Derek Winnert

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Escape Room * (2019, Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Jay Ellis, Yorick van Wageningen, Tyler Labine, Deborah Ann Woll and Nik Dodani) – Movie Review

Escape Room is watchable but it’s a cliched story, the acting is pretty bad, and the movie is pretty bad too. Six really boring strangers are given boxes and find themselves in mystery rooms, and […]

Jan, 27

It’s a Wonderful World **** (1939, Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Guy Kibbee, Nat Pendleton, Frances Drake Edgar Kennedy, Ernest Truex) – Classic Movie Review 7916

‘I never met a dame yet who wasn’t a nitwit and a lunkhead.’ MGM signed up Paramount studios actress Claudette Colbert to star with their contract artist James Stewart in director W S Van Dyke […]

Dec, 17

China Girl **** (1942, Gene Tierney, George Montgomery, Lynn Bari, Victor McLaglen, Alan Baxter, Sig Ruman) – Classic Movie Review 7790

Director Henry Hathaway’s busy, neat 1942 Twentieth Century Fox wartime adventure-cum-romance China Girl stars Gene Tierney, George Montgomery, Lynn Bari, Victor McLaglen, Alan Baxter and Sig Ruman. It is written by Ben Hecht, based on a […]

Nov, 15

Hannibal Brooks *** (1969, Oliver Reed, Michael J Pollard, John Alderton, Wolfgang Preiss, Karin Baal, Helmuth Lohner) -Classic Movie Review 7770

Producer-director Michael Winner’s fondly remembered 1968 British World War Two caper film Hannibal Brooks is a wartime adventure yarn about an elephant crossing the Alps, starring Oliver Reed in one of his more memorable turns […]

Nov, 10

Any Old Port! ** (1932, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Walter Long, Jacqueline Wells) – Classic Movie Review 7548

‘In port – Mr Laurel and Mr Hardy were just home from a whaling voyage – Mr Hardy shipped as head harpooner; Mr Laurel went along as bait.’ Director James W Horne’s mild 1932 two-reeler […]

Sep, 06

Mrs Soffel *** (1984, Diane Keaton, Mel Gibson, Matthew Modine, Edward Herrmann, Trini Alvarado, Jenny Dundas) – Classic Movie Review 7340

Director Gillian Armstrong’s 1984 drama Mrs Soffel looks good on paper: the then new star Mel Gibson on the crest on a wave, Oscar-winning Diane Keaton in mid-career, and bright new star Matthew Modine in […]

Jul, 25

Desire Me * (1947, Greer Garson, Robert Mitchum, Richard Hart) – Classic Movie Review 7145

Robert Mitchum stars as the presumed dead soldier Paul Aubert, who comes home to Brittany from war service in World War Two to find his battle and German prison camp buddy Jean (Richard Hart, from […]

Jun, 10

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