Derek Winnert

Old Heidelberg **** (1927, Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer, Jean Hersholt) – Classic Movie Review 6883

Director Ernst Lubitsch’s 1927 Viennese fairy tale romantic movie is one of the great silent film classics. It stars Norma Shearer and Ramon Novarro. Lubitsch’s beautifully realised bitter-sweet love story is the tale of Austrian crown […]

Apr, 03 · in Uncategorized

Old Gringo ***½ (1989, Jane Fonda, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Smits) – Classic Movie Review 6882

Director Luis Puenzo’s 1989 historical romantic adventure drama stars Jane Fonda as Harriet Winslow, an American spinster who takes a job looking after the children of a wealthy family caught up in the revolution in […]

Apr, 03 · in Uncategorized

A Quiet Place ** (2018, Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe) – Movie Review

John Krasinski’s family-in-peril horror monster movie is smart, well made and meticulous, but rather slow and dull, and hardly ever at all scary, though it does have two or three good nail-biting scenes. Worst, with […]

Apr, 03

Bless This House *** (1972, Sidney James, Diana Coupland, Terry Scott, June Whitfield, Peter Butterworth, Sally Geeson, Robin Askwith, Bill Maynard) – Classic Movie Review 6881

Director Gerald Thomas’s 1972 British TV spin-off movie from the Thames Television series Bless This House provides a showcase for a treasure trove of British comedy greats, and is valuable and enjoyable for that. Bless […]

Apr, 03

Steptoe and Son Ride Again ** (1973, Wilfrid Brambell Harry H Corbett, Diana Dors, Milo O’Shea, Yootha Joyce, Neil McCarthy, Bill Maynard) – Classic Movie Review 6880

With the 1972 spin-off film Steptoe and Son of the BBC’s series such a profitable hit, EMI re-teamed the quarrelling father and son rag-and-bone junk yard men in director Peter Sykes’s 1973 sequel with a new […]

Apr, 03

Steptoe and Son *** (1972, Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H Corbett, Carolyn Seymour, Arthur Howard, Victor Maddern, Mike Reid, Barrie Ingham, Queenie Watts) – Classic Movie Review 6879

The TV stars Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett successfully re-create their delightful performances as Steptoe and Son and there is some funny writing from television creator-writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, re-working material they […]

Apr, 03

Mutiny on the Buses * (1972, Reg Varney, Doris Hare, Anna Karen, Michael Robbins, Bob Grant, Stephen Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 6878

Director Harry Booth’s saucy slice-of-life 1972 British comedy is the middle film in the 1969 to 1973 ITV show film spinoff series, following 1971’s On the Buses. It tries its best, and there are a few […]

Apr, 03

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