Derek Winnert

The Seven Little Foys **** (1955, Bob Hope, Milly Vitale, George Tobias) – Classic Movie Review 9203

Co-writer/ director Melville Shavelson’s 1955 Technicolor and VistaVision biographical comedy drama The Seven Little Foys stars Bob Hope, who is just the man to play the legendary vaudeville comic Eddie Foy, in this engaging biopic […]

Dec, 30 · in Reviews

Little Nellie Kelly ** (1940, Judy Garland, George Murphy, Charles Winninger) – Classic Movie Review 9202

Director Norman Taurog’s 1940 MGM black and white family musical comedy Little Nellie Kelly is a forgotten, or at any rate overlooked, Judy Garland movie, although it was a hit at the time, earning MGM […]

Dec, 29 · in Reviews

Little Murders *** (1971, Elliott Gould, Marcia Rodd, Vincent Gardenia, Donald Sutherland, Alan Arkin) – Classic Movie Review 9201

Director Alan Arkin’s ambitious and savage 1971 killing spree satirical comedy Little Murders stars Elliott Gould, Marcia Rodd, Vincent Gardenia, Donald Sutherland and Alan Arkin. The brilliant humorist Jules Feiffer adapts his own blacker-than-black comedy […]

Dec, 29

Ip Man 4: The Finale *** (2019, Donnie Yen, Scott Adkins, Kwok-Kwan Chan) – Movie Review

Donnie Yen stars in the simple but likeable Ip Man 4: The Finale (2019) as the Sixties Kung Fu master Ip Man, who this time travels to the US where his student Bruce Lee (Kwok-Kwan […]

Dec, 29

Pavarotti **** (2019, Luciano Pavarotti) – Movie Review

Oscar-winning director Ron Howard’s painstaking 2019 labour-of-love documentary Pavarotti about the life and work of opera legend Luciano Pavarotti is two hours of vintage opera bliss. Notable among the interviewees are Nicoletta Mantovani, Bono, Angela Gheorghiu, […]

Dec, 29

Action Jackson ** (1988, Carl Weathers, Craig T Nelson, Vanity, Sharon Stone) – Classic Movie Review 9200

Director Craig R Baxley’s 1988 hard-hitting action movie Action Jackson stars Carl Weathers as the off-beat do-gooder Action Jackson, a tough Detroit cop leaving a trail of devastation behind him as he rampages after superbad […]

Dec, 29

Caprice ** (1967, Doris Day, Richard Harris, Ray Walston) – Classic Movie Review 9199

Co-writer/ director Frank Tashlin’s 1967 industrial espionage spy spoof comedy thriller Caprice is set in the cosmetics world and stars Doris Day as top industrial designer businesswoman Patricia Foster, who, with the help of suave […]

Dec, 29

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