, Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Edward Arnold) – Classic Movie Review 6707

Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1942 MGM movie is a half-way good gangster picture with a convincing atmosphere and a commendably taut pace, in which nice girl Lisbeth Bard (Lana Turner) falls for vicious mobster Johnny Eager […]

Feb, 18

Slightly Dangerous *** (1943, Lana Turner, Robert Young, Dame May Whitty, Walter Brennan, Eugene Pallette, Alan Mowbray, Florence Bates) – Classic Movie Review 6706

Director Wesley Ruggles’s 1943 MGM movie stars Lana Turner as Peggy Evans, a bored 21-year-old soda counter waitress who leaves her hick American town for New York, where she gets a make-over and masquerades as industrialist […]

Feb, 18

Tomorrow Is Forever *** (1946, Orson Welles, Claudette Colbert, George Brent, Lucile Watson, Richard Long, Natalie Wood) – Classic Movie Review 6705

The contrived 1946 tear-jerking wartime romantic drama movie Tomorrow Is Forever is all but forgotten, even though it stars the unforgettable Orson Welles and Claudette Colbert. Director Irving Pichel’s contrived 1946 tear-jerking black-and-white wartime romantic […]

Feb, 17

Tomorrow Is Another Day **** (1951, Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Lurene Tuttle, Bobby Hyatt, Ray Teal) – Classic Movie Review 6704

‘You can’t dance. What did you come up here for? ‘ ‘To meet somebody.’ ‘I don’t give private lessons.’ Director Felix E Feist’s short and snappy 1951 Warner Bros film noir crime thriller Tomorrow Is Another […]

Feb, 17

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