Derek Winnert

The Paleface **** (1948, Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Robert Armstrong) – Classic Movie Review 1171

Bob Hope stars in one of his best-loved roles as the totally inept dentist and confirmed coward ‘Painless’ Peter Potter, who hitches up with Jane Russell’s sharp-shooting gal Calamity Jane to dodge attacks from both Native […]

May, 02 · in Reviews

Pale Rider **** (1985, Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress, Christopher Penn, Richard Dysart) – Classic Movie Review 1,169

The 1985 American film Pale Rider is the highest-grossing Western of the 1980s, and Clint Eastwood’s only Western of the 1980s. Producer-director Clint Eastwood’s 1985 Western Pale Rider impresses with its riffs on the very similar […]

May, 02 · in Reviews

Pal Joey ***½ (1957, Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak) – Classic Movie Review 1168

Director George Sidney’s 1957 film musical is a good but annoyingly far from ideal version of the legendary Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart 1940 Broadway show. Frank Sinatra takes over Gene Kelly’s stage role as the womanising […]

May, 02

Pay it Forward **** (2000, Haley Joel Osment, Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, James Caviezel, Jay Mohr, Jon Bon Jovi, Angie Dickinson) – Classic Film Review 1167

Director Mimi Leder’s 2000 fine, good-spirited drama stars Haley Joel Osment as 11 and a half year-old Trevor McKinney, the young son of a working, single mom (Helen Hunt), who begins seventh grade at school […]

May, 02

Secondhand Lions **** (2003, Haley Joel Osment, Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, Kyra Sedgwick) – Classic Movie Review 1166

Writer-director Tim McCanlies’s 2003 Walt Disney movie stars The Sixth Sense’s Haley Joel Osment, who is superb as introverted young Walter, a kid sent off by his mom to live with his eccentric, story-telling great […]

May, 02

The Fighting Temptations ***½ (2003, Cuba Gooding Jr, Beyoncé Knowles, Mike Epps, Melba Moore, Rue McClanahan) – Classic Movie Review 1165

In director Jonathan Lynn’s 2003 comedy, Cuba Gooding Jr scores a great big hit playing Darrin Hill, a New York advertising executive who goes home to town of Monte Carlo, Georgia, to claim his aunt’s inheritance […]

May, 02

Resident Evil: Apocalypse *** (2004, Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr, Eric Mabius, Thomas Kretschmann, Sophie Vavasseur, Raz Adoti, Jared Harris, Mike Epps) – Classic Movie Review 1164

A welcome sequel to 2002’s $100 million hit Resident Evil, based on the popular video game, sees teenage boys’ dream Milla Jovovich returning to Raccoon City for more in-your-face kick-ass action. This time Milla’s Alice teams […]

May, 02

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