Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers ***** (1954, Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Russ Tamblyn, Jeff Richards, Tommy Rall, Matt Mattox, Marc Platt, Jacques d’Ambroise, Howard Petrie, Julie Newmar) – Classic Movie Review 4533

Director Stanley Donen’s wonderfully exuberant and high-spirited 1954 MGM dance musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers stars Jane Powell and Howard Keel, and tells the story about the seven Pontipee brothers on a backwoods farm […]

Oct, 25 · in Reviews

Seven Chances **** (1925, Buster Keaton, Ruth Dwyer, T Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards) – Classic Movie Review 4532

Producer/ director/ star Buster Keaton’s clever and hilarious, classic silent comedy showcases a stressed-out Buster as nearly bankrupt financial broker Jimmie Shannon, who has to find himself a spouse within a few hours to receive […]

Oct, 25 · in Reviews

Doctor Strange ***½ (2016, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rachel McAdams, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tilda Swinton, Mads Mikkelsen, Benedict Wong) – Movie Review

There are only half a dozen main characters in Doctor Strange, which means we get to see an awful lot of them. This means rather too much of Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange, which he plays exactly like […]

Oct, 25

The Bachelor ** (1999, Chris O’Donnell, Renée Zellweger, Artie Lange, Marley Shelton, Brooke Shields, Mariah Carey, Peter Ustinov, Hal Holbrook, James Cromwell, Edward Asner) – Classic Movie Review 4531

Chris O’Donnell takes the title role, as Jimmie Shannon, a commitment-phobic man who has to marry by the time he is 30 to claim his $100 million inheritance. Drably unfunny and listlessly acted, the story only […]

Oct, 24

Suburban Mayhem *** (2006, Emily Barclay, Michael Dorman, Steve Bastoni, Laurence Breuls, Anthony Hayes, Mia Wasikowska) – Classic Movie Review 4530

The 22-year-old Emily Barclay, award-winner as most promising newcomer for In My Father’s Den in 2005, edges nearer stardom for her stirring, unnerving performance in this striking, sexy little 2006 Aussie black comedy as a […]

Oct, 24

The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising *** (2007, Alexander Ludwig, Ian McShane, Christopher Eccleston, Frances Conroy, James Cosmo, Jim Piddock, Wendy Crewson) – Classic Movie Review 4529

Alexander Ludwig plays nice 14-year-old American kid called Will Stanton, who comes to rural England and learns he is ‘special’. He is the last of a group of immortal warriors dedicated to fighting forces of […]

Oct, 24

Inkheart *** (2008, Brendan Fraser, Andy Serkis, Eliza Bennett, Sienna Guillory, Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren, Stephen Graham, Jamie Foreman) – Classic Movie Review 4528

Director Iain Softley’s smooth and colourful 2008 family fantasy adventure takes the idea that ‘every story ever written is just waiting to become real.’ And the cinema just the place for that! Eliza Bennett plays […]

Oct, 24

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