Derek Winnert

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The Bond *** (1918, Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Albert Austin, Sydney Chaplin) – Classic Movie Review 12,149

Charlie Chaplin’s 1918 short film The Bond is a piece of history. It illustrates various bonds like friendship and marriage, but especially The Liberty Bond to K O the Kaiser, which Chaplin does literally.  Though […]

May, 30

Tucker: The Man and His Dream **** (1988, Jeff Bridges, Martin Landau, Joan Allen, Lloyd Bridges, Christian Slater, Dean Stockwell) – Classic Movie Review 4730

Director Francis Ford Coppola turns his 1988 biopic of maverick car designer Preston Tucker -and the story of how dream of building the revolutionary ‘car of tomorrow today’ was quashed by the auto giants of […]

Dec, 02

The Hudsucker Proxy **** (1994, Tim Robbins, Paul Newman, Jennifer Jason Leigh) – Classic Movie Review 1766

The Coen Brothers’ inspired 1994 satirical screwball comedy about big business and a corporate stock scam is a stunning-looking retro art object, with bravura visuals, witty dialogue, a great score by Carter Burwell and a […]

Oct, 13

Destination Moon **** (1950, John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, Dick Wesson) – Classic Movie Review 490

George Pal’s pioneering Destination Moon (1950) is renowned as one of the first sci-fi films to go for as high level of accurate technical detail as possible at the time. Visionary producer George Pal commendably […]

Dec, 09

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