Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

Forever Female *** (1953, Ginger Rogers, William Holden, Paul Douglas, James Gleason, Pat Crowley) – Classic Movie Review 9586

Sir James Barrie’s playlet Rosalind (among many works he had sold to Paramount 40 years earlier) is tidied up and expanded by the Epstein twins (Julius J Epstein and Philip G Epstein) into director Irving […]

Apr, 02

Black Widow *** (1951, Christine Norden, Robert Ayres, Jennifer Jayne) – Classic Movie Review 9,585

Hammer Films’ 1951 British thriller film Black Widow is a version of a BBC radio serial of the day, Lester Powell’s Return from Darkness, and stars Christine Norden, Robert Ayres and Jennifer Jayne. The 1951 […]

Apr, 01

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