Derek Winnert

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Cassandro ***½ (2023, Gael García Bernal, Roberta Colindrez, Mark Vasconcellos, Andrea Pazmino, Yavor Vesselinov) – Classic Movie Review 12,650

Gael García Bernal has winning ways in the feel-good 2023 biopic Cassandro as Saúl Armendáriz, a gay wrestler from El Paso, Texas, who rises to world stardom in the early 1980s after he creates the […]

Sep, 22

Chop Suey *** (2001, director Bruce Weber) – Classic Movie Review 11,660

Fashion photographer Bruce Weber’s arthouse documentary feature film Chop Suey, a quirky, trendy, picturesque kaleidoscopic portrait one of his models, the wrestler Peter Johnson, was released in 2001. It an album of still photos and […]

Oct, 18

Flesh ** (1932, Wallace Beery, Karen Morley, Ricardo Cortez, Jean Hersholt) – Classic Movie Review 11,575

Director John Ford’s 1932 MGM black and white drama Flesh stars Wallace Beery, Karen Morley, Ricardo Cortez and Jean Hersholt. The story is by Edmund Goulding, and the screenplay is by Leonard Praskins (adaptation), Edgar […]

Sep, 14

The Magic of Lassie *** (1978, James Stewart, Alice Faye, Mickey Rooney, Pernell Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 11,230

Director Don Chaffey’s 1978 The Magic of Lassie is a tuneful but tame musical reworking of the 1943 family favourite Lassie Come Home, with a story in which trade baron Jamison (Pernell Roberts) reclaiming Lassie […]

May, 22

Paradise Alley *** (1978, Sylvester Stallone, Lee Canalito, Armand Assante, Kevin Conway, Anne Archer, Joe Spinell, Tom Waits) – Classic Movie Review 10,646

The 1978 drama Paradise Alley in a naïve but agreeable yarn, written and directed by Sylvester Stallone with energy in his feature film directorial debut, about three Italian-American brothers in the 1940s who try to […]

Dec, 10

Man on the Flying Trapeze ***** (1935, W C Fields, Mary Brian, Kathleen Howard) – Classic Movie Review 9782

Director Clyde Bruckman’s 1935 comedy Man on the Flying Trapeze [The Memory Expert] is a hilariously funny W C Fields film from his best period, in which he stars as Ambrose Wolfinger, who rails against […]

May, 17

Swing Your Lady ** (1938, Humphrey Bogart, Frank McHugh, Louise Fazenda, Penny Singleton, Nat Pendleton, Allen Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 8003

Want to see Humphrey Bogart in a musical? Bogart stars in director Ray Enright’s 1938 Swing Your Lady as wrestling promoter Ed Hatch, who comes to the Ozarks and has a money-spinning idea: pit simple-minded […]

Jan, 12

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