Derek Winnert

Miracle on 34th Street ***½ (1994, Richard Attenborough, Elizabeth Perkins, Dylan McDermott, Mara Wilson, J T Walsh, James Remar, Robert Prosky, Jane Leeves) – Classic Movie Review 509

Richard Attenborough gives a skilled and winning performance as Kris Kringle, a twinkly old man who claims he’s the real Santa Claus, in the plush and splendidly realised 1994 film Miracle on 34th Street. A […]

Dec, 13 · in Reviews

Miracle on 34th Street ***** (1947, Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O’Hara, John Payne) – Classic Movie Review 508

Oscar-winning Edmund Gwenn is a twinkling miracle as merry old Kris Kringle in the delicious 1947 Christmas fantasy film Miracle on 34th Street about a whiskery old man who thinks he’s Santa. In a fondly […]

Dec, 13 · in Reviews

Muppets from Space *** (1999, Jeffrey Tambor, F Murray Abraham, Rob Schneider, Josh Charles, Ray Liotta, David Arquette, Andie MacDowell, Kathy Griffin, Hulk Hogan, Pat Hingle) – Classic Movie Review 507

The sixth Muppet movie, the 1999 Muppets from Space, is an amusing, soft-hearted extra-terrestrial adventure about the search for the Great Gonzo’s past. Directed by Tim Hill in 1999, the sixth Muppet movie, subtitled the […]

Dec, 12

Muppet Treasure Island *** (1996, Tim Curry, Billy Connolly, Jennifer Saunders, Kevin Bishop) – Classic Movie Review 506

Yo-ho-ho! Director Brian Henson’s thoroughly entertaining, delightfully good-humoured 1996 pirate show brings the merriest of mayhem and music with the Muppets. Jim Hawkins (Kevin Bishop) sets off with a treasure map and the Great Gonzo and […]

Dec, 12

The Muppet Christmas Carol **** (1992, Michael Caine) – Classic Movie Review 505

Michael Caine makes his musical movie début as the singing curmudgeon Ebenezer Scrooge in the Jim Henson company’s very jolly 1992 film reworking of the Charles Dickens tale The Muppet Christmas Carol. ‘December is the […]

Dec, 12

The Innocents ***** (1961, Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins, Pamela Franklin, Martin Stephens, Michael Redgrave) – Classic Movie Review 504

The haunting 1961 psychological horror film The Innocents with Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde and Michael Redgrave: a ‘strange new experience in shock’. Producer-director Jack Clayton’s 1961 psychological horror film The Innocents is a haunting, nightmarish, […]

Dec, 12

Cinema Paradiso [Nuovo Cinema Paradiso] ***** (1988, Philippe Noiret, Salvatore Cascio, Enzo Cannavale, Antonella Attili, Marco Leonardi, Leopoldo Trieste, Jacques Perrin, Brigitte Fossey) – Classic Movie Review 503

Writer-director Giuseppe Tornatore’s glorious 1988 love letter to the movies Cinema Paradiso [Nuovo Cinema Paradiso] is now deservedly hailed as a classic of Italian cinema. This 1989 Best Foreign Film Oscar-winner and Cannes Jury prize-winner […]

Dec, 12

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