Derek Winnert

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Tora! Tora! Tora! *** (1970, Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, James Whitmore, Jason Robards, Edward Andrews, Leon Ames, George Macready) – Classic Movie Review 8412

Director Richard Fleischer’s 1970 Tora! Tora! Tora! is a huge-budget wartime disaster movie that re-creates the whole story of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Sunday  7 December 1941, as US code breakers work […]

Apr, 29

Dragon Ball Super: Broly **** (2018, voices Masako Nozawa, Shin Aomori, Bryn Apprill, Ryô Horikawa, Bin Shimada) – Movie Review

Director Tatsuya Nagamine’s Japanese anime Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018) is dazzlingly bright and lively, and a whole lot of fast-moving fun, with spectacular prolonged frenetic sequences of action and violence, and a terrific soundtrack. […]

Jan, 23

The High Bright Sun [McGuire, Go Home!] ** (1965, Dirk Bogarde, George Chakiris, Susan Strasberg) – Classic Movie Review 6807

Dirk Bogarde is on commanding form in director Ralph Thomas’s otherwise ordinary 1965 adventure movie as Major McGuire, an intelligence officer in the British Army occupying Cyprus in the Fifties (it is 1957) during Cyprus’s war […]

Mar, 15

Battle of the Bulge **** (1965, Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan, Ty Hardin, Charles Bronson) – Classic Movie Review 6,241

Ken Annakin’s truly epic 1965 World War Two wartime action film Battle of the Bulge is a sweeping, involving, often exciting battle movie. Robert Shaw stars in the real-life story about an ace commanding Panzer […]

Nov, 13

Days of Glory *** (1944, Gregory Peck, Tamara Toumanova, Alan Reed) – Classic Movie Review 6126

Director Jacques Tourneur’s 1944 movie is memorable mostly for one thing, as Gregory Peck and Tamara Toumanova both make their first screen appearances in this heartfelt, convincingly handled wartime story about plucky Russian guerrillas plotting […]

Oct, 22

Beau Hunks *** (1931, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy) – Classic Movie Review 5410

‘Love comes: Mr Hardy is at last conscious of the grand passion – Mr Laurel isn’t even conscious of the Grand Canyon.’ Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy enlist in the Foreign Legion when Ollie tries […]

May, 07

Bwana Devil * (1952, Robert Stack, Barbara Britton, Nigel Bruce) – Classic Movie Review 5198

‘The Miracle of the Age!!! A LION in your lap! A LOVER in your arms!’ Writer-producer-director Arch Oboler’s 1952 adventure thriller has the enormous distinction of being the very first 3D sound feature movie in English […]

Mar, 25

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