Derek Winnert

Macaroni [Maccheroni] **** (1985, Jack Lemmon, Marcello Mastroianni, Daria Nicolodi) – Classic Movie Review 8796

Director Ettore Scola’s 1985 Macaroni [Maccheroni] is a subtle, well-cooked comedy-drama from Italy, with yummy performances from Jack Lemmon as Robert Traven, a grouchy American businessman back in Naples for the first time in four […]

Aug, 05 · in Reviews

Alex and the Gypsy ** (1976, Jack Lemmon, Geneviève Bujold, James Woods) – Classic Movie Review 8795

John Korty’s 1976 Alex and the Gypsy is an unusual, sentimental romantic drama, with the excellent stars stuck in unpersuasive roles but making the best of it. Jack Lemmon stars as Alex Main, a world-weary, […]

Aug, 05 · in Reviews

White Feather **** (1955, Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, John Lund, Debra Paget, Eduard Franz, Noah Beery Jr, Hugh O’Brian) – Classic Movie Review 8,794

The 1955 CinemaScope Technicolor Western film White Feather stars Robert Wagner as a US civilian army surveyor caught between greedy gold-diggers and the Cheyenne Indians who live on gold-rich land in 1877 Wyoming. Director Robert […]

Aug, 05

Arachnophobia **** (1990, Jeff Daniels, Julian Sands, John Goodman) – Classic Movie Review 8793

The 1990 ‘thrillomedy’ film Arachnophobia stars Jeff Daniels as a nice arachnophobic doctor, Julian Sands as a crazy scientist and John Goodman as a bug exterminator, who fight off an attack of killer spiders at […]

Aug, 05

…And God Created Woman [Et Dieu… Créa la Femme] *** (1956, Brigitte Bardot, Curd Jürgens, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Christian Marquand, Georges Poujouly) – Classic Movie Review 8,792

Brigitte Bardot became an overnight sensation as a voluptuous immoral teenager seducing men in Saint-Tropez, in Roger Vadim’s 1956 French film …And God Created Woman [Et Dieu… Créa la Femme]. And the 21-year-old Brigitte Bardot […]

Aug, 04

And Now for Something Completely Different **** (1971, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Carol Cleveland) – Classic Movie Review 8791

Thank goodness the Monty Python team got the chance to put some of the most famous sketches compiled from their BBC TV series Monty Python’s Flying Circus down on celluloid in Ian MacNaughton’s 1971 And […]

Aug, 04

The Amorous Prawn [The Amorous Mr Prawn] *** (1962, Dennis Price, Ian Carmichael, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Derek Nimmo, Liz Fraser, Robert Beatty, Finlay Currie) – Classic Movie Review 8790

Director Anthony Kimmins’s 1962 British comedy The Amorous Prawn has the huge advantage of entertaining people to perform it, and they make much of this film version of the director’s gently farcical stage hit. Joan […]

Aug, 03

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