Derek Winnert

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Step Up 3D * (2010, Rick Malambri, Adam G Sevani, Sharni Vinson, Alyson Stoner, Kathy Najimy) – Classic Movie Review 4638

Hey, guys, is this really the best you can do? Returning director Jon M Chu’s 2010 more or less totally unrelated Step Up second sequel, ‘based on characters’ from the 2006 and 2008 dance film hits, is […]

Nov, 12

Step Up 4: Miami Heat [Step Up Revolution] *** (2012, Kathryn McCormick, Ryan Guzman, Peter Gallagher, Cleopatra Coleman) – Classic Movie Review 4383

With its stupendous dancing and good spirits, but creaky everything else, director Scott Speer’s 2012 Step Up 4 is pleasant and welcome enough, even if it now has no relation to Channing Tatum’s original 2006 Step Up. Kathryn McCormick […]

Sep, 19

Blue Skies ***½ (1946, Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Joan Caulfield) – Classic Movie Review 4365

Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby both pursue Joan Caulfield in Paramount’s likeable, if run-of-the-mill 1946 Technicolor backstage musical Blue Skies, lifted up high by 22 Irving Berlin songs. Everyone who loves vintage musicals will be in […]

Sep, 14

Lola ***** (1961, Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Jacques Harden) – Classic Movie Review 4,303

Anouk Aimée gives an extraordinary performance as an alluring cabaret singer in debut director Jacques Demy’s 1961 French film delight Lola. The then inspired young French New Wave (Nouvelle Vague) director Jacques Demy’s 1961 debut is […]

Sep, 05

The Goodbye Girl **** (1977, Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings) – Classic Movie Review 4138

The likeable 1977 film The Goodbye Girl provides a great showcase for Richard Dreyfuss, who won the 1978 Best Actor Oscar as a struggling off-Broadway actor reluctantly forced to live with an unemployed divorced dancer […]

Aug, 07

All That Jazz ***** (1979, Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Ann Reinking, Leland Palmer, Ben Vereen, Cliff Gorman) – Classic Movie Review 4076

Co-writer/ director Bob Fosse’s stylish, partly autobiographical 1979 movie musical All That Jazz about a Broadway workaholic dance director called Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider) driving himself to death through overwork, as well as meanwhile overdosing […]

Jul, 24

Swamp Woman * (1941, Ann Corio, Jack La Rue, Mary Hull) – Classic Movie Review 3,980

‘She lived daringly, loved savagely’. The amusingly campy 1941 poverty row black and white thriller film Swamp Woman stars prominent burlesque striptease artist Ann Corio. Director Elmer Clifton’s 1941 black and white thriller film Swamp […]

Jul, 05

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