Derek Winnert

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The Ghost Goes West **** (1935, Robert Donat, Eugene Palette, Jean Parker, Elsa Lanchester) – Classic Movie Review 7190

Robert Donat, Eugene Palette, Jean Parker and Elsa Lanchester all shine brightly in writer-director René Clair’s now creaky seeming but still deliciously enjoyable 1935 fanciful fantasy comedy The Ghost Goes West, with more charm and […]

Jun, 18

The Commuter *** (2018, Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Sam Neill, Elizabeth McGovern, Jonathan Banks) – Movie Review

Liam Neeson is in his element in director Jaume Collet-Serra’s good old-style fun mystery crime thriller flick along Murder on the Orient Express lines, but with some added high-octane action, plus a slick production. I’m […]

Jan, 17

Dinner at Eight ***** (1933, Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Billie Burke, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, May Robson, Jean Hersholt, Lee Tracy, Edmund Lowe) – Classic Movie Review 6300

MGM lavishly throw in many of their big Thirties stars for director George Cukor’s sparkling 1933 comedy about the backstabbing in New York society as hostess Millicent Jordan (Billie Burke) holds a posh dinner party for […]

Nov, 24

Lola ** (1986, Ángela Molina, Patrick Bauchau, Féodor Atkine, Assumpta Serna, Carme Sansa, Pepa López) – Classic Movie Review 6193

Angela Molina gives a powerful performance as the titular Lola, a factory worker who suffers at the hands of her sadistic lover Mario (Féodor Atkine), in co-writer/ director Bigas Luna’s dour, dubbed Spanish suspense thriller. […]

Nov, 05

The Brain [Vengeance] [A Dead Man Seeks His Murderer] ** (1962, Anne Heywood, Peter van Eyck, Cecil Parker, Bernard Lee, Jeremy Spenser, Maxine Audley) – Classic Movie Review 5608

The Brain belongs to a dead tycoon, though surgeons keep it going and it compels one of them, Dr Peter Corrie (Peter van Eyck), to track the tycoon’s killer for Vengeance, as A Dead Man […]

Jun, 14

What’s the Worst That Could Happen? * (2001, Martin Lawrence, Danny DeVito, John Leguizamo, Glenne Headly, Carmen Eiogo, Bernie Mac) – Classic Movie Review 5576

What’s the Worst That Could Happen? This is! Martin Lawrence stars in director Sam Weisman’s 2002 crime comedy thriller as a burglar who vows revenge on the billionaire (Danny DeVito) who shopped him to the […]

Jun, 10

The VIPs *** (1963, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan, Margaret Rutherford, Orson Welles, Maggie Smith, Peter Sallis, Rod Taylor, Linda Christian, Elsa Martinelli) – Classic Movie Review 5557

Director Anthony Asquith and screen-writer Terence Rattigan’s Grand Hotel-type 1963 multi-drama soap opera movie takes place in a fog-bound London Airport, and stars Richard Burton as Paul Andros, a tycoon whose wife Frances Andros (Elizabeth Taylor) […]

Jun, 06

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