Derek Winnert

Vanya on 42nd Street **** (1994, Wallace Shawn, Julianne Moore, Jerry Mayer, Phoebe Brand, George Gaynes) – Classic Movie Review 11,267

Director Louis Malle’s 1994 American film Vanya on 42nd Street, written by Andre Gregory and starring Wallace Shawn and Julianne Moore, is an intimate, interpretive performance of the 1899 play Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov […]

Jun, 03 · in Reviews

Little Monsters *** (1989, Fred Savage, Howie Mandel, Daniel Stern) – Classic Movie Review 11,266

Director Richard Alan Greenberg’s 1989 children’s comedy adventure Little Monsters is a cute and cheerful junior monster romp about a teenager called Brian Stevenson (Fred Savage from The Wonder Years), who traps the little monster […]

Jun, 03 · in Reviews

Special Agent ** (1949, William Eythe, Kasey Rogers, George Reeves, Paul Valentine) – Classic Movie Review 11,265

Director William C Thomas’s standard issue 1949 black and white thriller Special Agent stars William Eythe as Railway Special Agent Johnny Douglas, who battles train payroll sibling thieves Paul and Edmond Devereaux (George Reeves, Paul […]

Jun, 03

Little Mister Jim ** (1946, Jackie ‘Butch’ Jenkins, James Craig, Frances Gifford) – Classic Movie Review 11,264

Director Fred Zinnemann’s wafer-thin, scarcely winsome 1946 MGM black and white film Little Mister Jim tells the tale of life on an army post, with Jackie ‘Butch’ Jenkins as the mildly diverting little star playing […]

Jun, 02

My Brother Talks to Horses *** (1947, Jackie ‘Butch’ Jenkins, Peter Lawford, Beverly Tyler) – Classic Movie Review 11,263

MGM’s 1946 junior-league Damon Runyon-style fantasy comedy My Brother Talks to Horses about a psychic boy called Lewie Penrose (buck-toothed Jackie ‘Butch’ Jenkins, aged nine), who provides dead certs for racehorse gamblers, would have been […]

Jun, 02

My Dear Miss Aldrich *** (1937, Edna May Oliver, Maureen O’Sullivan, Walter Pidgeon) – Classic Movie Review 11,262

‘The Season’s Gayest Love Story!’ A young, attractive Nebraska newspaper heiress, Miss Martha Aldrich (Maureen O’Sullivan), repeatedly clashes with the stubborn managing editor (Walter Pidgeon) of the New York paper she has inherited. His attitude […]

Jun, 02

My Dear Secretary ** (1948, Laraine Day, Kirk Douglas, Keenan Wynn, Rudy Vallee, Helen Walker) – Classic Movie Review 11,261

Director Charles Martin’s 1948 black and white film My Dear Secretary is a romantic comedy in the marital vein with a bestselling romance novel author (Kirk Douglas) whose secretary-turned-wife (Laraine Day) writes a bestseller, much […]

Jun, 02

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