Derek Winnert

The Black Scorpion ** (1957, Richard Denning, Mara Corday, Carlos Rivas) – Classic Movie Review 3,917

Every Horror You’ve Seen on the Screen Grows Pale Beside the horror of The Black Scorpion (1957). ‘Every Horror You’ve Seen on the Screen Grows Pale Beside the horror of The Black Scorpion!’ Director Edward […]

Jul, 02 · in Uncategorized

Summer Holiday ***½ (1963, Cliff Richard, Lauri Peters, Melvyn Hayes, Teddy Green, Jeremy Bulloch, Una Stubbs, The Shadows, Ron Moody, Lionel Murton, David Kossoff) – Classic Movie Review 3960

‘It’s the craziest Four-Way love affair that ever shook up the folks back home!’ Director Peter Yates’s 1963 traditional British wish-fulfilment fantasy musical Summer Holiday is a lively and engaging vehicle for the 22-year-old Cliff […]

Jul, 02 · in Reviews

Elvis & Nixon ***½ (2016, Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey, Alex Pettyfer, Colin Hanks) – Movie Review

Director Liza Johnson’s engaging and engrossing 2016 shaggy dog story is the previously untold true one of the peculiar meeting between Elvis Presley and US President Richard Nixon on the morning of 21 December 1970. Only in America! The screenplay by Joey Sagal, […]

Jul, 01

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie **½ (2016, Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley) – Movie Review

Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley belatedly hit the big screen as the horrific, monstrous London media stereotypes Edina and Patsy, who are growing old disgracefully. They are the St Trinian’s older gals. Saunders writes the […]

Jul, 01

Deadly Advice ** (1994, Jane Horrocks, Brenda Fricker, Imelda Staunton, Jonathan Pryce) – Classic Movie Review 3959

Director Mandie Fletcher’s 1994 British black comedy is a sometimes funny but often uneasy experience, though it comes through with an excellent cast on good form. Jane Horrocks and Imelda Staunton give expert and amusingly oddball […]

Jul, 01

Zelig *** (1983, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow) – Classic Movie Review 3958

Writer-director Woody Allen’s 1983 comedy is a smartly conceived but clumsily developed and largely unfunny fictional spoof documentary, or mockumentary, about a human chameleon nobody called Leonard Zelig (Allen). Zelig becomes a celebrity through being able […]

Jul, 01

A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy **** (1982, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, José Ferrer, Julie Hagerty, Tony Roberts, Mary Steenburgen) – Classic Movie Review 3957

The light comedy of manners A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy finds writer-director Woody Allen in playful, lyrical mood in 1982, toasting one of his inspirations, Ingmar Bergman, and especially his film Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), […]

Jul, 01

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