Derek Winnert

Hook ** (1991, Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Bob Hoskins, Julia Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 1421

Director Steven Spielberg’s 1991 family film is a long, lumbering and unwieldy, Disney-style version of J M Barrie’s Peter Pan fantasy tale. Unusually for a Spielberg movie, it lacks the magic spark it needs. Rather than making […]

Jul, 13 · in Reviews

The Mother **** (2003, Anne Reid, Daniel Craig, Peter Vaughan) – Classic Movie Review 1422

Director Roger Michell’s 2003 drama is a challenging, taboo-breaking eye-opener, with a provocative, poignant screenplay by Hanif Kureishi and marvellous, bold performances by Anne Reid and Daniel Craig. The husband (Peter Vaughan) of an English woman (Reid) […]

Jul, 13 · in Reviews

Return to Oz *** (1985, (Fairuza Balk, Jean Marsh, Nicol Williamson) – Classic Movie Review 1420

The Walt Disney studio returns to L Frank Baum’s original stories for this dark-tinged 1985 fantasy about Dorothy’s non-musical trip to a derelict Yellow Brick Road and a ruined Emerald City. It’s based on Baum’s […]

Jul, 13

Return to Never Land ** (2002, Walt Disney) – Classic Movie Review 1419

Directed by Robin Budd and Donovan Cook in 2002, Return to Never Land is an all too ordinary, flatly animated and unimaginative animated fantasy comedy-drama sequel to Walt Disney’s classic 1953 cartoon Peter Pan. Though […]

Jul, 12

Alice in Wonderland **** (1933, Cary Grant, W C Fields, Gary Cooper, Charlotte Henry) – Classic Movie Review 1418

‘I’ve often seen a cat without a grin – but a grin without a cat!’ – Alice. Three cheers for director Norman Z McLeod’s all-star, high-budget classic 1933 movie version of the two Lewis Carroll […]

Jul, 12

Peter Pan ***** (1953, Walt Disney) – Classic Movie Review 1,416

Ah, yes, ‘Never Smile at a Crocodile’. The 1953 classic animated feature film Peter Pan is one of the Walt Disney studio’s very best. Supervising directors Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi and Wilfred Jackson’s 1953 classic […]

Jul, 12

Alice in Wonderland **** (1951, Walt Disney) – Classic Movie Review 1413

Supervised by directors Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske and Wilfred Jackson, Walt Disney’s attractively designed Americanised 1951 animated feature film of Lewis Carroll’s books Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass is charming […]

Jul, 11

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