Derek Winnert

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg **** (1972, Alan Bates, Janet Suzman, Peter Bowles, Sheila Gish, Joan Hickson, Murray Melvin) – Classic Movie Review 7977

Director Peter Medak’s 1972 A Day in the Death of Joe Egg is a distinguished, heartbreaking film of Peter Nichols’s stage black comedy about a married couple trying to come to terms with their helplessly disabled […]

Jan, 04 · in Reviews

Rumba ** (1935, George Raft, Carole Lombard, Lynne Overman, Margo, Monroe Owsley, Iris Adrian, Gail Patrick) – Classic Movie Review 7976

In a slightly limping follow-up to their previous year’s dance-themed romantic hit Bolero, George Raft and Carole Lombard re-team as a Cuban New York dancer, Joe Martin, and bored society heiress, Diana Harrison, who romance […]

Jan, 04 · in Reviews

Bolero *** (1934, George Raft, Carole Lombard, Sally Rand, William Frawley, Ray Milland, Frances Drake, Gertrude Michael) – Classic Movie Review 7975

Director Wesley Ruggles’s 1934 black and white Paramount Pictures romantic drama Bolero stars George Raft, who sparkles as a big-headed nightclub dancer, Raoul De Baere, who throws away his chance at love in favour of […]

Jan, 04

The Ruling Class **** (1972, Peter O’Toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe) – Classic Movie Review 7974

Director Peter Medak’s 1972 The Ruling Class is a superb British comedy with a superb British comedy cast that kicks into top gear a painstaking version of Peter Barnes’s offbeat play satirising the nation’s aristocracy, […]

Jan, 03

Welcome to Marwen **** (2018, Steve Carell, Leslie Mann, Merritt Wever, Falk Hentschel, Matt O’Leary) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Robert Zemeckis’s Welcome to Marwen follows the story of Mark Hogancamp (Steve Carell) who has been smashed up by five men and left for dead in a hate crime. They called him ‘queer’ […]

Jan, 03

Adventures of Don Juan ****(1948, Errol Flynn, Viveca Lindfors, Robert Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 7973

Director Vincent Sherman’s 1948 romantic action adventure Adventures of Don Juan, the Warner Bros studio’s final super-production for its waning star Errol Flynn, is a thrilling, splendidly good-humoured spectacular. Flynn is on top form as […]

Jan, 02

Love at First Bite **** (1979, George Hamilton, Susan Saint James, Richard Benjamin) – Classic Movie Review 7972

George Hamilton’s 1979 vampire spoof movie Love at First Bite is his best film in 20 years – an unexpectedly funny Dracula send-up, with Hamilton out for the Count as Vladimir Dracula in New York, […]

Jan, 02

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