Derek Winnert

Carry On Cleo **** (1964, Sidney James, Joan Sims, Amanda Barrie, Jim Dale, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor) – Classic Film Review 1133

In 1964, the Carry On team make one of their very best, most loved movies, hilariously spoofing Elizabeth Taylor’s film Cleopatra, using the sets they abandoned at Pinewood studios when filming moved to Cinecitta in […]

Apr, 21 · in Reviews

Carry On Screaming **** (1966, Harry H Corbett, Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Fenella Fielding, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Angela Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 1132

Carry On Screaming (1966) is one of everybody’s favourite Carry On films. Harry H Corbett dons a cape and deerstalker as Detective Sergeant Bung and Fenella Fielding delights as vamping vampire Valeria Watt (‘Do you […]

Apr, 21 · in Reviews

Carry On Follow That Camel *** (1967, Phil Silvers, Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Angela Douglas, Joan Sims, Charles Hawtrey, Peter Butterworth) – Classic Movie Review 1,131

In  the 14th Carry On film, released in 1967, Jim Dale makes quite a personable hero in the relatively straight part of English coward Bertram Oliphant ‘Bo’ West (ie parodying Beau Geste), who joins the French Foreign […]

Apr, 21

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix **** (2007, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Helena Bonham Carter, Imelda Staunton) – Classic Movie Review 1130

The 2007 fifth Harry Potter film, directed by David Yates and written by Michael Goldenberg, follows Harry’s fifth year at Hogwarts as the Ministry of Magic is in denial of Lord Voldemort’s return. It’s satisfyingly dark […]

Apr, 21

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire **** (2005, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Ralph Fiennes, Robert Pattinson, Jason Isaacs, Tom Felton, Robbie Coltrane) – Classic Movie Review 1,129

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) is one of the best in the series. The fourth Harry Potter film follows the young wizard’s fourth year at Hogwarts School as he is chosen by […]

Apr, 21

Carry On: Don’t Lose Your Head *** (1966, Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Dany Robin, Peter Butterworth, Peter Gilmore) – Classic Movie Review 1,128

English aristocrats Sir Rodney Ffing (Sidney James) and Lord Darcy Pue (Jim Dale) join the French Revolution, in the 1967 British Carry On comedy film Don’t Lose Your Head. ‘Carry On laughing until you have […]

Apr, 21

What Price Hollywood? **** (1932, Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 1127

Director George Cukor’s 1932 gleaming comedy treasure is a real vintage treat from the Thirties. It is based on a story by Adela Rogers St Johns, who came up with this idea first, but we […]

Apr, 20

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