Derek Winnert

Son of Saul [Saul fia] ***** (2015, Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn) – Movie Review

Hungary-born László Nemes’s shatteringly horrific Auschwitz drama Son of Saul [Saul fia] won the 2016 Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, as well as the FIPRESCI Prize and Grand Jury Prize at the […]

Apr, 28 · in Uncategorized

Broadway Melody of 1940 **** (1940, Fred Astaire, George Murphy, Eleanor Powell, Frank Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 3627

Director Norman Taurog’s 1940 musical brings the series of four Broadway Melody movies to an end in great style with Fred Astaire and George Murphy kicking up a storm as Johnny Brett and King Shaw, […]

Apr, 27 · in Uncategorized

Broadway Melody of 1938 **** (1937, Robert Taylor, Sophie Tucker, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy, Judy Garland, Buddy Ebsen, Sid Silvers) – Classic Movie Review 3626

Director Roy Del Ruth’s toe-tapping 1937 musical brings Robert Taylor back as a young Broadway producer-impresario – it is exactly the same part but has different character name, Steve Raleigh – who again is urgently seeking […]

Apr, 27

Broadway Melody of 1936 **** (1935, Jack Benny, Eleanor Powell, Robert Taylor, June Knight, Sid Silvers, Buddy Ebsen, Vilma Ebsen, Una Merkel, Frances Langford) – Classic Movie Review 3625

It took MGM quite a while to come up with a sequel to their 1929 Best Picture Oscar-winning  box-office smash, The Broadway Melody, but here finally, six years later in 1935, it is. However, they […]

Apr, 27

The Broadway Melody **** (1929, Bessie Love, Anita Page, Charles King, Kenneth Thomson, Eddie Kane) – Classic Movie Review 3624

ALL TALKING! ALL SINGING! ALL DANCING! Director Harry Beaumont’s 1929 movie is the first sound film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture and the first musical to win Best Picture Oscar. It is also the first MGM musical […]

Apr, 27

Anchors Aweigh **** (1945, Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, Dean Stockwell, José Iturbi, Pamela Britton) – Classic Movie Review 3623

Gene Kelly returns to MGM as a favoured star and with a contract to choreograph too after becoming a hot star when they loaned him out to Columbia Pictures to appear in Cover Girl (1944) […]

Apr, 27

Thoroughbreds Don’t Cry *** (1937, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Sophie Tucker, Frankie Darro, C Aubrey Smith) – Movie Review 3618

MGM’s fine young thoroughbreds Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland appear together for the first time in director Alfred E Green’s slight but pleasant 1937 tale with music, as horse-racing Timmie Donovan (Mickey) mixes with crooks and Judy […]

Apr, 26

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