Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "dancing"

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Step Up 4: Miami Heat [Step Up Revolution] *** (2012, Kathryn McCormick, Ryan Guzman, Peter Gallagher, Cleopatra Coleman) – Classic Movie Review 4383

With its stupendous dancing and good spirits, but creaky everything else, director Scott Speer’s 2012 Step Up 4 is pleasant and welcome enough, even if it now has no relation to Channing Tatum’s original 2006 Step Up. Kathryn McCormick […]

Sep, 19

Last Chance Harvey ***½ (2008, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Eileen Atkins, Kathy Baker, James Brolin, Richard Schiff, Liane Balaban) – Classic Movie Review 4342

Golden Globe nominations for stars Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson show their huge appeal in writer-director Joel Hopkins’s entertaining London-based 2008 romcom. Hoffman plays older American advert jingle-writer Harvey Shine, who is over here in […]

Sep, 11

The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas ** (2000, Mark Addy, Kristen Johnston, Stephen Baldwin, Joan Collins, Ann-Margret, Jane Krakowski, Alan Cumming, Thomas Gibson, Harvey Korman) – Classic Movie Review 3899

Britain’s Mark Addy takes over from John Goodman as Fred Flintstone, who travels to Rock Vegas where his future wife Wilma Slaghoople is pursued by playboy Chip Rockefeller (Thomas Gibson), in this soppy but happy 2000 […]

Jun, 21

The Trip *** (1967, Peter Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper) – Classic Movie Review 3866

Director Roger Corman’s infamous 1967 drugs exploitation psychedelic movie is notable for Jack Nicholson writing the intriguing if disjointed screenplay. The story focuses on young television commercial director Paul Groves (Peter Fonda, convincing) who gets into a state […]

Jun, 15

The Harvey Girls **** (1946, Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, John Hodiak, Virginia O’Brien, Angela Lansbury, Marjorie Main, Preston Foster) – Classic Movie Review 3606

Director George Sidney’s delightful 1946 MGM period Western musical sees Judy Garland on her best form (as Susan Bradley) performing great numbers, including the brilliant Oscar-winning Best Original Song ‘On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa […]

Apr, 23

Royal Wedding [Wedding Bells] ***½ (1950, Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Sarah Churchill, Peter Lawford, Keenan Wynn) – Classic Movie Review 3380

Director Stanley Donen’s tasty 1950 movie finds the MGM studios in the mood for cashing in the worldwide publicity and frenzy surrounding Queen Elizabeth’s wedding to Prince Philip with a cute musical with Fred Astaire and […]

Feb, 19

White Savage *** (1943, Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Sabu, Turhan Bey, Thomas Gomez, Sidney Toler) – Classic Movie Review 3207

The 1943 Technicolor escapist fantasy adventure film White Savage reunites Maria Montez, Jon Hall and Sabu in a campy, colourful exotic tale. It is kind of the Raiders of the Lost Ark of its day. […]

Jan, 01

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