Derek Winnert

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Finding Your Feet ** (2017, Timothy Spall, Imelda Staunton, Celia Imrie, Joanna Lumley, David Hayman, John Sessions, Josie Lawrence) – Movie Review

Finding Your Feet is a guaranteed crowd pleaser with two bona fide national treasures in Imelda Staunton and Timothy Spall, plus a great performance by Celia Imrie. Director Richard Loncraine’s often funny and charming Finding Your […]

Feb, 25

47 Meters Down ** (2017, Mandy Moore, Claire Holt, Matthew Modine) – Movie Review

Mandy Moore and Claire Holt star as disillusioned American sisters vacationing in Mexico agree to join a couple of dodgy looking local blokes and a grizzled sea captain on an illegal cage dive to see […]

Aug, 01

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

Orphans of the Storm ***** (1921, Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut, Lucille La Verne) – Classic Movie Review 5218

Writer-producer-director D W Griffith’s 1921 big-budget ($1,000,000) historical romantic drama, based on the 1874 French play Les Deux Orphelines by Adolphe d’Ennery and Eugène Cormon, is the last of his series of really great silent epic films and […]

Mar, 29

Untamed Youth **½ (1957, Mamie Van Doren, Lori Nelson, Lurene Tuttle, John Russell, Don Burnett) – Classic Movie Review 4863

Director Howard W Koch’s 1957 rock ‘n’ roll, juvenile delinquency, youth drama exploitation movie, written by John C. Higgins and Stephen Longstreet, stars Mamie Van Doren and Lori Nelson as American starstruck sisters Penny and Jane Lowe. Alas, […]

Jan, 08

Pauline & Paulette **** (2001, Dora van der Groen, Ann Petersen, Rosemarie Bergmans ) – Classic Movie Review 4494

Co-writer/ director Lieven Debrauwer’s 2001 film is a heartrending, life-affirming emotional comedy drama focusing on two Dutch sisters in a family of four sisters. In the lead roles, Dora van der Groen (as the 66-year-old Pauline […]

Oct, 19

The Sisters **** (1938, Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Anita Louise, Jane Bryan, Ian Hunter, Donald Crisp, Beulah Bondi) – Classic Movie Review 4,376

Bette Davis is having trouble with Errol Flynn in the 1938 Warner Bros black and white drama film The Sisters. Davis is in her intense element, and they are an exciting team, though not much […]

Sep, 18

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