Derek Winnert

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Nijinsky *** (1980, Alan Bates, George De La Pena, Leslie Browne) – Classic Movie Review 6027

Director Herbert Ross follows his hit 1977 dance movie The Turning Point with this sumptuously realised, passionately told, involvingly acted 1980 film version of the true-life gay love story of the tragic obsession of the choreographer […]

Sep, 15

Honey *** (2003, Jessica Alba, David Moscow, Mekhi Phifer) – Classic Movie Review 5651

Jessica Alba fresh from the 2000-2002 TV series Dark Angel is a peach as Honey Daniels, a sexy and feisty young dance instructor who starts a hip-hop class for ghetto kids. She is star spotted […]

Jun, 21

You’ll Never Get Rich *** (1941, Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Robert Benchley, John Hubbard, Osa Massen) – Classic Movie Review 4711

Director Sidney Lanfield’s 1941 show is a very big-budget musical from the Columbia studio that stars Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth in a ‘triumphant teaming of beauty and rhythm’, which, while hugely entertaining, never quite […]

Nov, 27

Smile **** (1975, Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon, Michael Kidd) – Classic Movie Review 4173

Producer-director Michael Ritchie casts a sharp, mocking and cynical eye on small-town American values in this incisive, extremely funny and enjoyable 1975 satirical comedy movie that offers a Nashville-style kaleidoscopic coverage of competitors and organisers at […]

Aug, 14

The Band Wagon ***** (1953, Fred Astaire, Jack Buchanan, Oscar Levant, Cyd Charisse, Nanette Fabray) – Classic Movie Review 3637

Fred Astaire, Jack Buchanan, Oscar Levant, Cyd Charisse and Nanette Fabray kick up a sensational storm in writers Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Alan Jay Lerner’s superlative MGM Technicolor backstage musical, directed in 1953 by […]

May, 01

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