Derek Winnert

Bringing Up Baby ***** (1938, Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, May Robson, Fritz Feld) – Classic Movie Review 1,229

Howard Hawks’s 1938 classic film Bringing Up Baby is the quintessential 30s screwball comedy, providing a perfect zany showcase for its all-time great stars Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. Producer-director Howard Hawks’s 1938 classic film […]

May, 18 · in Reviews

The Philadelphia Story ***** (1940, Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Stewart) – Classic Film Review 1,228

Director George Cukor’s 1940 ultra-smart romantic comedy film The Philadelphia Story is one of Hollywood’s most glorious, with three of its all-time great stars at their most effortless, alluring, dazzling best. The movie represents the […]

May, 17 · in Reviews

Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House ***** (1948, Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas) – Classic Film Review 1227

Ideally cast, screwball comedy legends Cary Grant and Myrna Loy prove a dream team here in 1948, giving among their most delicious ever screen performances as Jim and Muriel Blandings. They’re a couple of New York-dwelling […]

May, 17

Mr Deeds ** (2002, Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder, John Turturro) – Classic Film Review 1226

Adam Sandler of all people is miscast as a simple, honest pizza-parlour owner, Longfellow Deeds, who moves to the big city to inherit $40billion and meets greedy opportunists after his money. There’s an ugly rash […]

May, 17

Mr Deeds Goes to Town ***** (1936, Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, Raymond Walburn, Lionel Stander, Walter Catlett, George Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 1,225

Frank Capra won his second Best Director Oscar for one of his most beloved movies, the 1936 Mr Deeds Goes to Town. Gary Cooper shines brilliantly as the great American everyman Longfellow Deeds. Director Frank […]

May, 17

Mr Smith Goes to Washington ***** (1939, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee, Thomas Mitchell, Eugene Pallette, Beulah Bondi) – Classic Movie Review 1224

Legendary director Frank Capra’s perfectly honed, much-loved 1939 classic Mr Smith Goes to Washington is a politically-minded comedy drama follow-up to his triumphant 1936 Gary Cooper movie Mr Deeds Goes to Town. Mr Smith centres […]

May, 17

The Quick and the Dead *** (1995, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe) – Classic Film Review 1223

Director Sam Raimi’s entertaining, if patchy, very violent 1995 black-comedy Western spoofs the style and themes of Sergio Leone’s spaghetti Westerns. It stars Sharon Stone as you never saw her before as Ellen, a leather-clad […]

May, 17

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