Derek Winnert

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Live, Love and Learn *** (1937, Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Robert Benchley) – Classic Movie Review 6975

Director George Fitzmaurice’s 1937 movie Live, Love and Learn stars Rosalind Russell as a wealthy sophisticate who weds a poor artist (Montgomery). MGM’s vehicle for its two stars is a routine but still often amusing […]

Apr, 28

End of Days *** (1999, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne, Robin Tunney, Rod Steiger, C C H Pounder, Kevin Pollak) – Classic Movie Review 6796

Director Peter Hyams’s exciting 1999 Sci-fi thriller stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, still in his prime as he takes on his biggest foe yet – Satan – played with great aplomb by Gabriel Byrne. Schwarzenegger’s character Jericho […]

Mar, 13

Chance at Heaven *** (1933, Joel McCrea, Ginger Rogers, Marian Nixon, Andy Devine, Lucien Littlefield) – Classic Movie Review 6720

The entertaining 1933 American Pre-Code romantic drama film Chance at Heaven stars Ginger Rogers and Joel McCrea in enjoyable performances.  Director William A Seiter’s far-fetched but thoroughly entertaining 1933 American Pre-Code romantic drama Chance at […]

Feb, 22

Week-End at the Waldorf *** (1945, Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, Robert Benchley, Edward Arnold) – Classic Movie Review 6717

MGM’s expensive, sprightly 1945 Week-End at the Waldorf remakes Grand Hotel, relocated to wartime New York City, and the Waldorf-Astoria, with amiable performances from Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon and Van Johnson. Director Robert […]

Feb, 21

Slightly Dangerous *** (1943, Lana Turner, Robert Young, Dame May Whitty, Walter Brennan, Eugene Pallette, Alan Mowbray, Florence Bates) – Classic Movie Review 6706

Director Wesley Ruggles’s 1943 MGM movie stars Lana Turner as Peggy Evans, a bored 21-year-old soda counter waitress who leaves her hick American town for New York, where she gets a make-over and masquerades as industrialist […]

Feb, 18

Step Lively *** (1944, Frank Sinatra, George Murphy, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria DeHaven, Anne Jeffreys. Walter Slezak, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 6588

Director Tim Whelan’s 1944 RKO movie showcase for Frank Sinatra is a pleasingly enjoyable follow-up to Higher and Higher (1943), reuniting star and director. It an engaging musical remake of the Marx Brothers’ 1938 film […]

Jan, 21

The Last of England **** (1987, Tilda Swinton, Spencer Leigh, ‘Spring’ Mark Adley) – Classic Movie Review 6496

Director Derek Jarman’s 1987 British renaissance experimental film provides a furious personal broadside, using the sometimes modest means at his disposal – old home movies and Super-8, as well as disturbing scenes of crumbling inner-city […]

Dec, 30

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