Derek Winnert

Hellcats of the Navy ** (1957, Ronald Reagan, Nancy Davis, Arthur Franz, Robert Arthur, Harry Lauter) – Classic Movie Review 3455

Director Nathan Juran’s 1957 war movie is a must-see for its one-off screen appearance together of married political couple Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis (Reagan), in which he plays a submarine commander called Casey Abbott who […]

Mar, 06 · in Reviews

Kung Fu Panda ***** (2008, voices of Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Ian McShane, Lucy Liu, Seth Rogen, David Cross) – Classic Movie Review 3454

This bundle of animated furry fun is a cuddly charmer. In ancient China, Po is one lazy, tubby panda. He toils in his father’s humble noodle restaurant but dreams of being a kung fu fighting […]

Mar, 06 · in Reviews

Kung Fu Panda 3 *** (2016, voices of Jack Black, Bryan Cranston, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, Kate Hudson) – Movie Review

DreamWorks Animation’s Part 3 is amiable and likeable, very well designed and extremely starry vocally. Meandering around in the middle lane, it is genial and pleasant without being very funny or surprising, or really establishing […]

Mar, 06

The Phantom of the Opera **** (2004, Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Minnie Driver) – Classic Movie Review 3453

Gerard Butler makes a success of his surprise casting as the Phantom in Joel Schumacher’s opulent 2004 filming of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical version of the 1911 novel Le Fantöme de l’Opéra by Gaston Leroux. […]

Mar, 06

Hitchcock/Truffaut **** (2015, Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Richard Linklater) – Movie Review

Alfred Hitchcock: ‘Silent pictures are the pure motion picture form. There’s no need to abandon the technique of the pure motion picture, the way it was abandoned when sound came in.’ In director Kent Jones’s […]

Mar, 05

Here Comes Mr Jordan ***** (1941, Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains, Evelyn Keyes, Rita Johnson) – Classic Movie Review 3452

Heavenly aide Edward Everett Horton mistakenly despatches a boxer called Joe Pendleton (Robert Montgomery) up to the celestial resting place 50 years too early on the very eve of becoming world boxing champ. Although he’s […]

Mar, 05

Heaven Can Wait ***½ (1978, Warren Beatty, Dyan Cannon, Charles Grodin, James Mason, Julie Christie, Jack Warden, Vincent Gardenia, Buck Henry) – Classic Movie Review 3451

Co-writer/ co-producer/ co-director/ star Warren Beatty’s 1978 comedy is no relation to the 1943 classic Ernst Lubitsch movie of the same name, Heaven Can Wait, but instead a highly amusing and popular remake of Here Comes Mr […]

Mar, 05

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