Derek Winnert

Get On Up *** (2014, Chadwick Boseman, Nelsan Ellis, Dan Aykroyd) – Movie Revie

After directing The Help (2011), Tate Taylor helms this conscientious and smoothly made, if uninspired, movie about James Brown. It painstakingly chronicles the Godfather of Soul‘s rise from poverty and parental abuse and abandonment in a turbulent […]

Nov, 18 · in Reviews

The Dam Busters **** (1955, Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans) – Classic Movie Review 1857

Director Michael Anderson’s 1954 true life wartime adventure movie brings the once famous story of Barnes Wallis’s bouncing bombs that blasted open Germany’s crucial Ruhr dams in 1943 to vivid life. At the centre and heart […]

Nov, 18 · in Reviews

Ninotchka ***** (1939, Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Bela Lugosi) – Classic Movie Review 1856

  Greta Garbo (1905-1990) was huge news in the Thirties – the most famous female movie star and the Queen of Hollywood, the Angelina Jolie of her day. As a riposte to the ‘Garbo Talks!’ […]

Nov, 18

The Big Easy **** (1986, Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin, Ned Beatty) – Classic Movie Review 1855

Director Jim McBride’s hot and fresh 1986 erotic crime thriller stars Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin in their prime and on their peak form. They show they have the sexual chemistry to make screenwriter Daniel […]

Nov, 18

The Right Stuff ***** (1983, Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid) – Classic Movie Review 1852

Writer-director Philip Kaufman’s exhilarating, four Oscar-winning, three-hour-plus 1983 space epic is a movie with all the right stuff itself. There are two storylines. One is the début of America’s astronauts and the original Mercury 7 […]

Nov, 18

El Cid **** (1961, Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone) – Classic Movie Review 1851

Director Anthony Mann’s 1961 historical epic for producer Samuel Bronston stars Charlton Heston in one of his most famous heroic roles as the 11th-century Spanish warrior Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar – El Cid. Sophia Loren […]

Nov, 17

Up the Creek *** (1958, David Tomlinson, Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde White, Lionel Jeffries, Lionel Murton, David Lodge, Sam Kydd) – Classic Movie Review 1853

Co-writer/director Val Guest’s 1958 British naval farce Up the Creek is creakily written but it is rescued from sinking by some amusing gags and situations, but mainly by the performances, especially from Peter Sellers proving […]

Nov, 17

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