Derek Winnert

Horse Feathers ***** (1932, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Zeppo Marx, Thelma Todd) – Classic Movie Review 3060

Director Norman Z McLeod’s classic 1932 comedy Horse Feathers is the Marx Brothers’ fourth movie and it is brilliant fast-paced, hilarious vintage fun, with the four siblings wreaking their usual havoc in a college setting. […]

Nov, 14 · in Reviews

The Four Feathers ***** (1939, John Clements, C Aubrey Smith, Ralph Richardson, June Duprez) – Classic Movie Review 3059

Director Zoltan Korda’s Technicolor 1939 British version of the much-filmed and well-loved novel The Four Feathers by A E W Mason is the business. This rousing adventure epic movie is the classic rendition of the […]

Nov, 14 · in Reviews

Foul Play **** (1978, Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase) – Classic Movie Review 3058

Writer-director Colin Higgins’s hilarious 1978 comedy thriller stars Goldie Hawn as a shy San Francisco librarian innocently embroiled in a plot to kill the Pope on a visit to the city and Chevy Chase as […]

Nov, 14

42nd Street ***** (1933, Warner Baxter, Ruby Keeler, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Una Merkel, Guy Kibbee, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers) – Classic Movie Review 3057

Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1933 movie virtually created, certainly established for all time the clichés of the backstage musical genre. Despite its great, venerable age, 42nd Street is still faster, funnier and brighter – and simply just […]

Nov, 14

Four Rooms * (1995, Tim Roth, Bruce Willis, Quentin Tarantino, Jennifer Beals, Paul Calderon, Salma Hayek, Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Marisa Tomei) – Classic Movie Review 3056

Tim Roth plays an unlikely bellboy visiting the title’s four hotel rooms in this lacklustre 1995 portmanteau movie comedy, showing clearly why these kinds of films are out of fashion. Even good directors, it seems, […]

Nov, 14

Hallam Foe **** (2007, Jamie Bell, Sophia Myles, Claire Forlani, Ciarán Hinds, Maurice Roëves) – Classic Movie Review 3055

Co-writer/director David Mackenzie’s 2007 movie stars Jamie Bell as weird 17-year-old Hallam Foe, who can’t stop missing his mother after her overdose of sleeping pills and suicide drowning in a lake near their house in Edinburgh. […]

Nov, 13

Rise of the Footsoldier Part II **½ (2015, Ricci Harnett, Luke Mably) – Movie Review

In the sequel to the 2007 hit Rise of the Footsoldier, the continuing story of the life of English underworld figure Carlton Leach proves a bit of a tour de force for writer-director star Ricci […]

Nov, 13

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