Derek Winnert

Ladies in Retirement **** (1941, Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester, Isobel Elsom, Edith Barrett, Emma Dunn) – Classic Movie Review 4718

Isobel Elsom plays Mrs Leonora Fiske, a wealthy ex-actress, who lives at an isolated house in the East Anglia marshlands in the 1880s with just her younger housekeeper Ellen Creed (Ida Lupino). When Ellen’s two older, […]

Nov, 28 · in Uncategorized

The Kissing Bandit ** (1948, Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, J Carrol Naish) – Classic Movie Review 4717

Frank Sinatra stars as Ricardo, a Mexican bandit’s shy son from Boston, who wants to lead a quiet life back East, but whose family insist that he has to keep up his father’s renown for theft […]

Nov, 28 · in Reviews

Kissing Jessica Stein **½ (2001, Jennifer Westfeldt, Heather Juergensen, Tovah Feldshuh, Esther Wurmfeld, Scott Cohen) – Classic Movie Review 4716

A meeting with a lesbian (Heather Juergensen) via a personal ad causes an unlucky-in-love New Yorker, Jessica Stein (Jennifer Westfeldt), to question her sexuality. Jewish journalist Jessica Stein is searching for the perfect man when […]

Nov, 28

Zodiac **** (2007, Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr, Mark Ruffalo) – Classic Movie Review 4,715

Jake Gyllenhaal stars in the chilling 2007 thriller film Zodiac as real-life San Francisco newspaper cartoonist Robert Graysmith, who becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the 1970s Zodiac serial killer. Jake Gyllenhaal stars in […]

Nov, 28

Kissing a Fool ** (1998, David Schwimmer, Jason Lee, Mili Avital) – Classic Movie Review 4714

Friends star David Schwimmer goes through his usual Ross Gellar turn in director Doug Ellis’s pleasant, though rather iffily scripted (by James Frey) and predictable 1998 romantic comedy. Schwimmer stars as a young sports broadcaster […]

Nov, 28

Dick Barton – Special Agent ** (1948, Don Stannard, George Ford, Gillian Maude, Jack Shaw, Geoffrey Wincott) – Classic Movie Review 4,713

Don Stannard stars as the popular special agent radio character in Hammer Films’ 1948 British black and white second feature thriller film Dick Barton, Special Agent. ‘It’s no use Betsy, I can’t stand it any […]

Nov, 28

You Were Never Lovelier **** (1942, Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou) – Classic Movie Review 4712

Director William A Seiter’s lovely and delightful 1942 Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth musical is the follow-up to their previous year’s hit musical You’ll Never Get Rich (1941). Adolphe Menjou co-stars as Eduardo Acuña, a rich Argentine hotelier […]

Nov, 27

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