Derek Winnert

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Tokyo Story [Tôkyô monogatari] ***** (1953, Chishû Ryû, Chieko Higashiyama, Sô Yamamura) – Classic Movie Review 9669

The 1953 Japanese drama Tokyo Story [Tôkyô monogatari] is the glowing masterpiece that finally established the reputation of its director Yasujirô Ozu outside Japan. Quietly devastating, it is a moving and detailed study of the […]

Apr, 24

Andy Hardy’s Double Life *** (1942, Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Ann Rutherford, Esther Williams, Fay Holden) – Classic Movie Review 8350

Esther Williams makes her feature film debut at the MGM studio in Andy Hardy’s Double Life (1942) and gets her first screen kiss from Mickey Rooney. Director George B Seitz’s 1942 Andy Hardy’s Double Life […]

Apr, 10

Family Business *** (1989, Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman, Matthew Broderick) – Classic Movie Review 8031

Sean Connery has good fun with his role as an ageing small-time hoodlum, a career criminal called Jessie, in director Sidney Lumet’s excellent, well-plotted 1989 heist thriller Family Business. It is sharply directed by Lumet, […]

Jan, 18

Freaky Friday *** (2003, Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Mark Harmon) – Classic Movie Review 2864

The Walt Disney studio enjoyably remakes its fondly remembered 1976 hit and 1995 TV movie, generation-swap, with Lindsay Lohan starring as Anna Coleman, who magically exchanges her 13-year-old brain for her stressed-out single mom Tess Coleman (Jamie […]

Aug, 29

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