Derek Winnert

The Kid Who Would Be King ** (2019, Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Denise Gough, Dean Chaumoo, Tom Taylor, Rhianna Dorris)

The Kid Who Would Be King (2019) is a good-hearted but lame, tame and wilfully old-fashioned kids’ adventure movie, offering a fairly dull spin on the Arthurian legend. It just goes to show that, like […]

Feb, 23 · in Reviews

Fall in Love at First Kiss [Yi wen ding qing] **** (2019, Talu Wang, Yun Lin, Li-Tung Chang) – Movie Review

Director Frankie Chen [Yu Shan Chen]’s Chinese teen romcom Fall in Love at First Kiss is sweet, cute, charming, fun and amusing. It pulls off the clever trick of balancing broad slapstick comedy with full-on […]

Feb, 23 · in Reviews

Next of Kin ** (1989, Patrick Swayze, Liam Neeson, Adam Baldwin) – Classic Movie Review 8165

Patrick Swayze stars in director John Irvin’s 1989 crime action thriller Next of Kin as a cop called Truman Gates, transplanted from the backwoods of the Appalachians to the mean streets of Chicago to catch […]

Feb, 22

The Next of Kin **** (1942, Mervyn Johns, John Chandos, Nova Pilbeam, Stephen Murray) – Classic Movie Review 8164

Director Thorold Dickinson’s fascinating 1942 British black and white World War Two wartime propaganda thriller, about careless talk costing lives, was expanded by Ealing Studios from an army training film commissioned by the British War […]

Feb, 22

The Halfway House **** (1944, Mervyn Johns, Glynis Johns, Tom Walls, Françoise Rosay, Alfred Drayton, Guy Middleton, Sally Ann Howes, Esmond Knight) – Classic Movie Review 8163

Directors Basil Dearden and Alberto Cavalcanti’s haunting 1944 British black and white fantasy mystery drama The Halfway House stars Mervyn Johns and his real-life daughter Glynis Johns as an inn-keeper (Rhys) and his daughter (Gwyneth) […]

Feb, 22

John Paul Jones ** (1959, Robert Stack, Marisa Pavan, Charles Coburn, Bette Davis) – Classic Movie Review 8162

Director John Farrow’s 1959 swashbuckling, naval history adventure movie John Paul Jones stars Robert Stack as the Scottish adventurer and American Revolutionary War naval hero, based on the story Nor’wester by Clements Ripley. He makes it […]

Feb, 21
Man in the Moon ** (1960, Kenneth More, Shirley Anne Field, Michael Hordern, Norman Bird) – Classic Movie Review 8161

Man in the Moon ** (1960, Kenneth More, Shirley Anne Field, Michael Hordern, Norman Bird) – Classic Movie Review 8161

Director Basil Dearden’s silly 1960 British black and white satirical comedy Man in the Moon tackles the then topical subject of sending the first astronaut into space. It is occasionally amusing, but mostly it is […]

Feb, 21

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