Derek Winnert

The Horseman on the Roof [Le Hussard sur le Toit] **** (1995, Olivier Martinez, Juliette Binoche, Pierre Arditi, François Cluzet, Jean Yanne) – Classic Movie Review 8006

The 1995 The Horseman on the Roof [Le Hussard sur le Toît] is another French historical winner from Jean-Paul Rappenau, director of the 1990 Cyrano de Bergerac. Olivier Martinez cuts a smashing dash as Angelo […]

Jan, 13 · in Reviews
Zotz! ** (1962, Tom Poston, Fred Clark, Jim Backus, Cecil Kellaway, Margaret Dumont, Mike Mazurki, Julia Meade) – Classic Movie Review 8005

Zotz! ** (1962, Tom Poston, Fred Clark, Jim Backus, Cecil Kellaway, Margaret Dumont, Mike Mazurki, Julia Meade) – Classic Movie Review 8005

Director William Castle’s soppy 1962 fantasy comedy chiller Zotz! is not one of his best movies, with only the slightest elements of horror and faint moments of humour breaking through from the gloom. Tom Poston […]

Jan, 13 · in Reviews

The Swinger ** (1966, Ann-Margret, Anthony Franciosa, Robert Coote, Horace McMahon, Yvonne Romain) – Classic Movie Review 8004

Ann-Margret stars in producer-director George Sidney’s Technicolor comedy The Swinger (1966) as Minnesota hick girl Kelly Olsen, who fakes sizzling memoirs to make a hit with magazine editors, particularly Ric Colby (Tony Franciosa) and Sir Hubert Charles […]

Jan, 12

Swing Your Lady ** (1938, Humphrey Bogart, Frank McHugh, Louise Fazenda, Penny Singleton, Nat Pendleton, Allen Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 8003

Want to see Humphrey Bogart in a musical? Bogart stars in director Ray Enright’s 1938 Swing Your Lady as wrestling promoter Ed Hatch, who comes to the Ozarks and has a money-spinning idea: pit simple-minded […]

Jan, 12

The Love Lottery ** (1954, David Niven, Peggy Cummins, Anne Vernon, Herbert Lom) – Classic Movie Review 8002

Director Charles Crichton’s 1953 The Love Lottery stars David Niven as adored Hollywood star film actor Rex Allerton – a babe magnet – who relocates to a remote Italian village where he is talked into being the […]

Jan, 12

The Divided Heart *** (1954, Cornell Borchers, Yvonne Mitchell, Armin Dahlen, Alexander Knox, Geoffrey Keen, Liam Redmond) – Classic Movie Review 8001

‘Wars leave behind a stain of shame which the centuries will not wash away,’ says the First Justice. Director Charles Crichton’s 1954 Ealing Studios and Michael Balcon Productions black and white drama The Divided Heart is […]

Jan, 12

The Upside ** (2017, Kevin Hart, Bryan Cranston, Nicole Kidman) – Movie Review

The Upside is a slightly uneasy and uncomfortable, but not unentertaining comedy drama, with awkward casting and a rough-hewn, sharp-edged script, which gets some laughs and a few tears, but loses out on the truthful […]

Jan, 12

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