Derek Winnert

There’s No Business Like Show Business **** (1954, Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, Donald O’Connor, Dan Dailey, Johnnie Ray, Mitzi Gaynor) – Classic Movie Review 2,611

Director Walter Lang’s big, bold and brassy 1954 Twentieth Century-Fox musical hit There’s No Business Like Show Business focuses on the lives of an American show business family. It’s put across with storming performances by […]

Jun, 17 · in Reviews

Lady for a Day **** (1933, Warren William, May Robson, Guy Kibbee, Jean Parker, Glenda Farrell) – Classic Movie Review 2610

Co-writer/producer/director Frank Capra’s 1933 classic is a timeless tearjerker about Apple Annie, a poor Times Square apple-saleswoman (May Robson) who is transformed into a lady for a day by racketeer Dave the Dude (Warren William) […]

Jun, 17 · in Reviews

Suicide Kings **** (1997, Christopher Walken, Denis Leary, Sean Patrick Flanery) – Classic Movie Review 2609

Christopher Walken stars as New York crime boss Charles Bennett, who is kidnapped from his favourite restaurant by four rich boys (Sean Patrick Flanery, Jay Mohr, Jeremy Sisto, Henry Thomas) and awakes to find himself […]

Jun, 17

The Burning [Ardor] *** (2014, Gael García Bernal, Alice Braga, Chico Díaz) – Movie Review

Gael García Bernal stars as Kai, a mysterious tattooed stranger who emerges from the Argentinian rainforest to rescue farm girl Vania (Alice Braga), the kidnapped daughter of a poor farmer, after mercenaries murder her father […]

Jun, 17

The Longest Ride*** (2015, Scott Eastwood, Britt Robertson, Alan Alda, Jack Huston, Oona Chaplin) – Movie Review

  ‘Love requires sacrifice, always.’ – Ira Levinson. Based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks, this plush romantic drama for twentysomething women is escapist fluff but has its charms. Certainly it is lovingly crafted by […]

Jun, 16

Entourage *** (2015, Kevin Connolly, Adrian Grenier, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara, Jeremy Piven) – Movie Review

  The eight-season TV series Entourage (2004–2011) is resurrected as a movie, Spooks-style, courtesy its creator Doug Ellin as writer-director and Mark Wahlberg as producer. Adrian Grenier returns as film star Vince Chase, who navigates the vapid […]

Jun, 16

Duel **** (1971, Dennis Weaver) – Classic Movie Review 2608

A masterpiece of fear and tension, Steven Spielberg’s third TV film is so powerful that it won a cinema release in 1971 and gave him his break in the movies. It aired as a hit […]

Jun, 15

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