Derek Winnert

Cafe Society *** (1939, Madeleine Carroll, Fred MacMurray, Shirley Ross, Claude Gillingwater, Jessie Ralph, Allyn Joslyn) – Classic Movie Review 8961

Director Edward H Griffith’s amusing 1939 screwball romantic comedy Cafe Society stars Fred MacMurray, who is paired in the first of four films with luscious blonde Madeleine Carroll, who plays a headstrong member of wealthy […]

Oct, 03 · in Reviews

Let No Man Write My Epitaph * (1960, Burl Ives, Shelley Winters, James Darren, Jean Seberg, Ricardo Montalban, Ella Fitzgerald, Rodolfo Acosta, Philip Ober) – Classic Movie Review 8960

Director Philip Leacock’s disappointing 1960 drama sequel Let No Man Write My Epitaph is a rather sleazy, tatty and threadbare melodrama about Nick Romano Jr (James Darren), a tenement boy from Chicago’s wrong side of […]

Oct, 03 · in Reviews

Matthias et Maxime [Matthias & Maxime] **** (2019, Xavier Dolan, Gabriel D’Almeida Freitas, Harris Dickinson, Anne Dorval) – Movie Review

Gabriel D’Almeida Freitas and Xavier Dolan star as Matthias & Maxime, which finds writer-director Xavier Dolan in romantic mode, edgy, unconventional romantic mode perhaps, but definitely romantic mode. The French-Canadian film, mostly in French focuses […]

Oct, 02

The Laundromat *** (2019, Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas, Sharon Stone)

Director Steven Soderbergh’s 2019 real-life drama The Laundromat stars Meryl Streep as Ellen Martin, whose husband (James Cromwell) is killed along with 20 others in a vacation boat accident. This prompts her to begin investigating […]

Oct, 02

Lucky Lady * (1975, Liza Minnelli, Gene Hackman, Burt Reynolds, Michael Hordern, Geoffrey Lewis, Robby Benson, John Hillerman)

Director Stanley Donen’s 1975 musical comedy crime drama Lucky Lady is unlucky for everybody. It is a glossy, vastly costly but rather aimless and (at the box-office of the day) total flop romp about 1930s Prohibition […]

Oct, 02

Honky Tonk Freeway *** (1981, William Devane, Beau Bridges, Beverly D’Angelo, Teri Garr, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Howard Hesseman, Geraldine Page, George Dzundza, Joe Grifasi) – Classic Movie Review 8958

Director John Schlesinger’s nice and unruly 1981 film Honky Tonk Freeway is a zany, brash, attractive and cheerful ensemble comedy made in America by the British company EMI Films about the small town of Ticlaw […]

Oct, 01

Can’t Stop the Music ** (1980, Valerie Perrine, Steve Guttenberg, The Village People) – Classic Movie Review 8957

Can’t Stop the Music prompted John Wilson to create the Golden Raspberry (Razzie) Awards in 1980. It took the first Razzie award for Worst Picture, and also took Worst Screenplay. The late Seventies gay stereotypes […]

Oct, 01

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