Derek Winnert

Smashing Time ** (1967, Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave, Michael York, Ian Carmichael, Anna Quayle, Irene Handl) – Classic Movie Review 8837

Director Desmond Davis’s 1967 slapstick British colour musical comedy film Smashing Time takes us back to 1967 when London’s Carnaby Street was the height of fashion. Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave star as plain Brenda and flamboyant Yvonne, […]

Aug, 17 · in Reviews

Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood ** (2019, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Al Pacino) – Movie Review

Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019) visits the final moments of Hollywood’s golden age in 1969 Los Angeles. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as tormented one-time TV cowboy series star Rick Dalton, […]

Aug, 17 · in Reviews

Good Boys * (2019, Jacob Tremblay, Keith L Williams, Brady Noon, Will Forte) – Movie Review

Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg’s 2019 comedy Good Boys exploits young actors Jacob Tremblay (as Max), Keith L Williams (as Lucas) and Brady Noon (as Thor), who are way too young to be involved in […]

Aug, 17

The Strange Affair *** (1968, Michael York, Jeremy Kemp, Jack Watson, George A Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 8,836

The 1968 British crime thriller film The Strange Affair stars Michael York, who has a strange role as a young policeman whose honesty is tested when he comes up against a corrupt superior (Jeremy Kemp), […]

Aug, 16

Death in the Garden [La mort en ce jardin] **** (1956, Simone Signoret, Georges Marchal, Charles Vanel, Michel Piccoli) – Classic Movie Review 8835

This Luis Buñuel rarity is a colourful adventure thriller set in Mexico, where a motley group of French people – a bad boy adventurer [Shark], a priest [Father Lizardi], a prostitute [Djin], an old diamond […]

Aug, 16

Something for Everyone [Black Flowers for the Bride] **** (1970, Angela Lansbury, Michael York, Anthony Higgins) – Classic Movie Review 8834

Director Harold Prince’s 1970 Something for Everyone [Black Flowers for the Bride] is an insidiously entertaining, mischievous black comedy with Michael York perfectly cast as Konrad Ludwig, the charming, handsome young trickster who cons his […]

Aug, 15

Song of Love *** (1947, Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Robert Walker) – Classic Movie Review 8833

MGM’s stagey but handsome 1947 romantic music drama film Song of Love stars Paul Henreid as the struggling composer Robert Schumann, Katharine Hepburn as his loving wife Clara Wieck Schumann, Robert Walker struggles as composer […]

Aug, 15

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