Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Love Hurts ** (1990, Jeff Daniels, Cynthia Sikes, Judith Ivey, John Mahoney, Cloris Leachman) – Classic Movie Review 7018

Director Bud Yorkin’s gentle and pleasant 1990 comedy about the vagaries of human relationships amuses enough, but it is lacking in sufficient sharpness and wit to engross fully. Jeff Daniels stars as ex-baseball-playing womanizer Paul Weaver who […]

May, 07 · in Reviews

Nanook of the North **** (1922, Allakariallak, Nyla, Cunayou, Allegoo) – Classic Movie Review 7017

Director Robert J Flaherty’s famous 1922 black and white silent film documentary about the hardships experienced by an Eskimo (Inuit) family living in the Arctic Circle is an admirable, enduring achievement, especially given the obvious problems […]

May, 07 · in Reviews

Napoleon ***** (1927, Albert Dieudonné, Vladimir Roudenko, Edmond Van Daële) – Classic Movie Review 7,016

Writer-director Abel Gance’s astonishing great French 1927 silent epic biopic of the young Napoleon Bonaparte (Albert Dieudonné), with a fine, powerful, commanding central performance and several outstanding sequences, is filmed with enormous style and energy for […]

May, 07

The National Health **** (1973, Jim Dale, Lynn Redgrave, Eleanor Bron) – Classic Movie Review 7015

Director Jack Gold’s 1973 wickedly funny British black comedy is based on Peter Nichols’s smashing hit play, attacking the deficiencies in The British National Health System, the failures of British socialism and the erosion of […]

May, 07

The Deadly Trap [La maison sous les arbres] ** (1971, Faye Dunaway, Frank Langella, Barbara Parkins) – Classic Movie Review 7014

Director René Clément’s 1971 thriller stars Faye Dunaway as Jill, an American in Paris, and Frank Langella as Philippe, her computer wiz boyfriend, who suddenly decides to quit his job. Jill is upset but then she […]

May, 07

Lady Godiva of Coventry ** (1955, Maureen O’Hara, George Nader, Victor McLaglen, Eduard Franz, Torin Thatcher, Robert Warwick, Rex Reason, Rhodes Reason) – Classic Movie Review 7013

Director Arthur Lubin’s 1955 historical adventure, or rather unhistorical adventure, is a poorly written, weakly played, blatantly inaccurate, boring biopic with Maureen O’Hara starring forlornly as the streaker-pioneer who rides nude through Coventry town, ignored by […]

May, 06

Ash Wednesday * (1973, Elizabeth Taylor, Henry Fonda, Helmut Berger, Keith Baxter) – Classic Movie Review 7,012

The 1973 mystery drama film Ash Wednesday is a hysterical farrago, with Elizabeth Taylor as a married woman in her 50s trying to make herself look young via gross plastic surgery in Italy, where she […]

May, 06

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