Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle ** (2003, Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Demi Moore, John Cleese, Bernie Mac, Rodrigo Santoro) – Classic Movie Review 2913

The angelic babes are back in director McG’s 2003 sequel to his 2000 Charlie’s Angels, larking around again to our hearts content as Charlie’s girls in Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle. This frothy follow-up starts where […]

Sep, 16

Arabesque ***½ (1966, Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel, Kieron Moore) – Classic Movie Review 2,912

Arabesque (1966) Stanley Donen’s 1966 film Arabesque tries to repeat the success of his Charade (1963) with another romantic pair (Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren) thrown into another escapist Hitchcock-style thriller plot, with spies, intrigue, double […]

Sep, 15

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