Derek Winnert

Little Men ** (1940, Kay Francis, Jack Oakie, George Bancroft, Jimmy Lydon) – Classic Movie Review 9205

Director Norman Z McLeod’s 1940 Little Men is a quick, well-produced remake of Phil Rosen’s 1935 film Little Men, and is marginally better, with Kay Francis starring as Jo March, the main character in Louisa […]

Dec, 30 · in Reviews

Alamo Bay **** (1985, Amy Madigan, Ed Harris, Ho Nguyen) – Classic Movie Review 9204

Director Louis Malle tackles the meaty socially conscious theme of racial conflict between Vietnamese immigrants and a fishing bay town community in Texas in his 1985 drama Alamo Bay. The telling of the story, inspired […]

Dec, 30 · in Reviews

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

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

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

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