Derek Winnert

The BFG **½ (2016, Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Penelope Wilton) – Movie Review

The 12-year-old Cheshire girl Ruby Barnhill plays orphan Sophie who gets a big fat scare, and then an awfully big adventure when she meets the 24-foot Big Friendly Giant (a digitalised Mark Rylance). Though he has abducted her […]

Jul, 22 · in Reviews

A Private Function **** (1984, Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Liz Smith, Denholm Elliott) – Classic Movie Review 4066

Director Malcolm Mowbray’s delightful 1984 comedy film realises Alan Bennett’s highly amusing pig tale about a late-1940s Northern England doctor’s family who raise an illegal porker and fatten it up for a royal wedding banquet. […]

Jul, 22 · in Reviews

Love with the Proper Stranger *** (1964, Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen, Edie Adams) – Classic Movie Review 4065

Director Robert Mulligan’s 1964 romantic comedy drama pairs Natalie Wood with Steve McQueen in their glorious prime. Wood earned her third and final Oscar nomination, one of five nominations, including Best Original Story and Screenplay (Arnold […]

Jul, 22

Steel Magnolias *** (1989, Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, Julia Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 4064

Director Herbert Ross’s 1989 comedy drama about a close-knit circle of friends, based on the Broadway play by Robert Harling, showcases classy acting from a top-notch female all-star cast of Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley […]

Jul, 21

Something Wild **** (1986, Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, Ray Liotta, Margaret Colin, Tracey Walter) – Classic Movie Review 4063

Mixing crime, romance and comedy, director Jonathan Demme’s crazed 1986 thriller is perhaps the best of the cycle of mid-Eighties yuppie-in-peril movies. Jeff Daniels stars as businessman Charles Driggs, a very proper, middle-class man who decides […]

Jul, 21

The Princess Diaries 2: The Royal Engagement *** (2004, Anne Hathaway, Julie Andrews, Hector Elizondo, Callum Blue, Chris Pine) – Classic Movie Review 4062

Comedy and complications rule the day as most of the original cast and film-makers from the 2001 smash-hit The Princess Diaries return for director Garry Marshall’s sweet and amusing 2004 Disney romantic comedy sequel. The bright and […]

Jul, 21

The Princess Diaries *** (2001, Julie Andrews, Anne Hathaway, Hector Elizondo) – Classic Movie Review 4061

Director Garry Marshall’s hugely popular 2001 Disney Cinderella-style story comedy is based on the novel by Meg Cabot, in which a teenage girl is stunned to find that she is a princess —and then her grandmother […]

Jul, 21

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