Derek Winnert

Captain America: The First Avenger **** (2011, Chris Evans, Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, Samuel L Jackson, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan, Dominic Cooper, Derek Luke, Stanley Tucci, Toby Jones) – Classic Movie Review 3601

Chris Evans stars and commands the screen as the Marvel Comics character Captain America in director Joe Johnston’s excellent 2011 American superhero film, the first Captain America movie and the fifth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It […]

Apr, 24 · in Uncategorized

Under the Tuscan Sun *** (2003, Diane Lane, Sandra Oh, Raoul Bova, Lindsay Duncan) – Classic Movie Review 3614

Audrey Wells writes, produces and directs the cute and charming 2003 American romantic comedy drama film Under the Tuscan Sun starring Diane Lane, who is perfect in the role of the author Frances Mayes. Audrey Wells […]

Apr, 24 · in Uncategorized

Under the Cherry Moon *** (1986, Prince, Jerome Benton, Kristin Scott Thomas) – Classic Movie Review 3613

An extremely lively, now classic score, including ‘Kiss’, ‘Mountains’ and ‘Girls and Boys’, partly rescues this somewhat tiresome Forties-style fantasy, released in black and white in 1986 and directed by the Eighties Prince of pop as a […]

Apr, 24

Under the Clock [The Clock] ***** (1945, Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason, Keenan Wynn) Classic Movie Review 3612

Based on a story by Paul and Pauline Gallico, director Vincente Minnelli’s exquisite 1945 wartime romance is an utterly lovely, totally beguiling movie. Judy Garland stars as Alice Maybery, a World War Two working girl, who meets, […]

Apr, 24

Strike Up the Band ***½ (1940, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Paul Whiteman and Orchestra, June Preisser, William Tracy, Larry Nunn) – Classic Movie Review 3611

Director Busby Berkeley’s pleasing 1940 musical is a pleasant re-run for the talented team from Babes in Arms (1939), keeping only George Gershwin’s title song from his 1928 Broadway show. In a supposedly new story that […]

Apr, 24

Babes on Broadway **** (1941, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Fay Bainter, Alexander Woolcott, Margaret O’Brien, Virginia Weidler, Ray Macdonald, Richard Quine, Donna Reed, Donald Meek) – Classic Movie Review 3609

Director Busby Berkeley’s infectiously exuberant 1942 follow-up to his 1939 Babes in Arms again teams Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney as hopeful talented young performers battling on Broadway, while putting on a show to send […]

Apr, 24

Babes in Arms **** (1939, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Charles Winninger) – Classic Movie Review 3610

Director Busby Berkeley’s 1939 musical is a triumph for Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney in the first and most famous of their ‘let’s put on a show’ movies, in which the kids of broke performers stage […]

Apr, 24

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