Derek Winnert

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Blonde Venus **** (1932, Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant) – Classic Movie Review 1274

Svengali-style producer-director Josef von Sternberg’s 1932 vintage romance provides a famous role for his protégé Marlene Dietrich as Helen Faraday, who works as the Blonde Venus chanteuse in smooth young millionaire playboy Nick Townsend’s nightclub. […]

Jun, 01

The Blue Dahlia ***** (1946, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Doris Dowling, Howard Da Silva, Tom Powers, Hugh Beaumont, Howard Freeman, Don Costello, Will Wright) – Classic Movie Review 1,012

The great 1946 film noir crime thriller The Blue Dahlia stars Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake and William Bendix, and boasts Raymond Chandler’s first and only original screenplay. Chandler called her ‘Moronica’ Lake and Ladd a […]

Mar, 29

An Affair To Remember ***** (1957, Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning) – Classic Movie Review 812

Ideal stars Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr are cast in the second of their three movies together as handsome playboy Nickie Ferrante and beautiful nightclub singer Terry McKay who enjoy a romance while on a […]

Feb, 08

Farewell, My Lovely **** (1975, Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Harry Dean Stanton, Anthony Zerbe, Joe Spinell, Sylvia Miles) – Classic Movie Review 740

Director Dick Richards just caught Robert Mitchum, aged 58, while he was still in his world-weary prime in 1975 to play classic private eye Philip Marlowe in this enjoyable, taut and atmospheric remake of Raymond […]

Jan, 25

Catwoman ** (2004, Halle Berry, Sharon Stone, Benjamin Bratt, Lambert Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 567

Directed by Pitof in 2004, this Batman spinoff, using the comic book characters of Bob Kane, was eagerly awaited but turned out to be only passable and a bit of a damp squib. Inheriting the mantle […]

Dec, 22

Don Jon **** (2013, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, Tony Danza, Glenne Headly, Brie Larson) – Movie Review

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is funny and appealing as New Jersey guy called Jon, oddly enough. He is obsessively dedicated to watching porn and masturbating, which he prefers to the real thing, even when the sizzling Scarlett […]

Nov, 05

Casablanca ***** (1942, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre, S Z Sakall, Dooley Wilson, Leonid Kinskey, Marcel Dalio, Madeleine Lebeau) – Classic Movie Review 1

You must remember this: arguably, the world’s best loved film and most perfect piece of cinema escapism. It didn’t look like it would amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world when Warner […]

Jun, 22

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