Derek Winnert

Anna Karenina * (1997, Sophie Marceau, Sean Bean, Alfred Molina, Mia Kirschner, James Fox, Fiona Shaw, Danny Huston, Phyllida Law) – Classic Movie Review 2916

Writer-director Bernard Rose’s appallingly misjudged 1997 British film version of Leo Tolstoy’s novel is totally scuppered by the miscasting of the central duo of Sophie Marceau and Sean Bean as the married 19th-century Russian aristocrat […]

Sep, 19 · in Reviews

Anna Karenina *** (1948, Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson, Kieron Moore, Sally Ann Howes, Martita Hunt) – Classic Movie Review 2915

Producer Alexander Korda and director Julien Duvivier’s 1948 British remake of the 1935 Greta Garbo Hollywood success based on Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel Anna Karenina is appealing enough but not quite another triumph. Unfortunately, the famous […]

Sep, 19 · in Reviews

Anna Karenina ***** (1935, Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Basil Rathbone, Freddie Bartholomew, Maureen O’Sullivan, May Robson, Reginald Owen, Reginald Denny) – Classic Movie Review 2914

Producer David O Selznick and director Clarence Brown work over Leo Tolstoy’s great 1877 novel as a 1935 big studio movie vehicle for the great Greta Garbo as Anna Karenina, the young wife of the […]

Sep, 19

Bill ** (2015, Mathew Baynton, Ben Willbond, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas) – Movie Review

Mathew Baynton stars as hopeless lute player Bill Shakespeare, who leaves his wife Anne Hathaway (Martha Howe-Douglas) and home to follow his dream to make it big in London as a writer. There are some laughs in […]

Sep, 18

A Walk in the Woods *** (2015, Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Emma Thompson, Mary Steenburgen, Nick Offerman, Kristen Schaal) – Movie Review

Robert Redford stars as celebrated travel writer Bill Bryson, who returns from the UK to America, where he decides to leave his wife (Emma Thompson) for a bit and connect with his homeland by hiking the Appalachian […]

Sep, 17

The D Train *** (2015, Jack Black, James Marsden, Kathryn Hahn, Jeffrey Tambor) – Movie Review

Jack Black plays Dan Landsman, the head of a Pittsburgh high school reunion committee, long married to Stacey (Kathryn Hahn), with a 14-year-old son (Russell Posner). Black decides to involve his boss (Jeffrey Tambor) in […]

Sep, 17

Everest **½ (2015, Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emily Watson, Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, Robin Wright) – Movie Review

Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur (The Deep, Two Guns) tells the old, old tale of man going up against mountain and coming up against a huge obstacle. But what is the story? His 1996 real-life scenario (in a […]

Sep, 17

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