Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

The Loves of a Blonde [Lásky jedné plavovlásky] [A Blonde in Love] **** (1965, Hana Brejchová, Vladimír Pucholt, Vladimír Mensík) – Classic Movie Review 6922

Co-writer/ director Milos Forman’s delightful, fresh and funny 1965 Oscar-nominated Czechoslovak witty comedy tells the story of a pretty young woman called Andula (Hana Brejchová), a shoe factory worker in her fading factory small town in […]

Apr, 15 · in Reviews

The Firemen’s Ball [Horí, má panenko] **** (1967, Jan Vostrcil, Josef Sebánek, Josef Valnoha) – Classic Movie Review 6921

Director Milos Forman’s amusing, closely observed 1967 Czech comedy, made in the style of a Czechoslovakian Jacques Tati but with sharp a political bite, centres on the arrangements for a small Czech provincial town’s annual […]

Apr, 15 · in Reviews

It Started in Naples *** (1960, Clark Gable, Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica) – Classic Movie Review 6920

The ageing Clark Gable announced that he was too old to play romantic leading roles and would be looking for different kinds of parts after But Not for Me (1959), but his next film is […]

Apr, 14

But Not for Me ** (1959, Clark Gable, Carroll Baker, Lilli Palmer, Lee J Cobb) – Classic Movie Review 6919

Director Walter Lang’s 1959 drama But Not For Me is a well crafted and nimbly acted but unsparkling vehicle for an ageing Clark Gable, uncomfortably cast as Russ Ward, a has-been Broadway producer of 30 […]

Apr, 14

Plunder of the Sun *** (1953, Glenn Ford, Diana Lynn, Patricia Medina, Francis L Sullivan, Sean McClory) – Classic Movie Review 6918

Long concealed ancient Aztec gold lures American insurance agent adventurer Al Colby (Glenn Ford) and his get-rich-quick treasure hunting company on a quest to old Mexico in director John Farrow’s tight, action-packed 1953 adventure film tale […]

Apr, 14

The Hellfire Club *** (1961, Keith Michell, Adrienne Corri, Peter Cushing, Peter Arne) – Classic Movie Review 6917

‘A body was the membership card in THE HELLFIRE CLUB.’ Robert S Baker and Monty Berman, the team behind a string of Sixties TV hits like The Saint, The Persuaders and Gideon’s Way, produced, directed […]

Apr, 14

Truth or Dare * (2018, Lucy Hale, Tyler Posey, Violett Beane, Sophia Ali, Landon Liboiron, Nolan Gerard Funk, Sam Lerner) – Movie Review

The truth is that the teen supernatural horror slasher flick movie Truth Or Dare is ridiculous, nonsensical, unconvincing and just no good. A dull and dreary group of American college students get together to play […]

Apr, 14

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