Derek Winnert

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Fast and Loose ** (1954, Stanley Holloway, Kay Kendall, Brian Reece) – Classic Movie Review 10,607

Director Gordon Parry’s 1954 British black and white comedy Fast and Loose is a rather slow and flabby remake of 1933’s A Cuckoo in the Nest about a newly married husband (Brian Reece) having to […]

Nov, 30

Night on Earth **½ (1991, Winona Ryder, Gena Rowlands, Giancarlo Esposito, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Béatrice Dalle, Isaach De Bankolé, Rosie Perez, Roberto Benigni, Paolo Bonacelli, Matti Pellonpää) – Classic Movie Review 10,462)

The promising 1991 anthology comedy drama Night on Earth offers five taxi-driver stories set in different cities from writer/ producer/ director Jim Jarmusch, but not one of them adds up to a fully satisfying trip. […]

Oct, 26

Leave ‘Em Laughing **** (1928, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlie Hall) – Classic Movie Review 8551

‘What’s worse than an aching tooth at three in the morning. Two of them.’ There is much good-natured mirth when Stan Laurel goes to the dentist’s surgery, with predictable results when he and his mate […]

Jun, 04

Sonatine ***** (1993, Takeshi Kitano, Aya Kokumai, Tetsu Watanabe) – Classic Movie Review 6528

In his masterwork so far, Japanese writer-director-star Takeshi Kitano plays Aniki Murakawa, a world-weary Tokyo mobster whose boss orders him to Okinawa to resolve a dispute with a rival Yakuza gang. This is a masterly, […]

Jan, 06

Vamp *** (1986, Chris Makepeace, Sandy Baron, Robert Rusler, Dedee Pfeiffer, Gedde Watanabe, Grace Jones, Billy Drago) – Classic Movie Review 6520

Writer-director Richard Wenk’s 1986 contemporary vampire tale adds lashings of gory humour to a fair quota of chills. Chris Makepeace and Robert Rusler star as college kids who go to a bar and hire a […]

Jan, 04

London After Midnight (1927, Lon Chaney Sr, Marceline Day, Conrad Nagel, Henry B Walthall, Percy Williams, Polly Moran) – Classic Movie Review 6356

Director Tod Browning’s reputedly engaging and rousing 1927 famed silent vampire chiller stars Lon Chaney Sr as Scotland Yard inspector Professor Edward C Burke, who terrifies lovely young Miss Smithson (Polly Moran), the new maid, while […]

Dec, 04

Back to the Beach ** (1987, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Lori Loughlin, Paul Reubens, Tommy Hinckley, Don Adams, Bob Denver) – Classic Movie Review 6219

‘Fasten your seat belts and get ready for a totally NEW WAVE motion picture experience.’ The iconic Sixties stars Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon and Connie Stevens find useful film work in director Lyndall Hobbs’s kitsch […]

Nov, 09

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