Derek Winnert

Young Sherlock Holmes **** (1985, Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox, Sophie Ward, Anthony Higgins, Freddie Jones, Nigel Stock, Susan Fleetwood) – Classic Movie Review 8533

Director Barry Levinson’s 1985 Young Sherlock Holmes is a film that starts with a bright idea and always knows where it’s going. Screen-writer Chris Columbus, who wrote Gremlins and The Goonies suggests that Sir Arthur […]

Jun, 01 · in Reviews

Ma *** (2019, Octavia Spencer, Diana Silvers, Juliette Lewis, Luke Evans) – Movie Review

Octavia Spencer stars in Ma (2019) as a lonely woman called Sue Ann, aka Ma of course, who befriends a group of typically dumb American film teenagers looking for a good time and lets them […]

Jun, 01 · in Reviews

Godzilla: King of the Monsters * (2019, Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown) – Movie Review

Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) is a boring, plot-free filler film between Godzilla (2014) and Godzilla vs. Kong (2020). Admittedly the 131 minutes move swiftly and painlessly by in a slick, professional package. It has one […]

Jun, 01

The Happiest Millionaire *** (1967, Fred MacMurray, Tommy Steele, Greer Garson, John Davidson, Gladys Cooper, Lesley Ann Warren, Geraldine Page, Hermione Baddeley) – Classic Movie Review 8532

Director Norman Tokar’s 1967 The Happiest Millionaire is the last live-action film supervised personally as producer by Walt Disney (uncredited), though Bill Anderson is credited producer. It is a large-scale musical, with a modern-day Romeo […]

Jun, 01

Mad Dog Coll ** (1961, John Davis Chandler, Kay Doubleday, Brooke Hayward) – Classic Movie Review 8531

John Davis Chandler stars as notorious Thirties gangland killer Vincent ‘Mad Dog’ Coll (born on 20 July 1908), an Irish-American mob hitman, in director Burt Balaban’s fictionalised 1961 biographical crime drama Mad Dog Coll. He […]

Jun, 01

Follow Me, Boys! *** (1966, Fred MacMurray, Vera Miles, Lillian Gish) – Classic Movie Review 8530

Director Norman Tokar’s syrupy but successful 1966 Disney confection Follow Me, Boys! stars Fred MacMurray as big-city 30s saxophonist Lemuel Siddons, who sets up home in an Illinois countryside town, falls in love with and […]

Jun, 01

Hog Wild **** (1930, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dorothy Granger) – Classic Movie Review 8529

Director James Parrott’s 1930 comedy short Hog Wild finds Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy at their finest and funniest in a continuous series of perfectly carried out gags, with the most intricate attention paid to […]

May, 31

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