Derek Winnert

Kiss Me, Stupid **** (1964, Dean Martin, Kim Novak, Ray Walston) – Classic Movie Review 3667

Director Billy Wilder’s sharp and funny 1964 comedy provides a grand star showcase for Dean Martin, who sends his image up gamely and delightfully as a hard-drinking, charming and lecherous Las Vegas crooner called Dino with […]

May, 06 · in Reviews

One, Two, Three **** (1961, James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin, Arlene Francis, Howard St John) – Classic Movie Review 3666

At 61, James Cagney is supremely energetic and wickedly funny in his last film before he retired for 20 years till his surprise comeback in Ragtime (1981). In Billy Wilder’s 1961 movie classic Cold War […]

May, 06 · in Reviews

The Oklahoma Kid *** (1939, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane) – Classic Movie Review 3665

Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1939 Western features players boldly cast but all too evidently off their usual underworld patch. James Cagney is the notorious ‘good’ outlaw, Jim Kincaid, aka The Oklahoma Kid, who seeks to avenge […]

May, 06

Ragtime **** (1981, James Cagney, Elizabeth McGovern, Howard E Rollins Jr, James Olson, Mary Steenburgen, Pat O’Brien, Brad Dourif) – Classic Movie Review 3664

Director Milos Forman’s 1981 drama tempted the 81-year-old James Cagney out of retirement for one final appearance in the cinema, though he made one more TV movie, Terrible Joe Moran, in 1984. He had not […]

May, 06

Superbad **** (2007, Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Emma Stone, Bill Hader, Seth Rogen) – Classic Movie Review 3663

Director Greg Mottola’s hilarious 2007 American teen bromance comedy stars Jonah Hill and Michael Cera as high school senior losers Seth and Evan, inseparable best friends who lament their pathetic sad virginity and terrible social standing during their last weeks of high […]

May, 06

Knight of Cups **** (2015, Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman, Brian Dennehy, Wes Bentley, Antonio Banderas, Freida Pinto) – Movie Review

As an old-style art movie, writer-director Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups is both a Hollywood documentary and satire and personal statement. It brings both Fellini and Antonioni to mind. This dream-like puzzle movie is either mesmerising or […]

May, 06

Bad Neighbours 2 ** (2016, Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Rose Byrne, Chloë Grace Moretz, Dave Franco, Ike Barinholtz, Carla Gallo, Selena Gomez, Lisa Kudrow) – Movie Review

The Bad Neighbours sequel has lots of raunchy, rude, raucous laughs, and that’s great if you are in the mood, though it has perhaps fewer big laughs than the first movie. Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne again […]

May, 05

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