Derek Winnert

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Jeux interdits [Forbidden Games] **** (1952, Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amédée) – Classic Movie Review 2356

Director René Clément’s heart-tugging war drama is the (honorary) 1953 Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film first released in the United States during 1952. Jeux interdits [Forbidden Games] focuses on the terrible fallout effects […]

Apr, 04

Cavalcade **** (1933, Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O’Connor) – Classic Movie Review 2215

Director Frank Lloyd’s 1933 drama Cavalcade is a creaky but still entertaining and stirring nostalgic movie version of Noël Coward’s sentimental English patriotic pageant stage play. It was a three-Oscar winner, for Best Picture, Best Director […]

Feb, 26

The Hurt Locker ***** (2008, Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse) – Classic Movie Review 549

Director Kathryn (Point Break) Bigelow’s sensationally sizzling 2008 battlefield movie follows the story of an elite US Army bomb disposal squad in Baghdad during the Iraq War. Bigelow became the first woman to win an […]

Dec, 19

The Deer Hunter ***** (1978, Robert De Niro, John Savage, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep) – Classic Movie Review 346

The all-time great 1978 war drama film The Deer Hunter is co-written and directed by Michael Cimino. Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and John Savage star thrillingly as Slavic-American steelworkers whose lives are upended after […]

Nov, 01

The Sound of Music ***** (1965, Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, Daniel Truhitte, Nicholas Hammond, Richard Haydn, Anna Lee) – Classic Movie Review 57

The hills are alive… Is this the world’s most popular musical? Maybe it is! The Tony award-winner for Best Musical became the Oscar-winner for Best Film. The original Broadway production opened in November 1959 and […]

Jul, 17

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