Derek Winnert

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FernGully: The Last Rainforest *** (1992, voices of Jonathan Ward, Samantha Mathis, Tim Curry, Christian Slater, Robin Williams) – Classic Movie Review 2660

Director Bill Kroyer’s commendably green 1992 Australian-American fantasy environmental film is a musical mix of animation and reality. It is set within the expanses of a great fictitious Australian rain-forest, whose magical fairy inhabitants fight to save their […]

Jul, 02

Pinocchio ***** (1940, voice Dickie Jones, Christian Rub, Evelyn Venable, Charles Judels, Walter Catlett) – Classic Movie Review 1407

Walt Disney’s second animated adventure feature film Pinocchio, based on Italian writer Carlo Collodi’s 1883 children’s novel The Adventures of Pinocchio (Le avventure di Pinocchio), is a double Oscar winner for its Best Original Score […]

Jul, 09

Maleficent *** (2014, Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley, Imelda Staunton, Lesley Manville, Juno Temple, Sam Riley, Brenton Thwaites, Kenneth Cranham) – Movie Review

Walt Disney remakes its 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty as a lively 3D live action adventure that’s aimed more at teens than tots who’d find it too scary. There’s nothing scarier in it than Angelina […]

May, 29

Sleeping Beauty **** (1959, voices of Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Barbara Luddy, Barbara Jo Allen) – Classic Movie Review 1249

Mary Costa provides the voice of the Princess Aurora in Walt Disney’s hugely imaginative and entertaining 1959 cartoon retelling of the classic French fairy tale La Belle au bois dormant (The Sleeping Beauty) by Charles […]

May, 25

Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy ** (2014, voices of Mae Whitman, Christina Hendricks, Tom Hiddleston) – Movie Review

Christina Hendricks provides the voice of naughty, misunderstood dust-keeper fairy Zarina, who steals Pixie Hollow’s vital Blue Pixie Dust and flies away to join forces with Captain James Hook (Tom Hiddleston) and the pirates of Skull […]

Feb, 12

Ella Enchanted *** (2004, Anne Hathaway, Hugh Dancy, Cary Elwes, Minnie Driver, Patrick Bergin, Joanna Lumley, Lucy Punch, Jennifer Higham) – Classic Movie Review 614

In 2004 Tommy O’Haver, the director of teen romcom hit Get Over It (2001), goes for a cute new spin on an old fairy-tale theme, based on an award winning bestselling young people’s novel by Gail […]

Jan, 03

Artificial Intelligence: AI ***** (2001, Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law) – Classic Movie Review 232

The Sixth Sense’s Haley Joel Osment (then 13) proves what a little superstar he is as a robot boy who just longs to be human in Steven Spielberg’s dazzling sci-fi film, made in 2001. In […]

Sep, 08

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