Derek Winnert

Here Comes the Groom **½ (1951, Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman, Alexis Smith, Franchot Tone, James Barton) – Classic Movie Review 10,360

Director Frank Capra’s 1951 musical romantic comedy Here Comes the Groom stars Bing Crosby as singing newspaper reporter Pete Garvey, a foreign correspondent who works in a Paris orphanage. He decides to adopt two of the […]

Sep, 29 · in Reviews

Breaking Glass *** (1980, Hazel O’Connor, Phil Daniels, Jon Finch, Jonathan Pryce) – Classic Movie Review 10,359

Director Brian Gibson’s 1980 Breaking Glass stars rock star Hazel O’Connor, who is just fine in her big film role as Kate, a pop singer who can’t stand the heat, and she’s got the backing […]

Sep, 29 · in Reviews

Breaking In *** (1989, Burt Reynolds, Casey Siemaszko, Sheila Kelley) – Classic Movie Review 10,358

The likeable 1989 crime comedy thriller Breaking In presents an unexpected pairing – Scotland’s Bill Forsyth directing and Burt Reynolds starring as the veteran professional safe-cracker Ernie who bumps into young amateur thief Mike (Casey Siemaszko), while also […]

Sep, 28

The Brass Legend **½ (1956, Hugh O’Brian, Nancy Gates, Raymond Burr) – Classic Movie Review 10,357

Director Gerd Oswald’s 1956 independently made black and white Western film The Brass Legend stars Hugh O’Brian as Sheriff Wade Adams, who sets out to rescue his fiancée Linda Gipson (Nancy Gates)’s kid brother, the […]

Sep, 28

Brass Target **½ (1978, Sophia Loren, John Cassavetes, Max von Sydow, George Kennedy, Patrick McGoohan, Robert Vaughn) – Classic Movie Review 10,356

Director John Hough’s fanciful 1978 MGM political action thriller Brass Target, based on the novel The Algonquin Project by Frederick Nolan, re-writes history and is low on credibility rating, but there is such a pile-up […]

Sep, 28

Across the Universe **** (2007, Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, T V Carpio) – Classic Movie Review 10,355

Director Julie Taymor’s glorious 2007 musical romantic drama film Across the Universe incorporates 33 compositions originally written by members of the Beatles, and stars Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, T V Carpio Dana […]

Sep, 27

Immortal Beloved * (1994, Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbé, Isabella Rossellini, Marco Hofschneider) – Classic Movie Review 10,354

Writer-director Bernard Rose’s fumbled 1994 film Immortal Beloved is a plush but pretty tedious historical biopic, with Gary Oldman bravely battling miscasting as musical ‘genius’ Ludwig van Beethoven, with the mystery of the composer’s Unsterbliche […]

Sep, 26

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