Derek Winnert

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Just the Way You Are * (1984, Kristy McNichol, Michael Ontkean, André Dussolier, Robert Carradine) – Classic Movie Review 12,177

Kristy McNichol struggles valiantly in Edouard Molinaro’s superficial 1984 romantic comedy-drama disability film Just the Way You Are. Director Edouard Molinaro’s 1984 superficial disability film Just the Way You Are is a very bitty movie, […]

Jun, 16

Five Days One Summer **** (1982, Sean Connery, Betsy Brantley, Lambert Wilson, Jennifer Hilary, Isabel Dean, Anna Massey, Gérard Buhr, Sheila Reid) – Classic Movie Review 10,647

Producer-director Fred Zinnemann’s 1982 drama of incestuous love Five Days One Summer is a gorgeous looking 1930s-set Alps soap opera in which ageing, respectable married Dr Douglas Meredith (Sean Connery) and a young lady whom […]

Dec, 11

Heidi *** (1937, Shirley Temple, Jean Hersholt, Arthur Treacher, Helen Westley) – Classic Movie Review 9099

‘Shirley’s a Little Swiss Miss in the Loveliest Story of Her Career!’ Director Allan Dwan’s 1937 children’s film Heidi is based on the much loved book by Johanna Spyri and stars an ideally cast Shirley […]

Nov, 26

A Cure for Wellness * (2016, Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs, Mia Goth) – Movie Review

It is good to have a horror movie in the mainstream, good to provide stonking great star roles for the always welcome and talented Dane DeHaan and Jason Isaacs, and good to have a great looking movie. That’s […]

Feb, 22

Hannibal [Annibale] ** (1959, Victor Mature, Gabriele Ferzetti, Rita Gam) – Classic Movie Review 3499

Victor Mature packed up his trunk and went off to Belgrade, Serbia, to film directors Edgar G Ulmer and Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia’s 1959 Italian historical adventure movie about the Carthaginian general Hannibal (247-182 BC). In the story, […]

Mar, 24

The Mortal Storm ***** (1940, Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Robert Young, Robert Stack) – Classic Movie Review 2701

Director Frank Borzage’s strong, sensitive and significant 1940 drama finds the MGM studio in full patriotic mode, doing its bit for the free world by trying to stir up the wartime American public against the […]

Jul, 16

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