Derek Winnert

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The Mirror Has Two Faces *** (1996, Barbra Streisand, Jeff Bridges, Lauren Bacall) – Classic Movie Review 1298

Both faces belong to Barbra Streisand, and (as usual) several hats too, as she’s star, director, co-producer and songwriter of this 1996 release, then her first film for six years. for all its apparent serious […]

Jun, 06

The Blue Angel [Der blaue Engel] ***** (1930, Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti, Hans Albers) – Classic Movie Review 1285

Director Joseph von Sternberg’s 1930 beautifully melancholic classic The Blue Angel [Der blaue Engel] stars his protégé Marlene Dietrich as the alluring nightclub cabaret singer Lola-Lola Frohlich. She marries the fat, fussy but infatuated Professor […]

Jun, 03

Scary Movie 2 (2001, Anna Faris, Regina Hall) – Classic Movie Review 1180

No sequel, my eye! Breaking the promise made by the first movie, ‘No mercy, no shame, no sequel’, the Scary Movie characters are back in the Wayans Bros’s outlandish, pretty sick and mean-spirited 2001 swift […]

May, 06

The Day After Tomorrow (2004, Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal) – Classic Film Review 1086

In co-writer/producer/director Roland Emmerich’s 2004 fantasy thriller, it seems that the weather’s suddenly got much, much worse and a new Ice Age is upon us. ‘It’s incredible!’ says weather expert Professor Dennis Quaid. And incredible’s […]

Apr, 14

The Quiet Ones (Jared Harris, Sam Claflin) – Movie Review

Jared Harris battles a weak screenplay and underpowered direction as an arrogant Oxford University physics professor who assembles a small team of students to conduct an experiment on a teenage girl (Olivia Cooke) with psychiatric problems, […]

Apr, 09

The Music Box ***** (1932, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy) – Classic Movie Review 1056

‘Mr Laurel and Mr Hardy decided to re-organize and re-supervise their entire financial structure. So they took their $3.80 and went into business.’ Directed by James Parrott, this 1932 film is Stan Laurel and Oliver […]

Apr, 05

Urban Legend *** (1998, Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Robert Englund, Brad Dourif, Rebecca Gayheart, Loretta Devine, Joshua Jackson, John Neville, Tara Reid) – Classic Movie Review 629

A film star with rodent problems; mutant alligators living in New York’s sewers; the babysitter getting calls from a killer in the upstairs bedroom; an old lady who dries her cat in the microwave; human […]

Jan, 05

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