Derek Winnert

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No Time for Comedy *** (1940, Rosalind Russell, James Stewart, Genevieve Tobin, Charles Ruggles) – Classic Movie Review 7951

Director William Keighley’s 1940 screwball romantic comedy No Time for Comedy stars James Stewart as comedy playwright Gay Esterbrook who scores a hit with his first Broadway play and then wants to write something heavyweight, […]

Dec, 28

Late Night Shopping ** (2001, James Lance, Luke de Woolfson, Kate Ashfield, Enzo Cilenti) – Classic Movie Review 6910

‘Let’s not go to work.’ Want to take a bite of this slice-of-life Glasgow-set comedy about the love lives of four mixed-up friends in dead-end jobs who hang out at an inner-city café? James Lance, […]

Apr, 11

The Man Who Invented Christmas * (2017, Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Pryce) – Movie Review

I’ve just opened my Time Out and I’m in shock. They gave The Man Who Invented Christmas FOUR STARS! So I’ve got to say it: ‘Bah, humbug!’ The Man Who Invented Christmas is a well meaning […]

Dec, 02

Dreyfus [The Dreyfus Case] *** (1931, Cedric Hardwicke, George Merritt, Charles Carson, Sam Livesey, Garry Marsh, Randle Ayrton, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 6142

Cedric Hardwicke stars as the real-life French-Jewish officer Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who is accused and convicted of spying in 1890s France, after German staff had forged evidence to convict him, ending up doing life on […]

Oct, 25

Mistress ** (1992, Robert Wuhl, Martin Landau, Danny Aiello, Robert De Niro, Eli Wallach) – Classic Movie Review 5787

Robert Wuhl stars as Marvin Landisman, a screenwriter-director whose old movie script is liked by a producer, Jack Roth (Martin Landau). But every potential financial backer (Danny Aiello, Robert De Niro and Eli Wallach) has a […]

Jul, 18

Throw Momma from the Train **** (1987, Danny DeVito, Billy Crystal, Anne Ramsey, Kim Greist, Kate Mulgrew, Annie Ross, Rob Reiner, Bruce Kirby) – Classic Movie Review 4935

Director/ star Danny DeVito’s gleefully entertaining 1987 directorial feature film debut is yet another raid on the work of Alfred Hitchcock. This time it is a bright and breezy black comedy about a student in […]

Jan, 25

Maybe Baby ** (2000, Hugh Laurie, Joely Richardson, Rowan Atkinson, Emma Thompson, Adrian Lester, James Purefoy, Tom Hollander, Joanna Lumley, Matthew Macfadyen) – Classic Movie Review 4877

Writer-director Ben Elton’s strained 2000 BBC Films comedy is based on his own novel Inconceivable and marks the funny stand-up comedian’s directorial debut. It stars Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson as Sam and Lucy Bell, […]

Jan, 11

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