Derek Winnert

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Still Alice **** (2014, Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth) – Movie Review

Still Alice is a devastating heart-tugger and guaranteed weepie. Julianne Moore is brilliant in a demanding and challenging role as Dr Alice Howland, a 50-year-old renowned linguistics professor struck down with rare congenital, early-onset Alzheimer’s. […]

Dec, 10 · in Reviews

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies *** (2014, Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage) – Movie Review

Martin Freeman and Ian McKellen return as Bilbo and Gandalf for one last time in Peter Jackson’s final Middle-Earth action movie that turns the two sweet, thoughtful characters into lusty action heroes and the final episode of […]

Dec, 10 · in Reviews

The Young Girls of Rochefort [Les demoiselles de Rochefort] ***** (1967, Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac, Gene Kelly, George Chakiris, Danielle Darrieux) – Classic Movie Review 1946

French movie director Jacques Demy’s 1967 musical follow-up to his 1964 Cannes Palme d’or-winning hit The Umbrellas of Cherbourg [Les parapluies de Cherbourg] is another devastatingly charming, light-hearted, carefree operetta. It is overloaded with energy, dynamism and […]

Dec, 10

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg [Les parapluies de Cherbourg] ***** (1964, Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon) – Classic Movie Review 1945

Told in four acts, writer-director Jacques Demy’s irresistible, bitter-sweet 1964 classic French musical romance has originality, freshness, joie de vivre and charm in bucketfuls. Though the actors are dubbed, every word is sung in Demy’s seemingly effortless […]

Dec, 10

To Be or Not To Be **** (1983, Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 1944

Director Alan Johnson’s surprisingly entertaining and successful 1983 remake of the classic 1942 Jack Benny-Carole Lombard World War Two wartime comedy drama stars Mel Brooks and his wife Anne Bancroft. It is the first time […]

Dec, 10

To Be or Not To Be ***** (1942, Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack) – Classic Movie Review 1,943

Set during the Nazi occupation of Poland, Ernst Lubitsch’s controversial 1942 wartime comedy drama film To Be or Not To Be is incredibly daring, funny and poignant. Jack Benny and Carole Lombard (in her last […]

Dec, 10

1941 **** (1979, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Treat Williams, Christopher Lee, Ned Beatty, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Tim Matheson, Toshiro Mifune, Warren Oates, Robert Stack) – Classic Movie Review 1,941

Steven Spielberg’s 1979 epic comedy film 1941 about a Japanese submarine arriving off Los Angeles, causing panic in the wake of Pearl Harbor, was a huge, unexpected flop. John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Treat Williams and […]

Dec, 10

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