Derek Winnert

Simon and Laura *** (1955, Peter Finch, Kay Kendall, Ian Carmichael, Muriel Pavlow, Maurice Denham, Thora Hird) – Classic Movie Review 2710

Director Muriel Box’s bubbly  and spirited 1955 British comedy provides a cute vehicle for lovely stars Kay Kendall and Peter Finch as married couple Simon and Laura Foster. It is a Rank Organisation film produced […]

Jul, 16 · in Reviews

Wild in the Country *** (1961, Elvis Presley, Tuesday Weld, Hope Lange, Millie Perkins, John Ireland, Gary Lockwood) – Classic Movie Review 2713

Director Philip Dunne’s 1961 film drama Wild in the Country marks the moment when playwright Clifford Odets takes on Elvis Presley as interpreter of his literate screenplay based on the 1958 novel The Lost Country […]

Jul, 16 · in Reviews

The Mortal Storm ***** (1940, Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Robert Young, Robert Stack) – Classic Movie Review 2701

Director Frank Borzage’s strong, sensitive and significant 1940 drama finds the MGM studio in full patriotic mode, doing its bit for the free world by trying to stir up the wartime American public against the […]

Jul, 16

Self/less *** (2015, Ryan Reynolds, Natalie Martinez, Matthew Goode, Ben Kingsley, Victor Garber) – Movie Review

Ben Kingsley stars (all too briefly) as elderly Damian, a cancer-stricken dying American real estate mogul who learns of a process called ‘shedding’. He transfers his consciousness into a healthy body of a decades younger […]

Jul, 15

True Story ***½ (2015, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Felicity Jones) – Movie Review

There’s lots of fascinating interest in this creepy and provocative True Story about New York Times reporter Michael Finkel, who gets out of the frying pan and into the fire after he is disgraced and […]

Jul, 15

The Gallows * (2015, Reese Mishler, Pfeifer Brown, Ryan Shoos, Cassidy Gifford) – Movie Review

Shot in Fresno, California, this horror movie about a cursed high school theatre production is enterprisingly made on a small budget. Playing like an eager-to-scare amateur student film, it was independently funded and produced before being […]

Jul, 15

It Happened at the World’s Fair *** (1963, Elvis Presley, Joan O’Brien, Gary Lockwood, Vicky Tiu, Yvonne Craig, Kurt Russell) – Classic Movie Review 2,712

The smooth 1963 musical comedy film It Happened at the World’s Fair stars Elvis Presley and Gary Lockwood as crop-duster plane fliers, and Joan O’Brien as Elvis’s girlfriend, with Kurt Russell in his film debut. […]

Jul, 15

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