Derek Winnert

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London Can Take It! **** (1940, voice of Quentin Reynolds) – Classic Movie Review 9176

London Can Take It! (1940)  is a classic 10-minute documentary from ace British documentarians Humphrey Jennings and Harry Watt on the theme of a tribute to the bravery and resourcefulness of Londoners in the Blitz. […]

Dec, 20

The Bells Go Down *** (1943, Tommy Trinder, James Mason, Philip Friend) – Classic Movie Review 9126

Director Basil Dearden’s 1943 The Bells Go Down has its appeal but it suffers by comparison with the same year’s Fires Were Started. You didn’t expect to see Tommy Trinder and James Mason in the […]

Dec, 04

The Goldfinch **** (2019, Oakes Fegley, Ansel Elgort, Nicole Kidman, Boyd Gaines, Luke Wilson, Sarah Paulson, Finn Wolfhard, Jeffrey Wright) – Movie Review

Director John Crowley’s smart 2019 drama The Goldfinch stars Oakes Fegley as a 13-year-old boy, Theo Decker, whose mother is killed in a terrorist bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and […]

Sep, 28

The Nun *** (2018, Demián Bichir, Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Bloquet) – Movie Review

Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night in the convent with that pesky Nun, in this spin off from the Conjuring universe. Corin Hardy ‘s The Nun (2018) is a silly but […]

Sep, 07

Hiroshima Mon Amour ***** (1959, Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson) – Classic Movie Review 4885

The debut movie of the all-time great director Alain Resnais is a beautifully crafted gem, with an intelligent, challenging screenplay by Marguerite Duras. Emmanuelle Riva stars as Elle, a French actress who has an affair […]

Jan, 13

Desperate Journey *** (1942, Errol Flynn, Alan Hale Sr, Ronald Reagan, Nancy Coleman, Raymond Massey, Arthur Kennedy, Ronald Sinclair, Albert Bassermann, Sig Ruman) Classic Movie Review 4782

Director Raoul Walsh’s 1942 wartime action adventure movie tells an amusing shaggy dog story about five guys on a bombing mission shot down in Germany and trying to get back to England with vital information […]

Dec, 10

American Pastoral ** (2016, Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly, Dakota Fanning, Peter Riegert, Molly Parker, Samantha Mathis, Rupert Evans) – Movie Review

Philip Roth’s novel won him the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1998 but you would never know why from this earnest, sincere and well meaning but ponderous and struggling 2016 drama from Ewan McGregor in his […]

Nov, 12

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