Derek Winnert

The Rachel Papers *** (1989, Dexter Fletcher, Ione Skye, Jonathan Pryce, James Spader) – Classic Movie Review 9,513

The 1989 British romantic drama The Rachel Papers with Dexter Fletcher and Ione Skye is a reasonably attractive film version of Martin Amis’s funny, bawdy 1973 first novel. Writer-director Damian Harris’s 1989 British romantic drama […]

Mar, 16 · in Reviews

Rachel and the Stranger **** (1948, Loretta Young, William Holden, Robert Mitchum) – Classic Movie Review 9,512

The 1948 Western film Rachel and the Stranger stars Robert Mitchum as Indian scout Jim, who visits a backwoods cabin in the 1820s and falls for purchased bride Rachel (Loretta Young), whose jealous husband Big […]

Mar, 16 · in Reviews

Desperate Moment ** (1953, Dirk Bogarde, Mai Zetterling, Philip Friend, Albert Lieven) – Classic Movie Review 9511

Director Compton Bennett’s mostly creaky and feeble 1953 British black and white crime melodrama Desperate Moment largely wastes the bright talents of the young and beautiful Mai Zetterling and Dirk Bogarde. In Berlin after World […]

Mar, 15

Détective *** (1985, Claude Brasseur, Nathalie Baye, Johnny Hallyday, Laurent Terzieff, Aurelle Doazan, Jean-Pierre Léaud) – Classic Movie Review 9510

Jean-Luc Godard’s jokey, peculiar 1985 French thriller Détective about four groups of people meeting in a Paris grand hotel, where a murder was committed two years before, is, as expected, provocative, progressive and experimental. Godard […]

Mar, 15

A Bigger Splash **** (1973, David Hockney, Peter Schlesinger, Celia Birtwell) – Classic Movie Review 9509

Director Jack Hazan’s 1974 A Bigger Splash is a fascinating and insightful, though chaotically assembled semi-fictionalized documentary drama biopic on the life of the British painter David Hockney and the story behind one of his […]

Mar, 15

The Big Street **** (1942, Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Barton MacLane, Eugene Palette, Agnes Moorehead, Sam Levene) – Classic Movie Review 9,508

Lucille Ball considered the 1942 American RKO Radio Pictures drama film The Big Street her favourite. Director Irving Reis’s 1942 American RKO Radio Pictures drama film The Big Street stars Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Barton […]

Mar, 15

Great Balls of Fire! ** (1989, Dennis Quaid, Winona Ryder, Alec Baldwin, John Doe) – Classic Movie Review 9507

Goodness, gracious! It’s Dennis Quaid giving an amusing caricature of a performance as legendary Fifties rocker Jerry Lee Lewis, in the 1989 stylised comic-book biopic Great Balls of Fire!, which reunites Dennis Quaid with Jim […]

Mar, 15

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