Derek Winnert

Mr Mom *** (1983, Michael Keaton, Teri Garr, Frederick Koehler) – Classic Movie Review 7983

Director Stan Dragoti’s 1983 comedy Mr Mom is a most enjoyable variation on the familiar comic theme of wife going out to work when her husband gets fired and dad learning the perils of domestic […]

Jan, 05 · in Reviews

Vice **** (2018, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell) – Movie Review

Vice is a tremendous movie on fighting form. Bale brilliant. Writer-director Adam McKay 2018 biopic Vice is a truly tremendous movie on best fighting form, with Christian Bale absolutely brilliant in his Golden Globe-winning performance […]

Jan, 05 · in Reviews

To the Victor ** (1948, Dennis Morgan, Viveca Lindfors, Bruce Bennett, Victor Francen, Dorothy Malone) – Classic Movie Review 7982

Director Delmer Daves’s well-meaning, acceptable 1948 drama To the Victor tells a romantic drama tale of gloom and doom, and stars Dennis Morgan, Viveca Lindfors, Bruce Bennett, Victor Francen and Dorothy Malone. Morgan stars as […]

Jan, 05

Night Unto Night ** (1949, Ronald Reagan, Viveca Lindfors, Broderick Crawford) – Classic Movie Review 7981

Director Don Siegel’s intriguing and offbeat but rather ploddingly handled 1949 Warner Bros black and white romantic drama Night unto Night stars Ronald Reagan, Viveca Lindfors, Rosemary DeCamp and Broderick Crawford. Lindfors and Reagan play […]

Jan, 05

Where’s That Fire? *** (1939, Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt) – Classic Movie Review 7980

Director Marcel Varnel’s 1939 British comedy Where’s That Fire? Stars Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt, who fire on all cylinders in Hay’s slightly patchy but generally very funny final fling for Gainsborough Pictures […]

Jan, 04

Where’s Poppa? **** (1970, George Segal, Ruth Gordon, Ron Leibman) – Classic Movie Review 7979

Director Carl Reiner’s wicked 1970 comedy Where’s Poppa? is a hilarious black farce, with marvellous comedy performances from the treasurable George Segal and Ruth Gordon as the Jewish attorney Gordon Hocheiser and his grotesque, crazy, […]

Jan, 04

Shoplifters [Manbiki kazoku] ***** (2018, Lily Franky, Sakura Andô, Mayu Matsuoka, Jyo Kairi, Miyu Sasaki) – Movie Review

Writer-director Hirokazu Koreeda’s warm and wonderful Shoplifters (2018) won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018. It focuses on a poor Japanese family of small-time thieves, shoplifting to make ends meet, who take in […]

Jan, 04

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