Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "J. M. Barrie"

Check out all of the posts tagged with "J. M. Barrie".

Pan *** (2015, Hugh Jackman, Levi Miller, Garrett Hedlund, Rooney Mara, Cara Delevingne, Amanda Seyfried, Paul Kaye, Kathy Burke) – Movie Review

Director Joe Wright’s prequel story of an English orphan boy who is spirited away to the magical Neverland, where he looks for his long-lost mother and finds both fun and danger, is brisk, pleasant and […]

Sep, 20

Hook ** (1991, Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Bob Hoskins, Julia Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 1421

Director Steven Spielberg’s 1991 family film is a long, lumbering and unwieldy, Disney-style version of J M Barrie’s Peter Pan fantasy tale. Unusually for a Spielberg movie, it lacks the magic spark it needs. Rather than making […]

Jul, 13

Peter Pan ***** (1953, Walt Disney) – Classic Movie Review 1416

Supervising directors Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi and Wilfred Jackson’s 1953 classic animated feature film based on Scottish novelist and playwright Sir James M Barrie’s play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up is one […]

Jul, 12

Finding Neverland **** (2004, Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie, Freddie Highmore, Radha Mitchell, Dustin Hoffman) – Classic Movie Review 124

Enter, stage left, Johnny Depp, with a short haircut and a lilting Scots brogue, as unhappily married playwright James M Barrie, whose latest play is a flop. Enter, stage right, Kate Winslet, as a posh […]

Aug, 03

Navigation

Please use the navigation to move within this section.