Derek Winnert

Bambi **** (1942, Walt Disney) – Classic Movie Review 1415

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs supervising director David Hand’s much-loved Walt Disney 1942 animated feature film is dazzlingly well animated in lovely Technicolor images by a team of sequence directors Hand is supervising. In […]

Jul, 11 · in Reviews

Planet of the Apes *** (2001, Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter) – Classic Movie Review 1414

In 2001, everyone was going bananas for director Tim Burton’s ape-tising remake of the 1967 movie. Mark Wahlberg takes on Charlton Heston’s old role as US Air Force astronaut Captain Leo Davidson who, chasing a chimp […]

Jul, 11 · in Reviews

Transformers: Age of Extinction *** (2014, Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor, T J Miller, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer) – Movie Review

Transformers 4 is an awesome but soul-less juggernaut of a stonking, barn-storming action thriller, cruelly dumping the nice original cast after 2014’s Transformers: Age of Extinction, and instead randomly employing today’s favourite action star Mark Wahlberg as widowed […]

Jul, 10

How to Train Your Dragon 2 *** (2014, voices of Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett) – Movie Review

Kids and their attendant grown-ups will be satisfied with writer-director Dean DeBlois’s robust, pleasant and amusing yet unnecessary sequel to the DreamWorks 2010 animation hit, based on Cressida Cowell‘s book series. It’s altogether totally fine […]

Jul, 10

Boyhood ***** (2014, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane) – Movie Review

Writer-director Richard Linklater’s Boyhood is a five-star marvel, probably the best film I’ve seen all year, or at least the one I liked, admired, enjoyed and relished most. It’s the perfect antidote to all the […]

Jul, 10

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ***** (1937, Walt Disney) – Classic Movie Review 1412

‘Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?’ – the jealous wicked Queen. Supervising director David Hand’s 1937 animation Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a trailblazer as the first […]

Jul, 10

Thursday’s Children **** (1954, dir Lindsay Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 1411

Director Lindsay Anderson’s rousing 21-minute 1954 British short documentary film about the education of deaf children at The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, Kent, won the Academy Award in 1955 for Best Documentary Short Subject. […]

Jul, 09

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