Derek Winnert

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Cat People *** (1982, Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard) – Classic Movie Review 5485

Co-writer/ director Paul Schrader’s under-rated 1982 horror movie remakes the 1942 chiller classic Cat People. Nastassja Kinski stars as the beautiful young woman called Irena Gallier who was raised by adoptive parents. Now she is […]

May, 20

Women in Love **** (1969, Glenda Jackson, Jennie Linden, Alan Bates, Oliver Reed) – Classic Movie Review 5455

Director Ken Russell’s safe and successful 1969 transition to the movies of D H Lawrence’s great novel Women in Love stars Glenda Jackson, who won her first Oscar for her part as Gudrun Brangwen. The […]

May, 14

Married to the Mob **** (1988, Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell, Mercedes Ruehl, Alec Baldwin, Trey Wilson, Joan Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 5351

Director Jonathan Demme’s 1988 sweet and sophisticated Mob movie Married to the Mob stars a drop-dead gorgeous Michelle Pfeiffer, who turns in another winning performance as Angela deMarco, a woman who finds herself in mortal peril […]

Apr, 27

The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki [Hymyilevä mies] **** (2016, Jarkko Lahti, Oona Airola, Eero Milonoff) – Movie Review

I never thought I’d say this about a boxing movie –  it is sweet! But the this isn’t your usual boxing movie. It’s really a romance, and certainly a fine romance. Jarkko Lahti stars as […]

Apr, 23

The Temptress *** (1926, Greta Garbo, Antonio Moreno, Lionel Barrymore) – Classic Movie Review 5328

Directors Fred Niblo and Mauritz Stiller’s 1926 silent movie classic stars Greta Garbo, who commands the screen playing Elena, a woman who drives men mad with desire and leads them to commit murder and then […]

Apr, 20

Flesh and the Devil ****½ (1927, John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson) – Classic Movie Review 5326

This famous 1927 silent movie is the first of seven Greta Garbo films directed by Clarence Brown and first of four with her beloved favourite co-star, John Gilbert. Garbo stars as Felicitas, who seduces various […]

Apr, 20

The Single Standard *** (1929, Greta Garbo, Nils Asther, John Mack Brown, Dorothy Sebastian, Lane Chandler) – Classic Movie Review 5323

Director John S Robertson’s soapy 1929 silent movie drama, based on Adela Rogers St Johns’s 1928 romantic novel, is remembered, if at all, really only because it stars Greta Garbo. But that is enough! Garbo […]

Apr, 20

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