Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Pennies from Heaven *** (1936, Bing Crosby, Edith Fellows, Madge Evans, Louis Armstrong, Donald Meek) – Classic Movie Review 6890

Bing Crosby stars as Larry Poole, a Thirties modern-day troubadour with ambitions to be a singing gondolier in Venice. But, after a short spell in jail on a trumped-up charge, he fulfills a promise to […]

Apr, 06 · in Uncategorized

Pennies from Heaven *** (1981, Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Walken, Jessica Harper) – Classic Movie Review 6889

Director Herbert Ross’s ambitious and intelligent 1981 American musical romantic drama film Pennies from Heaven is adapted for American audiences by Dennis Potter from his classic 1978 BBC TV drama miniseries, changing its setting from London and the Forest of Dean […]

Apr, 06 · in Uncategorized

Some Voices *** (2000, Daniel Craig, David Morrissey, Kelly Macdonald, Julie Graham, Peter McDonald) – Classic Movie Review 6888

Director Simon Cellan Jones’s interesting and worthwhile 2000 dark comedy drama Some Voices features an early full-on performance by Daniel Craig as Ray, a schizophrenic just discharged from psychiatric hospital, who causes havoc in his […]

Apr, 06

Ghost Stories ** (2017, Andy Nyman, Martin Freeman, Paul Whitehouse, Alex Lawther) – Movie Review

Andy Nyman stars as a parapsychology professor, the arch sceptic Professor Phillip Goodman, stumbles across a long-lost file containing details of three cases of supposedly inexplicable hauntings and must solve the puzzle of the three […]

Apr, 05

Subway **** (1985, Christopher Lambert, Isabelle Adjani, Richard Bohringer, Michel Galabru, Jean-Hugues Anglade) – Classic Movie Review 6.887

Co-writer/ director Luc Besson’s impossibly stylish 1985 Paris Métro French thriller film Subway is above all great fun. Christopher Lambert won a César Award as Best Actor. The one-time Tarzan goes punk as Christopher Lambert (from […]

Apr, 04

The Student Prince ** (1954, Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, John Ericson, John Williams, Edmund Gwenn, S Z Sakall, Louis Calhern) – Classic Movie Review 6886

Sigmund Romberg’s classic operetta The Student Prince is stodgily filmed by MGM in 1954, but nothing stops those vintage Romberg melodies. Mario Lanza’s beautiful tenor voice soars on the soundtrack, but he is nowhere to […]

Apr, 04

The Blob ** (1988, Shawnee Smith, Kevin Dillon, Donovan Leitch, Jeffrey De Munn, Candy Clark, Joe Seneca) – Classic Movie Review 6885

Director Chuck Russell’s 1988 remake of the 1958 horror picture The Blob is co-written by him and Frank Darabont, from a story by Irvine H Millgate, and stars Kevin Dillon as teen rebel Brian Flagg and Shawnee Smith […]

Apr, 04

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