Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

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

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

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