Derek Winnert

Monterey Pop **** (1968, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Ravi Shankar) – Classic Movie Review 8701

It is time to get your love beads and purple velour pants for the 1968 classic rockumentary Monterey Pop by director D A Pennebaker of the legendary rock music festival concert (pre-dating Woodstock) that started […]

Jul, 13 · in Reviews

Antony and Cleopatra ** (1972, Charlton Heston, Hildegard Neil, Eric Porter, John Castle, Fernando Rey, Freddie Jones) – Classic Movie Review 8700

Director Charlton Heston’s 1972 Antony and Cleopatra gives Heston his chance to play Marc Antony in this school-play-type film version of the Shakespearean tragedy. Heston looks noble and is full of enthusiasm but is unsubtle […]

Jul, 12 · in Reviews

A Pair of Briefs ** (1962, Michael Craig, Mary Peach, Brenda de Banzie, James Robertson Justice, Roland Culver, Liz Fraser, Ron Moody) – Classic Movie Review 8699

Director Ralph Thomas’s 1962 A Pair of Briefs comes with an innuendo-laden title that is just about the funniest thing in this draggy and dated British black and white comedy about young battling barristers (Michael […]

Jul, 12

All Creatures Great and Small *** (1975, Simon Ward, Anthony Hopkins, Lisa Harrow, Freddie Jones) – Classic Movie Review 8698

Fans of the BBC TV series will be surprised to find All Creatures Great and Small has a different cast for the 1975 film version, with Simon Ward as nice young assistant vet James Herriot, […]

Jul, 12

Zulu Dawn ** (1979, Peter O’Toole, Burt Lancaster, John Mills, Simon Ward, Denholm Elliott, Michael Jayston, Ronald Pickup, Bob Hoskins, Ronald Lacey, Freddie Jones) – Classic Movie Review 8697

A fine cast is generally reliable if not particularly well used in director Douglas Hickox’s 1979 Zulu Dawn, a prequel to the 1964 Zulu, which focuses on the stubborn British commanders who lead their troops […]

Jul, 12

Freddy Got Fingered (2001, Tom Green, Rip Torn, Marisa Coughlan) – Classic Movie Review 8696

Co-writer/ director Tom Green’s 2001 comedy Freddy Got Fingered stars Tom Green as failing unemployed cartoonist Gord Brody, who is forced to move back home where he ends up weaving a web of lies designed […]

Jul, 11

Caravan * (1934, Charles Boyer, Loretta Young, Jean Parker) – Classic Movie Review 8695

Director Erik Charrell’s 1934 Caravan is a flop piece of musical romantic whimsy with a strained script and mediocre songs, and poor Charles Boyer struggling as Latzi, a Hungarian violinist trapped between Countess Wilma (Loretta […]

Jul, 11

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