Derek Winnert

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Us **** (2019, Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker) – Movie Review

Jordan Peele follows his surprise hit Get Out (2017) with another quirky hit horror movie, which has turned out to be an even bigger success. Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Shahadi Wright Joseph and Evan Alex […]

Mar, 28

Ben Is Back *** (2018, Julia Roberts, Lucas Hedges, Courtney B Vance, Kathryn Newton) – Movie Review

Lucas Hedges stars in Ben Is Back (2018) as the nice, charming yet troubled Ben Burns, an apparently cleaned-up, recovering drug addicted teenage boy who shows up unexpectedly at his family’s home on Christmas Eve. […]

Mar, 21

Pontiac Moon * (1994, Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Ryan Todd) – Classic Movie Review 8017

Director Peter Medak’s 1994 Pontiac Moon is a juvenile road comedy drama with unrealised pretensions that casts Ted Danson as absent-minded-professor Washington Bellamy, a dad who takes his young kid Andy (Ryan Todd) off in the […]

Jan, 15

Aparajito ***** (1956, Pinaki Sengupta, Smaran Ghosal, Karuna Bannerjee, Kanu Bannerjee, Kanu Bannerjee, Kamala Adhikari) – Classic Movie Review 7739

Writer-producer-director Satyajit Ray’s 1956 Indian masterpiece Aparajito [The Unvanquished] is the wonderfully touching middle episode in Ray’s majestic epic family drama the Apu trilogy, which takes the saga from the hero’s infancy of Pather Panchali […]

Nov, 02

Merrily We Live ***** (1938, Constance Bennett, Brian Aherne, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray) – Classic Movie Review 7205

Zany families were quite the thing in the Thirties. In My Man Godfrey (1936), a zany family hires a tramp to be a butler. But here in Merrily We Live (1938) a tramp (really a famous […]

Jun, 22

Come and Get It **** (1936, Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea, Frances Farmer, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 7159

Walter Brennan came and got the very first ever Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his role in directors Howard Hawks and William Wyler’s 1936 movie based on Edna Ferber’s famous novel of love and […]

Jun, 12

The Magnet **** (1950, Stephen Murray, Kay Walsh, James Fox, Meredith Edwards, Gladys Henson, Thora Hird, Wylie Watson) – Classic Movie Review 7081

Director Charles Frend’s 1950 British film is an unpretentious, amusing and well-observed Ealing Studios comedy about a naughty 11-year-old boy called Johnny Brent (William Fox, now James Fox), who lands in a lot of bother […]

May, 22

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