Derek Winnert

Drop Dead Darling [Arrivederci, Baby!] * (1966, Tony Curtis, Rosanna Schiaffino, Lionel Jeffries, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Nancy Kwan, Fenella Fielding, Anna Quayle) – Classic Movie Review 6229

Tony Curtis plays Nick, literally, a ladykiller who weds ’em then kills ’em to his heart’s content to inherit from his rich widows until he meets his match in his latest wife, young Italian widowed […]

Nov, 11 · in Uncategorized

Promise Her Anything ** (1966, Warren Beatty, Leslie Caron, Robert Cummings, Hermione Gingold, Lionel Stander, Keenan Wynn) – Classic Movie Review 6228

Director Arthur Hiller’s airy-fairy British made 1966 comedy teams Warren Beatty with Leslie Caron, but has the wit to throw in a large number of stylish character actors to make it a bit tastier and […]

Nov, 11 · in Uncategorized

Mickey One *** (1965, Warren Beatty, Alexandra Stewart, Hurd Hatfield, Franchot Tone) – Classic Movie Review 6227

Warren Beatty stars as a club stand-up comic, who flees Detroit for Chicago to escape his involvement with the Mob, changing his identity to Mickey One after stealing the social security card of a homeless tramp. But he […]

Nov, 11

Kaleidoscope *** (1966, Warren Beatty, Susannah York, Clive Revill, Eric Porter, Murray Melvin) –  Classic Movie Review 6,226

Warren Beatty came to Swinging Sixties England to team up with English rose Susannah York for director Jack Smight’s breezy 1966 romantic caper comedy thriller film Kaleidoscope.  Warren Beatty came to Swinging Sixties England to […]

Nov, 11

The Florida Project ** (2017, Willem Dafoe, Brooklynn Prince, Bria Vinaite) – Movie Review

Willem Dafoe gives a knockout performance as the anxiety-ridden manager of a down-at-heel Florida motel in the environs of Disney World. Layered, textured and fascinating, it is certainly one of the best performances this always interesting […]

Nov, 11

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women *** (2017, Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall, Bella Heathcote, Oliver Platt) – Movie Review

The story of middle-aged married psychologist perverts and pioneers, Professor William and Elizabeth Marston, enjoying a three-way marriage with his student Olive Byrne (Bella Heathcote) is an interesting one, though writer-director Angela Robinson makes it seem less interesting […]

Nov, 10

Sextette * (1978, Mae West, Tony Curtis, Ringo Starr, Dom DeLuise, Timothy Dalton, George Hamilton, Alice Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 6225

Director Ken Hughes’s 1978 trainwreck of a film is the ludicrous final fling by an 85-year-old Mae West, acting out a story based on her own play about an ageing love goddess called Marlo Manners, […]

Nov, 10

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