Derek Winnert

Tolkien *** (2019, Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Harry Gilby, Pam Ferris, Laura Donnelly, Colm Meaney) – Movie Review

Tolkien (2019) is a curate’s egg of a biographical drama film, with good scenes mixing uncomfortably with not such good ones. It stays interesting, though never fascinating, and this story of the young life of […]

May, 05 · in Uncategorized

There Once Was a Cop [Il Etait une Fois un Flic…] [Cops Is Cops] *** (1972, Michel Constantin, Mireille Darc, Michel Lonsdale, Daniel Ivernel, Alain Delon) – Classic Movie Review 8,435

Michel Constantin stars in director Georges Lautner’s edgy, tough 1972 French police crime thriller Il Etait une Fois un Flic… as a bachelor police commissioner called Campana, who must act like a married man with […]

May, 05 · in Reviews

Easy Down There! [Doucement les basses] [Take it Easy] ** (1971, Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, Paul Meurisse) – Classic Movie Review 8434

Husband and wife team (though by the time of this movie they were already divorced) Alain and Nathalie Delon star in director Jacques Deray’s rather disappointing 1971 attempt at a comedy Easy Down There! [Doucement […]

May, 05

Someone Is Bleeding [Les Seins de Glace] *** (1974, Alain Delon, Mireille Darc, Claude Brasseur, Nicoletta Machiavelli) – Classic Movie Review 8433

Alain Delon, Mireille Darc, Claude Brasseur and Nicoletta Machiavelli enliven Georges Lautner’s slightly eerie, spooky and unsettling 1974 French adaptation of the Richard Matheson novel Someone Is Bleeding about a strange married couple (Delon, Machiavelli) […]

May, 05

Shock Treatment [Traitement de Choc] [Doctor in the Nude] **** (1973, Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Robert Hirsch, Michel Duchaussoy) – Classic Movie Review 8432

Writer-director Alain Jessua’s classy, provocative allegorical 1973 French horror suspense thriller Shock Treatment [Traitement de Choc] is realised in assured performances by Alain Delon and Annie Girardot, and intelligent writing and suspenseful direction from Jessua. […]

May, 04

Sally in Our Alley **** (1931, Gracie Fields, Ian Hunter, Florence Desmond) – Classic Movie Review 8,431

The 1931 British romantic comedy drama film Sally in Our Alley is the first film of music hall star Gracie Fields, establishing her as a major UK film star. Director Maurice Elvey’s 1931 British romantic […]

May, 04

Shipyard Sally *** (1939, Gracie Fields, Sydney Howard, Morton Selten, Norma Varden) – Classic Movie Review 8430

Director Monty Banks’s lively 1939 British musical comedy Shipyard Sally stars Gracie Fields as failed music-hall singer Sally Fitzgerald, who takes charge of the saloon her father Major Fitzgerald (Sydney Howard) has bought near the John […]

May, 03

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