Derek Winnert

The Lion King III *** (2004, voices Nathan Lane, Ernie Sabella, Matthew Broderick) – Classic Movie Review 1622

Ten years on The Lion King III is the still welcome and entertaining second sequel to the 1994 Walt Disney cartoon favourite. Director Bradley Raymond’s and writer Tom Rogers’s seamless 2004 animation ingeniously provides the […]

Sep, 02 · in Reviews

The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride *** (1998, voices Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane) – Classic Movie Review 1621

Directors Darrell Rooney and Rob LaDuca’s seamless 1998 first sequel to the 1994 Walt Disney cartoon favourite is very welcome and entertaining if inevitably several notches down from the brilliance of the original. It helps a […]

Sep, 02 · in Reviews

The Lion King ***** (1994, voices Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones) – Classic Movie Review 1620

Directors Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff’s 1994 animation favourite featuring Matthew Broderick as the voice of the lion Simba (and Jonathan Taylor Thomas as his young cub version) is one of the Walt Disney studio’s […]

Sep, 02

At First Sight *** (1998, Val Kilmer, Mira Sorvino, Kelly McGillis) – Classic Movie Review 1619

Producer-director Irwin Winkler’s sweetly sensitive 1998 drama stars Mira Sorvino as city woman Amy Benic, a Manhattan architect who meets and falls for a proud, self-sufficient blind bloke called Virgil Adamson (Val Kilmer). A massage therapist at a […]

Sep, 01

Unforgettable * (1996, Ray Liotta, Linda Fiorentino, Peter Coyote) – Classic Movie Review 1618

John Dahl, the director of the neo film noir modern classics Kill Me Again, Red Rock West and The Last Seduction, comes a cropper this time with this, ironically, totally forgettable 1996 sci-fi mystery thriller. […]

Sep, 01

The Unforgiven **** (Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy, Doug McClure) – Classic Movie Review 1617

Burt Lancaster, Audie Murphy and Doug McClure star as rancher brothers of the Zachary frontier family in this sterling, thoughtful Western directed by John Huston in 1960. Taken from a novel by Alan Le May who also wrote the […]

Sep, 01

The Last Seduction **** (1994, Linda Fiorentino, Bill Pullman, Peter Berg) – Classic Movie Review 1616

Director John Dahl’s mesmerising, ultra-stylish 1994 retro neo-film noir thriller is the third part of his marvellous trilogy following his critically acclaimed successes with Kill Me Again (1989) and Red Rock West (1993). Writer Steve Barancik’s screenplay […]

Sep, 01

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