Derek Winnert

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Quality Street *** (1937, Katharine Hepburn, Franchot Tone, Fay Bainter, Eric Blore) – Classic Movie Review 3924

Katharine Hepburn and Franchot Tone star as the 1805 England-set movie’s two lovers, and the quality acting expected of them lights up director George Stevens’s 1937 romance, the second film of J M Barrie’s antique play, following director […]

Jun, 26

Easy A *** (2010, Emma Stone, Patricia Clarkson, Stanley Tucci, Thomas Haden Church, Amanda Bynes, Dan Byrd) – Classic Movie Review 3831

Likeable Emma Stone scores an easy A in director Will Gluck’s funny, enjoyable 2010 teen comedy as a nice high-school student who becomes notorious after fibbing about losing her virginity. She thinks she’s like Hester Prynne in The Scarlet […]

Jun, 09

Clockwise **** (1986, John Cleese, Alison Steadman, Geoffrey Palmer, Penelope Wilton) – Classic Movie Review 3787

John Cleese is on top manic form as a pompous British headmaster with a punctuality problem and anger management issues, in the funny 1986 British farce Clockwise, with an exceptional Brit cast including Alison Steadman, […]

May, 30

Let Me In **** (2010, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloë Grace Moretz, Elias Koteas, Richard Jenkins, Dylan Minnette) – Classic Movie Review 3783

Sparks fly when the boy from The Road (2009) meets the girl from Kick-Ass (2010). Kodi Smit-McPhee plays Owen, a lonely, dorky 12-year-old boy with a telescope, prying on the neighbours. Chloë Grace Moretz plays Abby, apparently […]

May, 29

Blood of Dracula [Blood Is My Heritage] * (1957, Sandra Harrison, Louise Lewis, Gail Ganley) – Classic Movie Review 3.699

Sandra Harrison stars as a schoolgirl who turns into a vampire under hypnosis, in Herbert L Strock’s 1957 horror movie Blood of Dracula. ‘She Will GIVE YOU Nightmares… FOR EVER!’ Director Herbert L Strock’s 1957 […]

May, 11

Superbad **** (2007, Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Emma Stone, Bill Hader, Seth Rogen) – Classic Movie Review 3663

Director Greg Mottola’s hilarious 2007 American teen bromance comedy stars Jonah Hill and Michael Cera as high school senior losers Seth and Evan, inseparable best friends who lament their pathetic sad virginity and terrible social standing during their last weeks of high […]

May, 06

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit ** (1993, Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimy, Maggie Smith, Barnard Hughes, James Coburn, Wendy Makkena, Michael Jeter) – Classic Movie Review 3558

Director Bill Duke’s quick 1993 sequel to the 1992 hit Sister Act betrays its hasty production in James Orr, Jim Cruickshank and Judi Ann Mason’s mediocre screenplay in this rickety vehicle for a likeable, amusing […]

Apr, 12

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