Derek Winnert

The Paleface **** (1922, Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 5115

This blissful classic 1922 twenty minutes of comedy is a highly amusing, fast-moving, inventive silent short from writer/ co-producer/ co-director/ star Buster Keaton. It is one of his best – in which he plays a […]

Mar, 06 · in Reviews

Bats * (1999, Lou Diamond Phillips, Dina Meyer, Bob Gunton) – Classic Movie Review 5114

Dina Meyer stars as zoologist Dr Sheila Casper, who is summoned to the Texas town of Gallup, where she teams up with the surprisingly kindly sheriff Emmett Kinsey (Lou Diamond Phillips) after a plague of […]

Mar, 06 · in Reviews

A Damsel in Distress ***½ (1937, Fred Astaire, Joan Fontaine, George Burns, Gracie Allen) – Classic Movie Review 5113

After so many films together, Ginger Rogers wanted a rest from acting, singing and dancing with Fred Astaire, so the RKO studio matched him together with a decorative and appealing Joan Fontaine. Alas that turns […]

Mar, 06

The Notorious Landlady ***½ (1962, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Fred Astaire, Lionel Jeffries) – Classic Movie Review 5,112

Loveable Jack Lemmon squeezes in a juicy comedy performance in Richard Quine’s amusing and stylish 1962 screwball comedy-cum-mystery The Notorious Landlady. Lemmon partners with Kim Novak, who designed her own gowns. Bill Gridley (Jack Lemmon) […]

Mar, 06

Batman of the Future: Return of the Joker **** (2000, voices of Will Friedle, Mark Hamill, Kevin Conroy) – Classic Movie Review 5111

Bruce Wayne (aka Batman) faces a final challenge when the maniacal super-villain The Joker seemingly returns from the dead to wreak a new wave of havoc on Gotham City. Director Curt Geda’s imaginative and first-rate […]

Mar, 06

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm **** (1993, voices of Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, Dana Delany, Hart Bochner, Abe Vigoda, Efrem Zimbalist Jr, Stacy Keach) – Classic Movie Review 5110

Director Bruce W Timm’s 1993 film is the top-rate first ever animated feature film version of Bob Kane’s DC Comics Caped Crusader characters. Striking animation, with stylised characters, shadowy and moody visuals (described by the […]

Mar, 06

The Batman *** (1943, Lewis Wilson, Douglas Croft, J Carrol Naish) – Classic Movie Review 5109

Director Lambert Hillyer’s wartime 1943 vintage 15-part film serial The Batman is exceptionally lively and enjoyable. It is notable as the first ever screen appearance of the Caped Crusader, giving Lewis Wilson the honour of […]

Mar, 06

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