Derek Winnert

The Picture of Dorian Gray **** (1945, George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury) – Classic Movie Review 1887

Hurd Hatfield stars in the 1945 film The Picture of Dorian Gray as the beautiful young man who unwittingly makes a pact with the Devil to keep his youthful beauty while his portrait in the […]

Nov, 25 · in Reviews

The Santa Clause 2 *** (2002, Tim Allen, Wendy Crewson, Eric Lloyd, Judge Reinhold) – Classic Movie Review 1886

Fancy another seasonal caper? Eight years on from the 1994 funny original The Santa Clause, the whole cast returns in 2002, and most especially Tim (Home Improvement) Allen is back as Scott Calvin, the divorcee […]

Nov, 25 · in Reviews

Annie *** (1999, Kathy Bates, Victor Garber, Alan Cumming, Alicia Morton) – Classic Movie Review 1885

This surprise 1999 remake of the 1982 movie by Rob Marshall, the director of Chicago, is very entertaining. Disney’s remake follows the successful 1998 Broadway revival of the show. It is well regarded as a more […]

Nov, 25

Carry On Doctor *** (1967, Frankie Howerd, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Williams, Sidney James, Barbara Windsor) – Classic Movie Review 1884

Frankie Howerd stars in Carry On Doctor in 1967 with almost all the regular Carry On team, the 15th in the series, the second to have a medical theme. They gather in style for this […]

Nov, 25

Carry On Abroad *** (1972, Sid James, Joan Sims, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor, Hattie Jacques, Bernard Bresslaw) – Classic Movie Review 1,883

Sid James and Joan Sims play Vic and Cora Flange, who join a motley crew of British holidaymakers on a four-day package tour to the Spanish resort of the island of Elsbels on the Costa […]

Nov, 25

The Long Goodbye **** (1973, Elliott Gould, Sterling Hayden, Nina Van Pallandt) – Classic Movie Review 1881

Robert Altman’s revisionist 1973 neo-noir film of Raymond Chandler’s 1953 novel is expectedly updated to the Seventies but unexpectedly stars a laconic Elliott Gould as the hardboiled but chivalrous and honourable private eye Philip Marlowe. […]

Nov, 24

Annie **** (1982, Aileen Quinn, Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters, Tim Curry, Ann Reinking) – Classic Movie Review 1,882

Little orphan Annie is rescued from a 1930s life of misery, poverty and the orphanage by benefactor Daddy Warbucks, in John Huston’s 1982 musical film of Charles Strouse’s Broadway hit show Annie. Little orphan Annie […]

Nov, 24

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