Derek Winnert

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Our Very Own ** (1950, Ann Blyth, Farley Granger, Joan Evans, Jane Wyatt, Ann Dvorak, Donald Cook, Natalie Wood) – Classic Movie Review 8783

Director David Miller’s good-hearted, sentimental drama 1950 Our Very Own is lovingly crafted but largely wastes the talents of Ann Blyth, Farley Granger and a 12-year-old Natalie Wood. Blyth goes through the motions as Gail […]

Aug, 01

Amazing Grace ** (2018, Aretha Franklin, James Cleveland) – Movie Review

Director Sydney Pollack was totally inexperienced in shooting any kind of music documentary when he directed the fascinating music documentary Amazing Grace (2018) that documents the two nights in Watts, Los Angeles in January 1972 when […]

May, 13

License to Drive [Licence to Drive] * (1988, Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Carol Kane, Richard Masur, Heather Graham) – Classic Movie Review 7676

The title of director Greg Beeman’s 1988 film License to Drive [Licence to Drive] focuses audience attention on exactly what bad boy Les Anderson (Corey Haim) hasn’t got. He failed his driving test, but that doesn’t […]

Oct, 19

Crime of Passion *** (1957, Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr, Fay Wray, Royal Dano, Robert Griffin, Dennis Cross) – Classic Movie Review 7615

Director Gerd Oswald’s 1957 film noir crime drama Crime of Passion stars Barbara Stanwyck as cop’s wife Kathy Ferguson Doyle, a sassy San Francisco newspaper advice columnist, who gives up her job and pulls out […]

Sep, 22

Liberty **** (1929, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Tom Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 7526

Writer-director Leo McCarey’s 1929 20-minute two-reeler black and white short film Liberty stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as escaped convicts from warden Tom Kennedy’s prison, having trouble with their stripey prison clothes during their […]

Sep, 01

Roman J Israel, Esq *** (2017, Denzel Washington, Colin Farrell, Carmen Ejogo) – Movie Review 

Oscar nominated Denzel Washington gives a slightly fussy, rather florid performance as autistic savant idealistic defense attorney Roman J Israel, Esq in writer-director Dan Gilroy’s low-key, slow-moving personal existential crisis drama. Roman has Asperger syndrome, a developmental […]

Feb, 03

Cinderfella ** (1960, Jerry Lewis, Ed Wynn, Judith Anderson, Henry Silva, Robert Hutton) – Classic Movie Review 5951

Writer-director Frank Tashlin’s 1960 sex-swap gender-bending fairy tale comedy stars Jerry Lewis as Cinderella as a fella. That’s the set-up and the plot has Cinderfella left at the mercy of his snobbish stepmother (Dame Judith Anderson) and […]

Aug, 21

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