Derek Winnert

The Big Picture *** (1988, Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Emily Longstreth, J T Walsh, Michael McKean, Teri Hatcher, Martin Short, John Cleese) – Classic Movie Review 7893

Director Christopher Guest’s winning 1988 comedy The Big Picture stars Kevin Bacon as award-winning film school graduate Nick Chapman, who arrives at the office of horrible movie boss Allen Habel (J T Walsh) desperate to make […]

Dec, 07 · in Reviews

The Southerner **** (1945, Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J Carrol Naish, Beulah Bondi Percy Kilbride) – Classic Movie Review 7892

Zachary Scott stars as Sam Tucker, who battles to save his US Southern cotton farm from man and nature, in the 1945 drama The Southerner, a beautifully heartfelt, lyrical American film from esteemed French director […]

Dec, 07 · in Uncategorized
Meet the People *** (1944, Lucille Ball, Dick Powell, Virginia O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 7,891

Meet the People *** (1944, Lucille Ball, Dick Powell, Virginia O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 7,891

  The 1944 romantic musical comedy film Meet the People stars Lucille Ball as a theatre actress who proves she is not a stuck-up star by taking on the war work of staging a musical […]

Dec, 07
A Southern Yankee [My Hero] *** (1948, Red Skelton, Brian Donlevy, Arlene Dahl) – Classic Movie Review 7890

A Southern Yankee [My Hero] *** (1948, Red Skelton, Brian Donlevy, Arlene Dahl) – Classic Movie Review 7890

Director Edward Sedgwick’s 1948 slapstick comedy A Southern Yankee [My Hero] stars Red Skelton as Aubrey Filmore, a silly St Louis bellhop who becomes a silly Yankee spy after being mistaken for The Grey Spider […]

Dec, 07

The Big Parade of Comedy **** (1964, Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, The Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy) Classic Movie Review 7889

Writer/ producer/ director Robert Youngson’s mostly marvellous 1964 comedy film compilation The Big Parade of Comedy is assembled from footage of the MGM studio’s golden age. The tasty comedy excerpts (mostly slapstick) juxtapose sophisticated Greta […]

Dec, 07

The Road Home [Wo de fu qin mu qin] **** (1999, Ziyi Zhang, Honglei Sun, Hao Zheng) – Classic Movie Review 7887

There is superb acting in Zhang Yimou’s heart-rending, exquisitely realised 1999 Chinese film The Road Home, a tale of pure and simple love that does not put a foot wrong and will have hardly a […]

Dec, 06

Dominick and Eugene [Nicky and Gino] **** (1988, Tom Hulce, Ray Liotta, Jamie Lee Curtis) – Classic Movie Review 7888

Director Robert M Young’s unforgettable 1988 Dominick and Eugene [Nicky and Gino] stars Tom Hulce and Ray Liotta as twin brothers Dominick and Eugene Luciano, one a dustman, brain-damaged in childhood, the other a promising doctor. […]

Dec, 06

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