Derek Winnert

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Anastasia ** (1997, voices of Meg Ryan, Christopher Lloyd, Kelsey Grammer, Hank Azaria, Bernadette Peters, Angela Lansbury, Kirsten Dunst) – Classic Movie Review 2649

Directors Don Bluth and Gary Goldman’s 1997 animated feature Anastasia is a rather feeble, none too specially animated musical feature film retelling of the famous story. Despite all the talent involved, it proves an awkward […]

Jun, 27

Crossroads *** (1942, William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, Basil Rathbone, Claire Trevor) – Classic Movie Review 2595

Director Jack Conway’s glitzy 1942 mystery film noir thriller is set in Paris in 1935 and tells an engrossing story with classic vintage actors. Despite being made during World War Two and its setting, there’s no hint of […]

Jun, 14

Mr Arkadin [Confidential Report] **** (1955, Orson Welles, Peter van Eyck, Michael Redgrave) – Classic Movie Review 2450

Writer-director Orson Welles’s Mr Arkadin, retitled Confidential Report in Britain and some parts of Europe, was shot throughout Europe in 1954. Filming took place in several Spanish locations, including the Costa Brava, Segovia, Valladolid and Madrid, as […]

May, 03

Suture *** (1993, Dennis Haysbert, Mel Harris, Sab Shimono) – Classic Movie Review 2139

Writer-directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s supposedly arty, 1993 black and white neo-noir ‘thriller’ is extremely annoying, but it surprisingly found some fervent admirers and, even more strangely, still stays in the mind years later. Michael […]

Jan, 31

Before I Go to Sleep ** (2014, Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong) – Movie Review

Nicole Kidman stars as Christine Lucas, a woman who wakes up every day remembering nothing as her memory is wiped every night during sleep after a traumatic accident in her past. As she tries to stitch together the […]

Sep, 04

Mulholland Drive **** (2001, Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Robert Forster, Ann Miller, Dan Hedaya) – Classic Movie Review 1113

This crazy story of Tinsel Town’s flotsam and jetsam is an intriguing, gorgeous looking but utterly unfathomable 2001 surreal noir movie from the master of the macabre, writer-director David Lynch. He landed a Best Director […]

Apr, 18

The Gold Rush ***** (1925, Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray) – Classic Movie Review 1052

Producer-writer-director-star Charles Chaplin’s classic 1925 silent comedy is one of his masterpieces. Chaplin said it was the film for which he most wanted to be remembered. It was the highest grossing silent comedy and the fifth […]

Apr, 05

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