Derek Winnert

Babes in Toyland [March of the Wooden Soldiers] **** (1934, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Florence Roberts, Henry Brandon, Charlotte Henry) – Classic Movie Review 5221

Directors Gus Meins and Charles Rogers’s delightful 1934 classic musical comedy Babes in Toyland [March of the Wooden Soldiers] provides ideal work for stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. They sparkle as Santa Claus’s assistants […]

Mar, 31 · in Reviews

Ghost in the Shell *** (2017, Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbæk, Takeshi Kitano, Juliette Binoche, Michael Pitt) – Movie Review

Ghost in the Shell is smart, smooth and slick, visually stylish and impressive, an interesting attempt at an arty blockbuster. But it is also a bit flat and one-note, as well as derivative, with many […]

Mar, 30 · in Reviews

Funny Games *** (2007, Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet, Devon Gearhart) – Classic Movie Review 5220

Michael Pitt plays another of his twisted and troubled characters as Paul in director Michael Haneke’s alienating shot-by-shot English-language remake of his Austrian original Funny Games (1997). Pitt and Brady Corbet play a couple of young, articulate, white-gloved psychos, […]

Mar, 30

Orphans **** (1987, Albert Finney, Matthew Modine, Kevin Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 5219

Albert Finney repeats his London stage performance as ageing Chicago gangster Harold, who is mixed up with two weird brothers Treat and Philip (Matthew Modine and Kevin Anderson), in director Alan J Pakula’s 1987 riveting […]

Mar, 30

Orphans of the Storm ***** (1921, Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut, Lucille La Verne) – Classic Movie Review 5218

Writer-producer-director D W Griffith’s 1921 big-budget ($1,000,000) historical romantic drama, based on the 1874 French play Les Deux Orphelines by Adolphe d’Ennery and Eugène Cormon, is the last of his series of really great silent epic films and […]

Mar, 29

The Girl in Black Stockings *** (1957, Lex Barker, Anne Bancroft, John Dehner, Ron Randell, Marie Windsor, Mamie Van Doren) – Classic Movie Review 5217

Director Howard W Koch’s entertaining 1957 thriller stars a fine line-up in Anne Bancroft, Lex Barker, John Dehner, Ron Randell, Marie Windsor, Mamie Van Doren and John Holland, and makes ideal late-night film noir viewing. […]

Mar, 29

Power Rangers *** (2017, Dacre Montgomery, Naomi Scott, RJ Cyler, Ludi Lin, Becky G, Elizabeth Banks, Bryan Cranston) – Movie Review

Director Dean Israelite turns in a surprisingly bright, lively and entertaining teenage action fantasy about group of high school student outcasts who meet in detention, band together and then stumble across an old alien ship, […]

Mar, 29

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