Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Blessed Boys [La Santa Piccola] *** (2021, Vincenzo Antonucci, Francesco Pellegrino, Gianfelice Imparato) – Classic Movie Review 12,601

Vincenzo Antonucci and Francesco Pellegrino star as best friends Mario and Lino, living a poor but pleasant life in Naples. Lino has a crazy mother and a sister who is being hailed a little saint. […]

Aug, 04 · in Reviews

La Course du lièvre à travers les champs […and Hope to Die] *** (1972, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Robert Ryan, Lea Massari, Aldo Ray, Jean Gaven, Tisa Farrow) – Classic Movie Review 12,600

Director René Clément’s fair, often compelling, but muddled 1972 international thriller And Hope to Die [La course du lièvre à travers les champs] stars Jean-Louis Trintignant as Antoine Cardot aka Froggy, a French crook on […]

Aug, 02 · in Reviews

Pee-wee’s Big Adventure *** (1985, Paul Reubens) – Classic Movie Review 12,599

The American actor Paul Reubens, who came to fame in the 1980s as children’s TV star Pee-wee Herman, had a 1985 movie hit with Tim Burton’s Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. Painted, baby-faced child-like man Pee-wee Herman […]

Jul, 31

Big Top Pee-wee ** (1988, Pee-wee Herman, Penelope Ann Miller, Kris Kristofferson, Valeria Golino, Susan Tyrrell) – Classic Movie Review 12,598

In the 1988 comedy film Big Top Pee-wee’s storyline, Pee-wee Herman soon gets obsessed with the circus – and, understandably, especially its sizzling Italian trapeze artiste (Valeria Golino). A travelling circus comes to stay on […]

Jul, 31

Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti [Fiasco in Milan] *** (1959, Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Claudia Cardinale) – Classic Movie Review 12,597

The eager-to-please 1959 Italian comedy crime film Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti [Fiasco in Milan] stars Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori and Claudia Cardinale. This time a Milan thief engages the usual gang of robbers to […]

Jul, 29

A Matter of Choice ** (1963, Anthony Steel, Jeanne Moody, Ballard Berkeley, Malcolm Gerard, Michael Davis) – Classic Movie Review 12,596

The implausible though engaging enough 1963 low-budget British noir drama film A Matter of Choice stars Anthony Steel and Jeanne Moody. Director Vernon Sewell said: ‘Oh it was a disaster… a bloody awful movie.’ Director […]

Jul, 28

Jungle Street [Jungle Street Girls] ** (1960, David McCallum, Kenneth Cope, Jill Ireland, Brian Weske) – Classic Movie Review 12,595

‘They ignited the spark that exploded in murder and sin!’ Charles Saunders’s interesting 1960 black and white British crime drama Jungle Street [Jungle Street Girls] stars married couple David McCallum and Jill Ireland, plus Kenneth […]

Jul, 27

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