Derek Winnert

Grand Hotel ***** (1932, Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore) – Classic Movie Review 1984

Going against conventional Hollywood wisdom, MGM’s trail-blazing multi-story film Grand Hotel (1932) was one of the first all-star vehicles. It was the Oscar winner for Best Picture and became one of the highest grossing pictures.  […]

Dec, 20 · in Reviews

Hope Floats ** (1998, Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick Jr, Gena Rowlands) – Classic Movie Review 1983

Sandra Bullock is likeable and appealing as housewife Birdee Calvert, who, after hearing on TV that her hubby is having an affair with her best friend Connie (Rosanna Arquette), moves back with her daughter Bernice […]

Dec, 20 · in Reviews

Hope Springs ** (2003, Colin Firth, Heather Graham, Minnie Driver, Mary Steenburgen) – Classic Movie Review 1982

Director Mark Herman’s funny-in-places 2003 comedy stars Colin Firth as sad, lovelorn British artist Colin Ware who, after being dumped by his fiancée in the UK, goes to start over in the USA where he holes up in […]

Dec, 20

Queen Kelly **** (1929, Gloria Swanson, Walter Byron, Seena Owen) – Classic Movie Review 1981

Best known nowadays, if at all, for the excerpt of it seen in her 1950 comeback movie triumph Sunset Blvd., Queen Kelly (1929) is Gloria Swanson’s famous silent film. Alas, it ended up in an […]

Dec, 20

Queen Christina ***** (1933, Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith, Lewis Stone) – Classic Movie Review 1980

  Rouben Mamoulian’s lush and glossily romantic 1933 film Queen Christina is a jewel in the crown of Greta Garbo, then reigning Queen of Hollywood.  ‘I’m tired of being a symbol, Chancellor. I long to […]

Dec, 20

Purely Belter ** (2000, Chris Beattie, Greg McLane, Tim Healy, Roy Hudd, Kevin Whately, Charlie Hardwick) – Classic Movie Review 1979

From writer- director Mark Herman, the maker of Brassed Off and Little Voice, comes this pleasant and watchable 2000 British footie movie that stumbles just like previous attempts such as Escape to Victory, Best and […]

Dec, 20

Into the Woods ***** (2014, Anna Kendrick, Meryl Streep, Chris Pine, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Johnny Depp) – Movie Review

Seizing her chance to overact for America, Meryl Streep triumphs as The Wicked Witch in director Rob Marshall’s enormously entertaining, glorious looking, highly imaginative and quite magical movie version of the legendary Stephen Sondheim stage show. […]

Dec, 19

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