Derek Winnert

Kagemusha ***** (1980, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Jinpachi Nezu) – Classic Movie Review 6426

The great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa is on commanding form in this thrilling 1980 film from his older age (he was 70) with a story about a 16th-century nobleman who saves the life of a […]

Dec, 18 · in Reviews

The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause * (2006, Tim Allen, Martin Short, Elizabeth Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 6425

The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause follows The Santa Clause (1994) and The Santa Clause 2 (2002) in 2006, completing the trilogy. Tim Allen returns as Scott Calvin, aka Santa, who has to keep his new family […]

Dec, 18 · in Reviews

Rhapsody in August [Hachi-gatsu no rapusodî] **** (1991, Sachiko Murasé, Hisashi Igawa, Richard Gere) – Classic Movie Review 6424

Writer-director Akira Kurosawa’s small-scale 1991 Japanese film made in his old age at 81 tackles all the big subjects – the bomb, war guilt, forgiveness, life, death, the future and the whole darned thing. Kurosawa’s screenplay […]

Dec, 17

Free Willy 3: The Rescue ** (1997, Jason James Richter, August Schellenberg, Annie Corley, Vincent Berry, Patrick Kilpatrick) – Classic Movie Review 6423

Jason James Richter, the appealing one-boy save-the-whale campaigner from Free Willy (1993), is back for his third and final film as killer whale Willy’s pal Jesse, now aged 16, to try to save the orca whale […]

Dec, 17

Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home *** (1995, Jason James Richter, Michael Madsen, Jayne Atkinson, M Emmet Walsh, August Schellenberg) – Classic Movie Review 6422

Jason James Richter returns as Jesse, the appealing one-boy save-the-whale campaigner from Free Willy (1993), who this time sets off on a sailing trip with his argumentative half brother (Jon Tenny) and his foster parents […]

Dec, 17

Free Willy ** (1993, Jason James Richter, Jayne Atkinson, Michael Madsen, Michael Ironside, Lori Petty, August Schellenberg) – Classic Movie Review 6421

Director Simon Wincer’s hugely popular 1993 children’s film is simple, popular sentimental family adventure fare starring Jason James Richter as an abandoned 12-year old street kid called Jesse who befriends a three-ton orca killer whale trapped […]

Dec, 17

A Free Soul *** (1931, Lionel Barrymore, Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Clark Gable) – Classic Movie Review 6420

Director Clarence Brown’s creaky but enjoyable 1931 courtroom crime romantic drama is most memorable for its cast – Lionel Barrymore, Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard and Clark Gable – and for Barrymore taking the Best Actor Oscar. […]

Dec, 17

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