Derek Winnert

A Guide for the Married Man *** (1967, Walter Matthau, Robert Morse, Inger Stevens, Sue Ane Langdon, Linda Harrison, Carl Reiner) – Classic Movie Review 7251

Director Gene Kelly’s 1967 bedroom farce A Guide for the Married Man assembles a whole army of familiar Sixties comedy faces to illustrate the dos and don’ts of marriage, and the pluses and minuses of unfaithfulness. Walter […]

Jul, 05 · in Reviews

Comfort and Joy *** (1984, Bill Paterson, Eleanor David, Clare Grogan, Alex Norton, Patrick Malahide, Rikki Fulton) – Classic Movie Review 7250

Writer-director Bill Forsyth’s 1984 Comfort and Joy is a sweet enough confection about an Italian ice-cream sellers’ feud in Glasgow, but its wafer-thin comedy offers only some smiles and a few laughs yet little joy. However, […]

Jul, 05 · in Reviews

Come to the Stable *** (1949, Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Elsa Lanchester, Thomas Gomez, Dooley Wilson, Regis Toomey) – Classic Movie Review 7249

Director Henry Koster’s 1949 true story comedy drama Come to the Stable stars Loretta Young and Celeste Holm as French nuns Sister Margaret and Sister Scholastica, who arrive and set out win the hearts and help of […]

Jul, 05

The Bravados **** (1958, Gregory Peck, Stephen Boyd, Joan Collins, Albert Salmi, Henry Silva) – Classic Movie Review 7248

Director Henry King’s 1958 revenge and redemption Western The Bravados stars Gregory Peck as grimly determined Jim Douglass, who sets out to find the escaped bad guys – four deadly in-laws – he thinks have […]

Jul, 05

Mother Is a Freshman ** (1949, Loretta Young, Van Johnson, Rudy Vallee, Barbara Lawrence, Betty Lynn, Robert Arthur) – Classic Movie Review 7247

Director Lloyd Bacon’s gently amusing 1948 20th Century Fox comedy Mother Is a Freshman stars Loretta Young as a widowed mother who gets a scholarship left to her in a will, and so she and […]

Jul, 04

Swimming with Men *** (2018, Rob Brydon, Rupert Graves, Jim Carter, Jane Horrocks, Charlotte Riley) – Movie Review

Swimming with Men is good natured and amusing, with a good idea and a nice, friendly cast. Liked it! Swimming with Men is hardly a great movie but it is good natured and amusing, with […]

Jul, 04

Whitney **** (2018, Whitney Houston, Bobbi Kristina Brown, Bobby Brown, Cissy Houston) – Movie Review

Loved it! Director Kevin Macdonald’s in-depth film Whitney is an extremely powerful and disturbing documentary telling the ultimately tragic story of chart-topping singer Whitney Houston, with marvellous archive footage and intimately revealing interviews. With access to the Houston […]

Jul, 04

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