Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Manhattan"

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A Rainy Day in New York ***½ (2019, Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning, Selena Gomez, Liev Schreiber, Jude Law, Diego Luna) – Movie Review

Woody Allen’s 48th film A Rainy Day in New York is lightweight, lighthearted, likeable and thoroughly amusing and quite charming. It is very sweetly acted by its three young principals – Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning […]

Jul, 16

Roseland **** (1977, Teresa Wright, Lou Jacobi, Don De Natale, Christopher Walken, Joan Copeland, Lilia Skala) – Classic Movie Review 9685

Director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant’s 1977 three-part drama Roseland is a subtle, quiet, poignant, slow-burning charmer. The story and screenplay are by their regular writing partner Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. The tales are The […]

Apr, 28

21 Bridges ** (2019, Chadwick Boseman, Sienna Miller, J K Simmons, Stephan James, Taylor Kitsch, Keith David) – Movie Review

Chadwick Boseman stars in director Brian Kirk’s run-of-the-mill crime thriller 21 Bridges as gun-happy NYPD detective Andre Davis, who leads the Manhattan manhunt for a pair of cop killer robbers (Stephan James, Taylor Kitsch), after […]

Dec, 01

Charlie Chan on Broadway *** (1937, Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Joan Marsh) – Classic Movie Review 9039

Director Eugene Forde’s 1937 mystery crime thriller Charlie Chan on Broadway stars Warner Oland as Chan, Keye Luke as Lee Chan, Joan Marsh as Joan Wendall, J Edward Bromberg as Murdock, Donald Woods as Speed […]

Oct, 31

Step Lively *** (1944, Frank Sinatra, George Murphy, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria DeHaven, Anne Jeffreys. Walter Slezak, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 6588

Director Tim Whelan’s 1944 RKO movie showcase for Frank Sinatra is a pleasingly enjoyable follow-up to Higher and Higher (1943), reuniting star and director. It an engaging musical remake of the Marx Brothers’ 1938 film […]

Jan, 21

Shadows **** (1959, Hugh Hurd, Leila Goldoni, Ben Carruthers, Anthony Ray, Dennis Sallas, Tom Allen, Rupert Crosse, David Jones) – Classic Movie Review 5754

A young orphaned African-American family battles to survive in Manhattan. Jazz player Hugh (Hugh Hurd) struggles to make a dollar or two singing in low bars; his sister Leila (Leila Goldoni) joins the phony art […]

Jul, 14

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit **** (1956, Gregory Peck, Fredric March, Jennifer Jones, Marisa Pavan, Lee J Cobb, Keenan Wynn, Gene Lockhart, Gigi Perreau) – Classic Movie Review 5207

Writer-director Nunnally Johnson’s thoughtful 1956 drama stars Gregory Peck as Tom Rath, who lives in Connecticut but commutes to work in Manhattan. He gets a higher paid, higher stress job with a big TV network and […]

Mar, 27

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