Derek Winnert

Reviews

Immortal Sergeant ** (1943, Henry Fonda, Maureen O’Hara, Thomas Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 11,765

Director John M Stahl’s 1943 20th Century Fox. American black and white war film Immortal Sergeant stars Henry Fonda, Maureen O’Hara and Thomas Mitchell. Fonda is cast as a Canadian wartime soldier, Corporal Colin Spence, […]

Dec, 04

Happy Christmas [Joyeux Noël] *** (2005, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet, Diane Kruger, Gary Lewis, Alex Ferns, Daniel Brühl) – Classic Movie Review 11,764

‘Without an enemy there can be no war.’ Happy Christmas [Joyeux Noël] (2005) is the somewhat fictionalised, and very sentimental version of the story of the First World War Christmas ceasefire in the trenches, where […]

Dec, 03

The Happy Family ** (1952, Stanley Holloway, Kathleen Harrison, Naunton Wayne, George Cole) – Classic Movie Review 11,763

Director Muriel Box’s 1952 British comedy The Happy Family [Mr Lord Says No] Stanley Holloway, Kathleen Harrison, Naunton Wayne and George Cole, and a glorious old Brit cast. Producer-writer Sydney Box left Rank to go independent […]

Dec, 03

Happy Ever After [Tonight’s the Night] **** (1954, David Niven, Yvonne De Carlo, A E Matthews, Michael Shepley, George Cole, Barry Fitzgerald) – Classic Movie Review 11,762

The 1954 Technicolor comedy Happy Ever After finds a vintage British cast hamming it up as devious Irish country bumpkins who plot to get permanently rid of the nasty new local landowner (David Niven).  Director […]

Dec, 02

The Happy Hooker ** (1975, Lynn Redgrave, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Lovelady Powell, Nicholas Pryor, Elizabeth Wilson, Tom Poston, Conrad Janis, Mason Adams, Richard Lynch, George Dzundza, Vincent Schiavelli) – Classic Movie Review 11,761

Director Nicholas Sgarro’s 1975 American biographical comedy film The Happy Hooker is cleaned up as a vehicle for surprise choice Redgrave, who is fun but slumming as the Dutch secretary turned classy hooker Xaviera Hollander, but it […]

Dec, 02

Été 85 [Summer of 85] **** (2020, Félix Lefebvre, Benjamin Voisin, Philippine Velge, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) – Movie Review

François Ozon’s 2020 film Été 85 [Summer of 85] is a gay romantic drama, inevitably recalling Call Me by Your Name, but this time with a very French spin. Ozon turns a somewhat novelettish bitter-sweet […]

Dec, 02

Tick, Tick… Boom! [tick, tick… BOOM!] **** (2021, Andrew Garfield, Robin de Jesús, Alexandra Shipp, Joshua Henry, Vanessa Hudgens) – Movie Review

Lin-Manuel Miranda makes his exciting feature directorial debut in the 2021 American biographical musical drama film Tick, Tick… Boom!, based on the stage musical by Jonathan Larson. Andrew Garfield stars as Jonathan Larson, who in […]

Dec, 01

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