Derek Winnert

Enough * (2002, Jennifer Lopez, Billy Campbell, Tessa Allen, Juliette Lewis, Dan Futterman, Noah Wyle, Fred Ward) – Classic Movie Review 5885

Enough already! Jennifer Lopez follows Mariah Carey (Glitter) and Britney Spears (Crossroads) to the video dump bin with director Michael Apted’s tatty and inept 2002 revenge thriller. If, as the poster says, everyone has a […]

Aug, 09 · in Uncategorized

The Hidden Fortress [Kakushi-toride no san-akunin] ***** (1958, Toshirô Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki) Classic Movie Review 5884

Co-writer/ director Akira Kurosawa’s 1958 Japanese adventure is one of Kurosawa’s deservedly admired, classic Samurai movies, and a world cinema landmark. Toshirô Mifune stars as a fearlesss Samurai warrior, General Rokurota Makabe, who during the […]

Aug, 08 · in Uncategorized

Kiss Them for Me ** (1957, Cary Grant, Jayne Mansfield, Leif Erickson, Ray Walston, Larry Blyden, Suzy Parker, Werner Klemperer) – Classic Movie Review 5878

Director Stanley Donen’s 1957 CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color comedy Kiss Them for Me stars Cary Grant, Jayne Mansfield, Leif Erickson, Ray Walston, Larry Blyden, Suzy Parker, and Werner Klemperer. Cary Grant, Ray Walston and Larry […]

Aug, 08

I Am a Camera ** (1955, Julie Harris, Laurence Harvey, Shelley Winters) – Classic Movie Review 5877

Director Henry Cornelius’s 1955 British drama is a lacklustre, uninspired, disappointing film, especially considering the quality of Christopher Isherwood’s brilliant stories of an Englishman abroad in Weimar-era Thirties Berlin in his classic book Goodbye to […]

Aug, 08

Ensign Pulver ** (1964, Robert Walker Jr, Burl Ives, Walter Matthau) – Classic Movie Review 5883

Producer-director Joshua Logan’s 1964 comedy sequel stars Robert Walker Jr as Ensign Pulver, but alas he is not up to stepping into the Best Supporting Actor Oscar-winning Jack Lemmon’s shoes in the original role in […]

Aug, 08

Mister Roberts ***** (1955, Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon) – Classic Movie Review 5,882

Henry Fonda re-creates his Broadway role as the war-mongering officer Lieutenant Roberts aboard a World War Two cargo ship battling with tyrannical ship’s captain Captain Morton (James Cagney), in the 1955 comedy drama film Mr […]

Aug, 08

Missing ***** (1982, Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron) – Classic Movie Review 5879

Writer-director Constantin Costa-Gavras’s 1982 political thriller is tremendously well-handled, targeted for maximum emotional impact, with the director maintaining high dramatic tension and a dynamic pace throughout. Jack Lemmon gives a superb performance as Ed Horman, […]

Aug, 08

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