Derek Winnert

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The Princess Diaries 2: The Royal Engagement *** (2004, Anne Hathaway, Julie Andrews, Hector Elizondo, Callum Blue, Chris Pine) – Classic Movie Review 4062

Comedy and complications rule the day as most of the original cast and film-makers from the 2001 smash-hit The Princess Diaries return for director Garry Marshall’s sweet and amusing 2004 Disney romantic comedy sequel. The bright and […]

Jul, 21

The Electric Horseman *** (1979, Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Valerie Perrine, Willie Nelson, John Saxon, Allan Arbus, Wilford Brimley) – Classic Movie Review 4010

Director Sydney Pollack teams up with Robert Redford again in 1979 for an interesting, if weird mix of modern-day Western, media satire and populist romanticism. It teams Redford with Jane Fonda, his 1967 co-star in Barefoot in […]

Jul, 13

Hollywood Canteen **** (1944, Bette Davis, John Garfield, Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, Dane Clark, The Andrews Sisters) – Classic Movie Review 3882

Writer-director Delmer Daves’s 1944 World War Two morale-boosting musical and toast to the real-life Hollywood Canteen vastly entertains with its high spirits, good humour, good intentions, and high-quota camp and nostalgia value. As Bette Davis and […]

Jun, 19

Come on George! *** (1939, George Formby, Pat Kirkwood, Joss Ambler, Meriel Forbes, Cyril Raymond, Ronald Shiner) – Classic Movie Review 3821

Co-writer/director Anthony Kimmins’s vintage 1939 Ealing studios comedy boasts a particularly exuberant star turn from George Formby as an ice-cream seller who tames a dangerous race-horse, is engaged to look after him and rides him […]

Jun, 08

Broadway Melody of 1938 **** (1937, Robert Taylor, Sophie Tucker, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy, Judy Garland, Buddy Ebsen, Sid Silvers) – Classic Movie Review 3626

Director Roy Del Ruth’s toe-tapping 1937 musical brings Robert Taylor back as a young Broadway producer-impresario – it is exactly the same part but has different character name, Steve Raleigh – who again is urgently seeking […]

Apr, 27

Thoroughbreds Don’t Cry *** (1937, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Sophie Tucker, Frankie Darro, C Aubrey Smith) – Movie Review 3618

MGM’s fine young thoroughbreds Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland appear together for the first time in director Alfred E Green’s slight but pleasant 1937 tale with music, as horse-racing Timmie Donovan (Mickey) mixes with crooks and Judy […]

Apr, 26

The Missouri Breaks * (1976, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, Kathleen Lloyd, Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton) – Classic Movie Review 3531

The pairing of the two legendary stars Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson, under the eagle eye of the then hot director Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde), was greatly anticipated in 1976. But the camp over-acting […]

Apr, 05

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