Derek Winnert

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Moffie ***** (2019, Kai Luke Brummer, Ryan de Villiers, Matthew Vey) – Movie Review

Oliver Hermanus’s beautiful yet brutal study of closeted homosexuality in the Apartheid-era military. Back in the bad old days of Apartheid and the early Eighties, Nicholas ‘Nick’ Van der Swart is a self-denying gay man […]

Oct, 09

The Amorous Prawn [The Amorous Mr Prawn] *** (1962, Dennis Price, Ian Carmichael, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Derek Nimmo, Liz Fraser, Robert Beatty, Finlay Currie) – Classic Movie Review 8790

Director Anthony Kimmins’s 1962 British comedy The Amorous Prawn has the huge advantage of entertaining people to perform it, and they make much of this film version of the director’s gently farcical stage hit. Joan […]

Aug, 03

Up in Arms *** (1944, Danny Kaye, Dana Andrews, Dinah Shore) – Classic Movie Review 8563

Director Elliott Nugent’s 1944 Up in Arms is a remake by The Samuel Goldwyn Company of Eddie Cantor’s 1930 hit Whoopee! this time starring Danny Kaye in his cinema feature film début (after four shorts […]

Jun, 07

The Stuff *** (1985, Michael Moriarty, Andrea Marcovicci, Paul Sorvino, Scott Bloom, Danny Aiello, Garrett Morris, Patrick O’Neal) – Classic Movie Review 8148

Writer/ director Larry Cohen’s 1985 fantasy comedy The Stuff is an amusing send-up of Fifties sci-fi horror pics, with the engaging, funny performances from a talented cast compensating for the rather uneven writing and apparently […]

Feb, 18

Return of the Living Dead: Part II * (1987, James Karen, Thom Mathews, Michael Kenworthy) – Classic Movie Review 7703

Writer-director Ken Widerhorn’s 1987 Return of the Living Dead: Part II brings back James Karen and Thom Mathews from the 1985 original The Return of the Living Dead as zombies return to feast on the living in this sequel […]

Oct, 25

Pack Up Your Troubles *** (1932, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Don Dillaway, Mary Carr, James Finlayson) – Classic Movie Review 7453

Directors George Marshall and Raymond McCarey’s 1932 feature-length comedy Pack Up Your Troubles stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, and is written for them by H M Walker. It is made for the Hal Roach […]

Aug, 17

Bonnie Scotland *** (1935, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, June Lang, James Finlayson, Daphne Pollard, William Janney) – Classic Movie Review 7385

Director James Horne’s Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy’s 1935 Hal Roach Studios comedy Bonnie Scotland is a below-par (for them) lampoon of British Empire adventure epics, redeemed by their performances, some good support turns, some appealing […]

Aug, 01

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