Derek Winnert

Man in the Shadow ** (1957, Jeff Chandler, Orson Welles, Colleen Miller) – Classic Movie Review 7998

Director Jack Arnold’s 1957 CinemaScope and black and white Western film Man in the Shadow [Pay the Devil] stars the odd couple of Jeff Chandler and Orson Welles, along with Colleen Miller. It was made […]

Jan, 10 · in Reviews

Mary Poppins Returns ** (2018, Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, Julie Walters) – Movie Review

So it turns out that Mary Poppins can turn back time, and that’s what Disney can do too in this out-of-its-time sequel to Mary Poppins. Mary Poppins Returns is, as the title implies, supposed to […]

Jan, 10 · in Reviews

The Horse’s Mouth ** (1958, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Renée Houston) – Classic Movie Review 7997

Alec Guinness both plays the dedicated non-conformist London artist hero Gulley Jimson seeking his artistic ideal and writes the screenplay of director Ronald Neame’s lifeless, disappointing 1958 British film of Joyce Cary’s 1944 novel The Horse’s […]

Jan, 09

Malta Story ** (1953, Alec Guinness, Anthony Steel, Muriel Pavlow, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson, Renée Asherson, Hugh Burden, Nigel Stock) – Classic Movie Review 7996

In the middle of a long run of comedy hits, Alec Guinness seems out of his territory in director Brian Desmond Hurst’s 1953 Malta Story, a dully conventional war picture about a British flight lieutenant […]

Jan, 09

Bumblebee ** (2018, Hailee Steinfeld, Jorge Lendeborg Jr, John Cena) – Movie Review

Director Michael Bay and star Mark Wahlberg having called time’s up after Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), the rebooted Bumblebee (2018) is a slick but tepid attempt to prolong the Transformers franchise past its sell-by date. As dithering teen […]

Jan, 09

Death Becomes Her *** (1992, Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Bruce Willis, Isabella Rossellini, Ian Ogilvy) – Classic Movie Review 7995

The 1992 Death Becomes Her is an intriguing attempt at a black-comedy fantasy farce by Robert Zemeckis, the biggest money-spinning director of all time, who gives Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and Bruce Willis the opportunity […]

Jan, 09

Death at Broadcasting House *** [Death at a Broadcast] (1934, Ian Hunter, Austin Trevor, Henry Kendall, Jack Hawkins, Donald Wolfit, Elizabeth Welch) – Classic Movie Review 7994

Director Reginald Denham’s light-hearted 1934 British mystery thriller Death at Broadcasting House [Death at a Broadcast] is a sprightly BBC radio murder mystery in which an actor is strangled while broadcasting at Broadcasting House, the BBC’s […]

Jan, 09

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