Derek Winnert

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This Is Elvis *** (1981, Elvis Presley, David Scott, Paul Boensch III, Dana MacKay, Johnny Harra) – Classic Movie Review 10,909

The 1981 musical biographical documentary This Is Elvis is an intimate, lovingly handled cinema feature biopic of the King, some of it re-enacted as dramatisations but most of it archive footage of home movies, TV […]

Feb, 13

Micki + Maude *** (1984, Dudley Moore, Amy Irving, Ann Reinking, Richard Mulligan, George Gaynes, Wallace Shawn) – Classic Movie Review 10,676

Dudley Moore reunites with his 10 director Blake Edwards for this variable but mostly amiable 1984 romantic comedy Micki + Maude about a Lothario TV host, reporter Rob Salinger (Moore), caught between his pregnant wife […]

Dec, 17

Scandalous (1984, Robert Hays, Pamela Stephenson, John Gielgud, M Emmet Walsh, Jim Dale, Ron Travis) – Classic Movie Review 9882

‘Sir John Gielgud’s a Japanese spy… a down-and-out drunk… a wealthy aristocrat and a grandfather punk! Pamela Stephenson’s classy, she’s brassy… a French maid who mixes seduction with deduction.’ Director Rob Cohen’s 1984 Scandalous is […]

Jun, 09

Wayne’s World 2 *** (1993, Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Christopher Walken, Tia Carrere, Chris Farley) Classic Movie Review 9447

Director Stephen Surjik’s 1993 comedy Wayne’s World 2 is a less raucous, more amiable and more accomplished sequel to the 1992 Wayne’s World, though also much less popular at the box office. This time the […]

Feb, 29

Elvis: That’s the Way It Is **** (1970, Elvis Presley) – Classic Movie Review 9305

Here in Elvis: That’s the Way It Is (1970) is Elvis Presley in regal splendour rehearsing and performing in 1970 on his first concert tour since 1957. Director Denis Sanders looks at Presley backstage, polishing […]

Jan, 26

Elvis on Tour *** (1972, Elvis Presley) – Classic Movie Review 9304

Elvis Presley’s last film Elvis on Tour (1972) is ‘a close-up of the birth and life of an American phenomenon’, according to producer-directors Pierre Adidge and Robert Abel (who also made Mad Dogs and Englishmen). […]

Jan, 26

Judy ** (2019, Renée Zellweger, Jessie Buckley, Finn Wittrock, Rufus Sewell, Michael Gambon) – Movie Review

Throwing herself into the 2019 movie star biopic Judy to the max, Renée Zellweger gives an impressively showy, over-twitchy, mannered performance as Judy Garland, who comes in London in the winter of 1968 to perform […]

Oct, 04

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