Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Magic"

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Miracle in Milan [Miracolo a Milano] **** (1951, Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Brunella Bovo, Guglielmo Barnabò) – Classic Movie Review 7711

Producer-director Vittorio De Sica’s warmhearted 1951 Italian classic Miracle in Milan [Miracolo a Milano] is a fairy tale about an angelic young orphan called Totò (Francesco Golisano) who arrives in a poor community outside Milan where […]

Oct, 28

The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter *** (1990, Jonathan Brandis, Kenny Morrison, Clarissa Burt) – Classic Movie Review 7164

Germany’s Bavaria Studios are back in business in 1990’s The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter trying to recapture the magic of their first outing to the land of Fantasia Six years on from the […]

Jun, 14

Rough Magic ** (1995, Bridget Fonda, Russell Crowe, Jim Broadbent) – Classic Movie Review 6847

Co-writer/ director Clare Peploe’s odd 1995 comedy film reworking of a vintage 1944 thriller novel by expert James Hadley Chase called Miss Shumway Waves a Wand is an extremely well crafted, interesting movie but a bit of […]

Mar, 24

Bedknobs and Broomsticks **** (1971, Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roy Snart, Cindy O’Callaghan, Sam Jaffe, Roddy McDowall, Bruce Forsyth, Reginald Owen, Tessie O’Shea) – Classic Movie Review 5936

Angela Lansbury stars as a cuddly amateur witch called Eglantine Price, who takes three World War Two evacuated kids on a magic bedstead and battles the Nazis in director Robert Stevenson’s delightful 1971 Disney fantasy […]

Aug, 19

The Love Witch ***½ (2016, Samantha Robinson, Laura Waddell, Gian Keys, Robert Seeley, Jeffrey Vincent Parise) – Movie Review

The  visually stylish 2016 horror comedy The Love Witch is funny throughout its epic two hours, and maybe just a little bit creepy and scary too, certainly plenty weird. It is perhaps a tiny bit too […]

Jan, 13

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them **** (2016, Eddie Redmayne, Dan Fogler, Colin Farrell, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Jon Voight, Ezra Miller) – Movie Review

And so J.K. Rowling invites you to a new era of the wizarding world in the first film of a new five-film franchise, a very easy-to-like spinoff prequel to Harry Potter, set in 1926. It marks […]

Nov, 17

Doctor Strange ***½ (2016, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rachel McAdams, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tilda Swinton, Mads Mikkelsen, Benedict Wong) – Movie Review

There are only half a dozen main characters in Doctor Strange, which means we get to see an awful lot of them. This means rather too much of Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange, which he plays exactly like […]

Oct, 25

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