Derek Winnert

Alexander’s Ragtime Band **** (1938, Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Ethel Merman, Jack Haley, John Carradine) – Classic Movie Review 2617

Director Henry King’s 1938 musical is a grand old-time show, with an ancient but serviceable plot about two songwriters (Tyrone Power and Don Ameche) battling for the love of an upcoming singing attraction (Alice Faye). […]

Jun, 19 · in Reviews

13 Going on 30 ** (2004, Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, Judy Greer, Kathy Baker) – Classic Movie Review 2616

Director Gary Winick’s 2004 movie stars the appealing young Jennifer Garner, who is tough and feisty in her TV show Alias, but here she hasn’t really got the right stuff for girly romcom. In Josh […]

Jun, 19 · in Reviews

Encino Man [California Man] **** (1992, Sean Astin, Brendan Fraser, Pauly Shore) – Classic Movie Review 2615

Director Les Mayfield’s 1992 wild and wacky teen comedy is incredibly juvenile but unexpectedly funny and engaging, coming in the wake and style of Bill and Ted and Wayne’s World. It’s now regarded as a classic […]

Jun, 18

Call Me Madam **** (1953, Ethel Merman, George Sanders, Donald O’Connor, Vera-Ellen, Billy De Wolfe, Walter Slezak) – Classic Movie Review 2614

The boisterous Ethel Merman is on top form as the hostess with the mostest  – and so are the whole cast – for Walter Lang’s very bright, lively and nimble 1953 film version of the ultimate […]

Jun, 18

Suddenly, Last Summer **** (1959, Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift) -Classic Movie Review 2613

‘Tennessee Williams shocks you again as he transports you to a STRANGE, NEW BOLD WORLD!’ Tennessee Williams’s famous one-act play gets a glossy, starry stage-to-screen transfer in director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s 1959 movie. The heat […]

Jun, 18

Accidental Love ** (2015, Jessica Biel, Jake Gyllenhaal, James Marsden, Catherine Keener) – Movie Review

The story behind Accidental Love is perhaps more interesting than the movie itself. American Hustle director David O Russell filmed this screwball political satire back in 2008, but it hit finance problems and he and […]

Jun, 18

How to Marry a Millionaire **** (1953, Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall, William Powell) – Classic Movie Review 2612

Marilyn Monroe (as Pola Debevoise), Betty Grable (as Loco Dempsey) and Lauren Bacall (as Schatze Page) star as the shallow but sweet gold-diggers of 1953 in director Jean Negulesco’s entertaining smash comedy. The trio of […]

Jun, 17

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