Derek Winnert

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Easy Virtue *** (1928, Isabel Jeans, Franklin Dyall, Eric Bransby Williams, Robin Irvine, Ian Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 2287

‘Virtue is its own reward’ they say — but ‘easy virtue’ is society’s reward for a slandered reputation. Director Alfred Hitchcock’s 1928 romantic film is a rather unsatisfactory silent movie of Noël Coward’s interesting 1924 […]

Mar, 20

The Go-Between ***** (1971, Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Dominic Guard, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave) – Classic Movie Review 2213

Director Joseph Losey and his screenwriter Harold Pinter together fashion this most ravishing and touching 1971 film out of L P Hartley’s marvellous, delicate novel about the divided loyalties of a young boy (Dominic Guard) who, […]

Feb, 25

Secret Beyond the Door ***½ (1947, Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave, Anne Revere) – Classic Movie Review 2177

Fritz Lang’s 1947 American film noir psychological thriller Secret Beyond the Door updates the Bluebeard story about a woman (Joan Bennett) who suspects her new architect husband (Michael Redgrave) plans to kill her. Esteemed director […]

Feb, 14

Cherry Falls **½ (2000, Brittany Murphy, Michael Biehn, Jay Mohr, Jesse Bradford, Gabriel Mann) – Classic Movie Review 2154

I know what the teens of Horror High did last summer. They held an orgy to get rid of their virginity so that they would survive a psychotic serial killer of virgins. This daft idea is […]

Feb, 03

A Simple Plan **** (1998, Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Bridget Fonda, Brent Briscoe) – Classic Movie Review 2152

Director Sam Raimi’s 1998 real-life thriller deservedly earned good reviews but alas didn’t do that well at the box office. Two brothers and a redneck buddy find a bag with a load of Mob money […]

Feb, 03

A Simple Twist of Fate *** (1994, Steve Martin, Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, Catherine O’Hara, Stephen Baldwin) – Classic Movie Review 2151

Director Gillies MacKinnon’s 1994 film of George Eliot’s classic novel Silas Marner comes with a screenplay by its star Steve Martin, who gives it a modern twist. Martin adapts and comes up with a semi-amusing […]

Feb, 03

Kafka *** (1991, Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Joel Grey) – Classic Movie Review 2138

Director Steven Soderbergh’s ambitious and intriguing 1991 follow-up to his sensationally successful 1989 worldwide indie hit Sex, Lies, and Videotape is a murky mystery thriller about author Franz Kafka (Jeremy Irons) getting caught up in a strange […]

Jan, 31

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