Derek Winnert

Peter Pan ***** (1953, Walt Disney) – Classic Movie Review 1,416

Ah, yes, ‘Never Smile at a Crocodile’. The 1953 classic animated feature film Peter Pan is one of the Walt Disney studio’s very best. Supervising directors Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi and Wilfred Jackson’s 1953 classic […]

Jul, 12

Alice in Wonderland **** (1951, Walt Disney) – Classic Movie Review 1413

Supervised by directors Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske and Wilfred Jackson, Walt Disney’s attractively designed Americanised 1951 animated feature film of Lewis Carroll’s books Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass is charming […]

Jul, 11

Bambi **** (1942, Walt Disney) – Classic Movie Review 1415

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs supervising director David Hand’s much-loved Walt Disney 1942 animated feature film is dazzlingly well animated in lovely Technicolor images by a team of sequence directors Hand is supervising. In […]

Jul, 11

Planet of the Apes *** (2001, Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter) – Classic Movie Review 1414

In 2001, everyone was going bananas for director Tim Burton’s ape-tising remake of the 1967 movie. Mark Wahlberg takes on Charlton Heston’s old role as US Air Force astronaut Captain Leo Davidson who, chasing a chimp […]

Jul, 11

Transformers: Age of Extinction *** (2014, Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor, T J Miller, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer) – Movie Review

Transformers 4 is an awesome but soul-less juggernaut of a stonking, barn-storming action thriller, cruelly dumping the nice original cast after 2014’s Transformers: Age of Extinction, and instead randomly employing today’s favourite action star Mark Wahlberg as widowed […]

Jul, 10

How to Train Your Dragon 2 *** (2014, voices of Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett) – Movie Review

Kids and their attendant grown-ups will be satisfied with writer-director Dean DeBlois’s robust, pleasant and amusing yet unnecessary sequel to the DreamWorks 2010 animation hit, based on Cressida Cowell‘s book series. It’s altogether totally fine […]

Jul, 10

Boyhood ***** (2014, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane) – Movie Review

Writer-director Richard Linklater’s Boyhood is a five-star marvel, probably the best film I’ve seen all year, or at least the one I liked, admired, enjoyed and relished most. It’s the perfect antidote to all the […]

Jul, 10

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