Derek Winnert

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Bliss **** (1985, Barry Otto, Lynette Curran, Helen Jones) – Classic Movie Review 8817

Director Ray Lawrence’s 1985 provocative Australian fantasy comedy drama Bliss is an Australian Film Institute Best Film/ Best Director/ Best Adapted Screenplay-winner about an adman who tries to shake himself to life again after the […]

Aug, 11

I Married a Woman ** (1958, George Gobel, Diana Dors, Adolphe Menjou) Classic Movie Review 8483

‘What happens to the MOUSE when the CHEESECAKE bites back?’ British sex symbol Diana Dors’s performance in Yield to the Night (1956) attracted interest in Hollywood and in May 1956 she signed a contract with […]

May, 19

How to Get Ahead in Advertising ** (1989, Richard E Grant, Rachel Ward, Richard Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 6559

Director Bruce Robinson again casts his Withnail & I (1987) star Richard E Grant, this time as Denis Dimbleby Bagley, an advertising executive who finds a stress-related boil on his neck that metamorphoses into his doppelgänger. […]

Jan, 14

Nothing in Common *** (1986, Tom Hanks, Jackie Gleason, Eva Marie Saint) – Classic Movie Review 6174

Director Gary Marshall’s interesting if slightly awkward 1986 movie stars Jackie Gleason in his last film before he died in 1987, along with Eva Marie Saint and Tom Hanks. Gleason plays a grumpy old dad […]

Nov, 01

The Arrangement ** (1969, Kirk Douglas, Faye Dunaway, Deborah Kerr) – Classic Movie Review 6168

Writer-director Elia Kazan’s really tedious 1969 think-in romantic drama movie comes from his period of sharp decline. And, try hard though they do, it is not among the distinguished stars’ most glorious moments. Kirk Douglas […]

Oct, 31

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? **** (1957, Jayne Mansfield, Tony Randall, Betsy Drake, Joan Blondell, John Williams, Henry Jones, Mickey Hargitay, Groucho Marx) – Classic Film Review 3248

Writer-producer-director Frank Tashlin follows up his 1956 success The Girl Can’t Help It that made a movie star of Jayne Mansfield by making a film of her concurrent stage success Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? in 1957 with Mansfield and […]

Jan, 08

Sweet November *** (2001, Keanu Reeves, Charlize Theron, Jason Isaacs) – Classic Movie Review 1573

Director Pat O’Connor’s 2001 movie tearfest Sweet November is an unexpected but welcome noughties updated remake of a long-forgotten 1968 romantic weepie, Sweet November. Keanu Reeves stars as Nelson Moss, a San Francisco workaholic executive […]

Aug, 21

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