Derek Winnert

Romance in Manhattan *** (1935, Francis Lederer, Ginger Rogers, Arthur Hohl) – Classic Movie Review 6959

Director Stephen Roberts’s 1935 comedy/romance film is the Green Card of its day in its story that has a hapless foreigner, Karel Novak (Francis Lederer), a naive Czech immigrant, who arrives at Ellis Island in New […]

Apr, 23 · in Reviews

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society *** (2018, Lily James, Michiel Huisman, Matthew Goode, Penelope Wilton) – Movie Review

Despite its faults, Mike Newell’s picturesque period romantic drama, set in the aftermath of World War Two, is compelling and its accompanying mystery is intriguing. It comes from the producers of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, […]

Apr, 23 · in Reviews

Revolution * (1985, Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland, Nastassja Kinski) – Classic Movie Review 6958

Director Hugh Hudson’s costly and ambitious but doomed 1985 historical drama Revolution proved a disaster for the British director, who misguidedly examines what it was like to be swept up in the American War of […]

Apr, 22

Rollover *** (1981, Jane Fonda, Kris Kristofferson, Hume Cronyn, Josef Sommer, Bob Gunton, Jodi Long) – Classic Movie Review 6,957

Jane Fonda stars in the intelligent, upmarket 1981 romantic mystery thriller film Rollover, her third film for director Alan J Pakula, after her Oscar-winning Klute and Comes a Horseman.  Jane Fonda stars in the 1981 […]

Apr, 22

The Romantic Englishwoman ** (1975, Glenda Jackson, Michael Caine, Helmut Berger, Béatrice Romand, Nathalie Delon, Michel Lonsdale, Kate Nelligan) – Classic Movie Review 6,956

Joseph Losey’s acidic 1975 comedy drama film The Romantic Englishwoman stars Glenda Jackson as the Romantic Englishwoman, Elizabeth, who meets enigmatic German stranger Thomas (Helmut Berger) on vacation in Baden Baden, where they have an […]

Apr, 22

Romper Stomper ** (1992, Russell Crowe, Daniel Pollock, Jacqueline McKenzie) – Classic Movie Review 6955

Writer-director Geoffrey Wright’s pacy, noisy and unrestrained 1992 Australian film looks at the social forces that bring about a tribe of neo-Nazi skinheads who are enraged how their neighbourhood is changing and battle rival Vietnamese […]

Apr, 22

Clownhouse ** (1989, Nathan Forrest Winters, Brian McHugh, Sam Rockwell) – Classic Movie Review 6954

Writer-director Victor Salva’s first feature Clownhouse is a creepy 1989 American slasher horror film with a fairly high body count. Nathan Forrest Winters, Brian McHugh and Sam Rockwell (in his film debut) play Casey and his older brothers Geoffrey […]

Apr, 22

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