Derek Winnert

The Addams Family **** (1991, Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Christina Ricci, Jimmy Workman) – Classic Movie Review 5686

Director Barry Sonnenfeld’s 1991 movie is a witty, often hilarious Gothic black comedy based on the Sixties TV show, in turn based on the macabre cartoons by Charles Addams, with ideal casting in Anjelica Huston, […]

Jun, 29 · in Reviews

Addams Family Values **** (1993, Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Joan Cusack, Christina Ricci, Jimmy Workman, Carol Kane) – Classic Movie Review 5685

Happily Barry Sonnenfeld’s 1993 comedy Addams Family Values is a slightly sharper sequel to an already successful formula, with Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia and Christopher Lloyd oozing style and charisma in welcome reprises of their […]

Jun, 29 · in Reviews

After the Storm [Umi yori mo mada fukaku] **** (2016, Hiroshi Abe, Yôko Maki, Satomi Kobayashi) – Movie Review

Writer-director Hirokazu Koreeda’s sweet and tender Japanese slice-of-life family relationships drama is a quiet, subtle little gem, slow burning, smouldering, but brightly burning. Gentle, kind, wise and forgiving, this effortlessly achieved humanist film gains its power […]

Jun, 29

The Children’s Hour *** (1961, Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner, Miriam Hopkins, Fay Bainter, Karen Balkin) – Classic Movie Review 5683

Director William Wyler’s 1961 drama is a grittier re-filming of Lillian Hellman’s infamous play The Children’s Hour, first made also by Wyler in 1936 as These Three. Hellman is credited for the adaptation, but this time John […]

Jun, 28

These Three **** (1936, Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea) – Classic Movie Review 5684

Because of the strict movie censorship rules of the Thirties, Lillian Hellman’s lesbian Broadway play The Children’s Hour couldn’t be filmed properly until 1962, when it was filmed under its proper title of The Children’s […]

Jun, 28

How to Steal a Million *** (1966, Audrey Hepburn, Peter O’Toole, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith, Charles Boyer) – Classic Movie Review 5,682  

Peter O’Toole and Audrey Hepburn make a lovely couple and sail effortlessly though the chic and stylish 1966 American heist comedy caper film How to Steal a Million.  ‘Meet a Couple of Smart Operators Who Give a […]

Jun, 28

Two for the Road **** (1967, Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney, Eleanor Bron) – Classic Movie Review 5681

‘If you want to be a duchess, be a duchess. If you want to make love, hat’s off.’ – Mark Wallace (Albert Finney). Producer-director Stanley Donen’s seemingly lightweight 1967 romantic comedy Two for the Road […]

Jun, 28

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