Derek Winnert

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The Tender Trap *** (1955, Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, David Wayne, Celeste Holm, Carolyn Jones, Lola Albright, James Drury) – Classic Movie Review 4758

MGM’s witty 1955 comedy film The Tender Trap stars Frank Sinatra as a successful theatre agent who is trapped by a tender young actress (Debbie Reynolds). Director Charles Walters’s bubbly 1955 MGM comedy film The […]

Dec, 08

Seven Chances **** (1925, Buster Keaton, Ruth Dwyer, T Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards) – Classic Movie Review 4532

Producer/ director/ star Buster Keaton’s clever and hilarious, classic silent comedy showcases a stressed-out Buster as nearly bankrupt financial broker Jimmie Shannon, who has to find himself a spouse within a few hours to receive […]

Oct, 25

Has Anybody Seen My Gal? **** (1952, Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Charles Coburn, Lynn Bari, Gigi Perreau) – Classic Movie Review 3479

Director Douglas Sirk’s 1952 comedy features an irresistible star turn by wily performer Charles Coburn as Samuel Fulton, an old millionaire who tests the family of a woman, Harriet Blasidell (Lynn Bari), he once loved […]

Mar, 18

L’Avventura ***** (1960, Monica Vitti, Gabriele Ferzetti, Lea Massari) – Classic Movie Review 2839

Enigmatic beauty Monica Vitti stars gracefully in one of Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni’s most famous films, L’Avventura (1960). His screenplay with regular collaborator Tonino Guerra and Elio Bartolini focuses on the effect on a group […]

Aug, 22

Big Eyes ***½ (2014, Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz) – Movie Review

Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz are totally excellent as the real-life naïve painter Margaret Keane and her husband Walter in director Tim Burton’s admirable, loving biopic. The film’s thoroughly likeable and appealing without necessarily being an award-winner or […]

Dec, 18

Once Upon a Time in the Midlands *** (2002, Robert Carlyle, Rhys Ifans, Kathy Burke, Shirley Henderson, Ricky Tomlinson ) – Classic Movie Review 482

Robert Carlyle stars in Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002) as Jimmy, a Glasgow-based small-time crook who heads back for his Nottingham home town to try to win back his ex-girlfriend Shirley (Shirley […]

Dec, 07

Frozen **** (2013, voices of Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad) – Movie Review

Another year, another Walt Disney animation. After Wreck-It Ralph, they go back to basics with an old-fashioned fairy tale, a princess, a wicked queen, happy comedy relief, a quest, a threat, some danger, a warm-hearted message, […]

Dec, 06

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