Derek Winnert

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Paper Planes *** (2014, Ed Oxenbould, Sam Worthington, Julian Dennison, David Wenham, Terry Norris, Deborah Mailman) – Movie Review

Co-writer/director Robert Connolly’s Aussie children’s film is sweet, charming, likeable, touching – and just plain darned nice. That’s a hard trick to pull off these days, and so is its story about a young Australian boy’s passion for flight […]

Oct, 22

Storm Center **** (1956, Bette Davis, Brian Keith, Kim Hunter, Kevin Coughlin, Paul Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 2745

Co-writer/director Daniel Taradash’s hesitant but important 1956 drama stars Bette Davis as widowed American small-town librarian Alicia Hull who is branded as a subversive and a Communist when she stands up to a campaign to […]

Jul, 27

Run all Night ***½ (2015, Liam Neeson, Ed Harris, Joel Kinnaman, Boyd Holbrook) – Movie Review

Cast as long-time New York mobster pals, Liam Neeson and Ed Harris bring style, conviction and huge acting talent to an otherwise fairly average chase-movie action thriller. They might be slumming it, but what a difference real […]

Mar, 11

Superman *** (1948, Kirk Alyn, Noel Neill, Tommy Bond, Pierre Watkin) – Classic Movie Review 2244

The Daily Planet’s meek newsman Clark Kent gets into baggy tights, turns into the flying mighty Man of Steel, Superman, and battles with the scary Spider Lady in directors Spencer Gordon Bennet and Thomas Carr’s […]

Mar, 07

The King and I * (1999, voices of Miranda Richardson, Martin Vidnovic, Christiane Noll, Ian Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 2194

Director Richard Rich’s misfiring 1999 animated feature is a disappointing, flatly cartoon version of the Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II all-time great 1951 stage and 1956 movie musical triumphs, based on Margaret Landon’s book […]

Feb, 21

Kramer vs. Kramer ***** (1979, Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander) – Classic Movie Review 2065

Writer-director Robert Benton hones this four-hankie, five-Oscar-winning tearjerker tale of a tug-of-love between workaholic advertising executive Ted Kramer (Dustin Hoffman) and ex-wife Joanna (Meryl Streep) over their seven-year-old son Billy (Justin Henry) into highly polished 1979 movie.  […]

Jan, 10

Return to Never Land ** (2002, Walt Disney) – Classic Movie Review 1419

Directed by Robin Budd and Donovan Cook in 2002, Return to Never Land is an all too ordinary, flatly animated and unimaginative animated fantasy comedy-drama sequel to Walt Disney’s classic 1953 cartoon Peter Pan. Though […]

Jul, 12

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