Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Moonrise Kingdom **** (2012, Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton) – Classic Movie Review 6984

The ever quirky co-writer/ director Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom (2012) takes place on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, when a 12-year-old boy (Jared Gilman as Sam) and a 12-year-old girl […]

May, 01 · in Reviews

The Huggetts Abroad ** (1949, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Susan Shaw, Petula Clark, Dinah Sheridan, Hugh McDermott, Jimmy Hanley, Peter Hammond, Amy Veness) – Classic Movie Review 6983

Ken Annaklin’s spirited 1949 British comedy The Huggetts Abroad is the third in the film trilogy spun off from the popular characters in 1947’s Holiday Camp.  Director Ken Annaklin’s 1949 British comedy The Huggetts Abroad […]

Apr, 30 · in Reviews

Vote for Huggett ** (1949, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Susan Shaw, Petula Clark, David Tomlinson, Diana Dors) – Classic Movie Review 6982

The Huggetts are back in director Ken Annakin’s 1949 British comedy film comic tale of small-town corruption, obviously modelled on gently spoofing the popular American political dramas of the day. Jack Warner reprises his role as […]

Apr, 30

The Road to Hong Kong ** (1962, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Joan Collins) – Classic Movie Review 6981

Bing Crosby and Bob Hope’s seventh romp is the end of the road for Hope and Crosby’s ‘Road to…’ movies, though unfairly their old co-star Dorothy Lamour (who had semi-retired a decade earlier, aged only […]

Apr, 29

Road to Morocco **** (1942, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour) – Classic Movie Review 6980

The vivaciously funny 1942 comedy film Road to Morocco finds Bing Crosby and Bob Hope off on their third ‘Road to …’ skylark, a wild spoof of all the Arabian movies ever made. Dorothy Lamour […]

Apr, 29

Road to Zanzibar *** (1941, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Una Merkel, Eric Blore) – Classic Movie Review 6979

‘ IT’S THAT GLEESOME THREESOME AGAIN! Giving you your worth in mirth! Topping all the fun in Road to Singapore!’ Director Victor Schertzinger’s gleesome 1941 comedy is the funny sequel to Road to Singapore (1940), in which […]

Apr, 29

Good Time Girl *** (1948, Jean Kent, Dennis Price, Flora Robson, Griffith Jones, Herbert Lom, Bonar Colleano, Diana Dors) – Classic Movie Review 6978

Director David MacDonald’s 1948 British noir thriller Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as a slum slut called Gwen Rawlings, who escapes from her young offenders’ prison, joins some crooks, kills a copper in a […]

Apr, 29

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