Derek Winnert

Les Triplettes de Belleville [The Triplets of Belleville] [Belleville Rendez-vous] (2003, voices of Michèle Caucheteux, Jean-Claude Donda, Michel Robin) – Classic Movie Review 8812

Writer-director Sylvain Chomet’s 2003 French animated gem Les Triplettes de Belleville [The Triplets of Belleville] [Belleville Rendez-vous], told with very little dialogue, is an impressively designed, highly imaginative and vibrant cartoon, packed with attractively eccentric, […]

Aug, 10 · in Reviews

Bringing Down the House ** (2003, Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, Eugene Levy, Joan Plowright, Jean Smart, Betty White) – Classic Movie Review 8811

Director Adam Shankman’s 2003 Bringing Down the House stars Steve Martin, who enjoys his best role and biggest hit in ages as a stuffy tax lawyer, Peter Sanderson, who meets a lot of trouble after […]

Aug, 09 · in Reviews

Belles on Their Toes *** (1952, Jeanne Crain, Myrna Loy, Debra Paget) – Classic Movie Review 8810

Director Henry Levin’s 1952 Belles on Their Toes is the too-sentimental but still amusing and appealing sequel to the sharper 1950 family comedy Cheaper by the Dozen. [Spoiler alert] There is no Clifton Webb this […]

Aug, 09

My Way Home ***** (1978, Stephen Archibald, Paul Kermack, Jessie Combe, Joseph Blatchley) – Classic Movie Review 8809

Writer-director Bill Douglas’s 1978 black and white British autobiographical drama My Way Home is the third and perhaps most impressive part of The Bill Douglas Trilogy begun with My Childhood (1972) and My Ain Folk […]

Aug, 09

My Ain Folk **** (1973, Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith) – Classic Movie Review 8808

In My Ain Folk (1973), part two of writer-director Bill Douglas’s autobiographical British drama The Bill Douglas Trilogy, Jamie (Stephen Archibald), the unwanted Scots boy of My Childhood (1972), who is living with his grandmother […]

Aug, 09

My Childhood **** (1972, Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith) – Classic Movie Review 8807

The Bill Douglas Trilogy, made on tiny budgets from the British Film Institute, are dour and downbeat, highly personal autobiographical films, but they cast a remarkable spell in terms of mood and emotion that is […]

Aug, 09

Coming to America ** (1988, Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones, Shari Headley, John Amos) – Classic Movie Review 8806

Director John Landis’s 1988 romantic comedy Coming to America represents a mild return to form for Eddie Murphy, engagingly playing Akeem Joffer, the powerful crown prince of the fictional African nation of Zamunda, who comes […]

Aug, 08

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