Derek Winnert

The Hairdresser’s Husband [Le Mari de la Coiffeuse] ***** (1990, Jean Rochefort, Anna Galiena, Roland Bertin) – Classic Movie Review 9593

Co-writer/ director Patrice Leconte’s 1990 The Hairdresser’s Husband [Le Mari de la Coiffeuse] is a superb comedy-drama tale of male obsession, with a perfect role for the great Jean Rochefort as Antoine, who has loved […]

Apr, 04 · in Reviews

Riding High ** (1950, Bing Crosby, Coleen Gray, Charles Bickford) – Classic Movie Review 9592

Frank Capra tepidly remakes his 1934 Broadway Bill as a vehicle for Bing Crosby in the 1950 comedy Riding High. Crosby is reasonably animated as the cheerful chappie Dan Brooks who is trying to raise […]

Apr, 03 · in Reviews

Ridicule **** (1996, Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort, Fanny Ardant) – Classic Movie Review 9591

Director Patrice Leconte concocts an ingratiating and unusual French costume drama of sex, wit, intrigue and drainage at the court of King Louis XVI (Urbain Cancelier) in 1780, in his 1996 pleasure Ridicule. Charles Berling […]

Apr, 03

Kindergarten Cop *** (1990, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller, Pamela Reed) – Classic Movie Review 9590

Director Ivan Reitman’s grown-up family friendly 1990 comedy Kindergarten Cop stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, who goes soft as the tough veteran LAPD detective John Kimble sent undercover as a kiddies’ substitute kindergarten teacher at an elementary […]

Apr, 03

The Light at the Edge of the World *** (1971, Kirk Douglas, Yul Brynner, Samantha Eggar) – Classic Movie Review 9589

Director Kevin Billington’s 1971 pirate malarkey adventure The Light at the Edge of the World stars Kirk Douglas as a lighthouse keeper, Will Denton, who is locked in a battle royal with a ruthless pirate, […]

Apr, 02

The Last Time I Saw Archie ** (1961, Robert Mitchum, Jack Webb, Martha Hyer, France Nuyen) – Classic Movie Review 9588

Producer-director Jack Webb’s forgotten and neglected 1961 comedy The Last Time I Saw Archie stars Robert Mitchum as a real-life confidence trickster, Private Archie Hall, plying his trade at a US Forces base in the […]

Apr, 02

The Reckoning *** (1970, Nicol Williamson, Rachel Roberts, Ann Bell, Zena Walker, Paul Rogers) – Classic Movie Review 9587

Director Jack Gold’s 1970 drama The Reckoning stars Nicol Williamson, who powerhouses his way through an unlikeable role as Michael Marler, a working-class Liverpool Irishman who greedily makes his way as a successful businessman in […]

Apr, 02

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