Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "female protagonist"

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My Geisha ** (1962, Shirley MacLaine, Yves Montand, Edward G Robinson, Robert Cummings, Yôko Tani) – Classic Movie Review 11,257

‘It’s the WACKIEST HOAX That Ever Turned the Screen Hilarious!’ Director Jack Cardiff’s 1962 My Geisha stars Shirley MacLaine as famous movie star actress Lucy Dell who goes to Japan and masquerades as a geisha […]

Jun, 01

Those Who Wish Me Dead * (2021, Angelina Jolie, Nicholas Hoult, Finn Little, Aidan Gillen, Jon Bernthal) – Movie Review

[Spoiler alert] Director Taylor Sheridan’s Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021) is a perplexingly poor action thriller with Angelina Jolie under-employed and under-engaged as troubled fire-fighter Hannah, who befriends a 14-year-old boy called Connor (Finn […]

May, 17

It **** (1927, Clara Bow, Antonio Moreno, William Austin) – Classic Movie Review 11,091

Director Clarence G Badger’s 1927 black and white American silent romantic comedy film It stars Clara Bow, the girl with ‘it’ sex appeal, who is a smasher as Betty Lou Spence, a department store assistant chasing her shop-boss […]

Apr, 11

The Man Who Changed His Mind [The Man Who Lived Again] *** (1936, Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, John Loder, Frank Cellier, Lyn Harding) – Classic Movie Review 10,833

Director Robert Stevenson’s 1936 black and white British science fiction horror film The Man Who Changed his Mind stars Boris Karloff and Anna Lee, is produced by Gainsborough Pictures and is also known as The Man Who Lived Again, […]

Jan, 26

Passion of Mind ** (2000, Demi Moore, Eloise Eonnet, Joss Ackland, William Fichtner, Sinéad Cusack, Peter Riegert, Stellan Skarsgård, Julianne Nicholson) – Classic Movie Review 10,820

Joss Ackland recalled: ”Then there was Passion of Mind in 2000 with Demi Moore. Terrible script. Awful, actually. But I needed the money.’ And he called Moore ‘alright, but not very bright or talented’. Director […]

Jan, 22

The Real McCoy * (1993, Kim Basinger, Val Kilmer, Terence Stamp) – Classic Movie Review 10,743

Director Russell Mulcahy’s 1993 film The Real McCoy stars Kim Basinger as Karen McCoy, an expert cat-burgling ex-con trying to go straight, who gets out of prison but is dragged back into a life of […]

Jan, 03

Home Before Dark *** (1958, Jean Simmons, Dan O’Herlihy, Rhonda Fleming, Efrem Zimbalist Jr) – Classic Movie Review 10,571

Rhonda Fleming called Mervyn LeRoy’s 1958 drama film Home Before Dark her favourite role, saying: ‘It was a marvellous stretch’. Jean Simmons, Dan O’Herlihy and Efrem Zimbalist Jr also star. It is written by Eileen […]

Nov, 20

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