Derek Winnert

Batman and Robin *** (1949, Robert Lowery, Johnny Duncan, Jane Adams) – Classic Movie Review 5108

Director Spencer Gordon Bennet’s 1949 vintage 15-part serial is lively, well cast, well acted, and entertaining for all its four hours and 23 minutes. Robert Lowery takes over from Lewis Wilson as Batman and Johnny […]

Mar, 06 · in Reviews

Batman: The Movie *** (1966, Adam West, Burt Ward, Cesar Romero, Frank Gorshin, Burgess Meredith, Lee Meriwether, Alan Napier) – Classic Movie Review 5107

Director Leslie Martinson’s campy, spoofy, amusing and still very fondly remembered 1966 cinema movie spin-off from the Sixties TV show Batman (1966-68) delivers the goods to nostalgia buffs in a movie that is real good […]

Mar, 06 · in Reviews

Sherlock Jr ***** (1924, Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton) – Classic Movie Review 5106

Director and star Buster Keaton’s 1924 film is an unassailable silent comedy classic from one of the greatest comedians of any era. The Great Stone Face plays a projectionist who dreams of detective success to […]

Mar, 05

Wild Reeds [Les Roseaux Sauvages] **** (1994, Gaël Morel, Élodie Bouchez, Stéphane Rideau, Frédéric Gorny) – Classic Movie Review 5105

Director André Techiné’s beautifully handled, poignant and delicate semi-autobiographical 1994 film tells the complex and emotionally satisfying story about teens coming of age in Sixties France at the time of the Algerian War. The film stars Frédéric Gorny, […]

Mar, 05

Certain Women **** (2016, Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Lily Gladstone, Jared Harris, James Le Gros, Rene Auberjonois) – Movie Review

Writer-director Kelly Reichardt hauntingly brings some of Maile Meloy’s stories to the screen in three inter-connected yarns in which the lives of four women intersect in the small-town America on Montana. It stars Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern and Lily […]

Mar, 05

Viceroy’s House ** (2017, Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Michael Gambon, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi, Om Puri, Lily Travers, Simon Callow, Simon Williams) – Movie Review

Hugh Bonneville stars as Lord Louis Mountbatten, who is appointed final Viceroy of India, with the job of overseeing the transition of British India to independence in 1947. Director Gurinder Chadha means well but has bitten off […]

Mar, 05

The Phantom of the Opera *** (1990, Charles Dance, Burt Lancaster, Teri Polo, Ian Richardson, Andréa Ferréol) – Classic Movie Review 5104

As the Phantom of the Opera, Charles Dance is a splendidly chilling charmer, in director Tony Richardson’s rich, lavish and enjoyable 1990 film TV mini-series version of the much-filmed 1911 story by Gaston Leroux, Le […]

Mar, 05

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