Derek Winnert

Go Now *** (1995, Robert Carlyle, Juliet Aubrey, James Nesbitt) – Classic Movie Review 9904

Director Michael Winterbottom’s 1995 character and issue driven drama Go Now is dour and downbeat but appealing and very conscientiously written and most credibly performed. Robert Carlyle stars as young Scots builder and footie player Nick […]

Jun, 13 · in Reviews

Go Naked in the World * (1961, Gina Lollobrigida, Anthony Franciosa, Ernest Borgnine) – Classic Movie Review 9903

Writer-director Ranald MacDougall’s 1961 film Go Naked in the World might have worked as a frothy comedy in the 1930s, but not as romantic drama in 1961, and the result is a leaden concoction with […]

Jun, 13 · in Reviews

Go Tell the Spartans **** (1978, Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson, Jonathan Goldsmith) – Classic Movie Review 9902

Director Ted Post’s 1978 war drama Go Tell the Spartans stars Burt Lancaster as Major Asa Barker, a top US military adviser, who is worrying about Vietnam back in 1964, and he has to save […]

Jun, 13

Marie Antoinette **** (1938, Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley) – Classic Movie Review 9901

Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1938 black and white historical film Marie Antoinette is a lavish, elaborate, years-in-the-making epic from the MGM studio, with Norma Shearer as the French queen Marie Antoinette, who becomes […]

Jun, 13

Spanish Fly (1976, Leslie Phillips, Terry-Thomas, Graham Armitage, Nadiuska, Frank Thornton, Sue Lloyd) – Classic Movie Review 9,900

The 1976 British sex comedy film Spanish Fly is lame, unfunny and vulgar, with a deft, expert cast of familiar farceurs (Leslie Phillips, Terry-Thomas) stranded in silly Spanish slapstick.  Director Bob Kellett’s 1976 film Spanish […]

Jun, 12

Born Reckless ** (1958, Mamie Van Doren, Jeff Richards, Arthur Hunnicutt, Carol Ohmart, Tom Duggan) – Classic Movie Review 9898

‘And Mamie rocks ’em with 7 red-hot reckless tunes!’ Director Howard W Koch’s 1959 Born Reckless stars Mamie Van Doren, Jeff Richards, Arthur Hunnicutt, Carol Ohmart, and Tom Duggan. Hunnicutt and Duggan play Cool Man and […]

Jun, 12

Easy to Love *** (1934, Genevieve Tobin, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Astor, Edward Everett Horton, Guy Kibbee, Patricia Ellis, Hugh Herbert) – Classic Movie Review 9897

Director William Keighley’s 1934 Warner Bros Pre-Code black and white film Easy to Love is an easy-going, skatty romantic comedy, in which a suspicious wife Carol (Genevieve Tobin) pretends that she is having an affair […]

Jun, 12

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