Derek Winnert

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Smashing Time ** (1967, Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave, Michael York, Ian Carmichael, Anna Quayle, Irene Handl) – Classic Movie Review 8837

Director Desmond Davis’s 1967 slapstick British colour musical comedy film Smashing Time takes us back to 1967 when London’s Carnaby Street was the height of fashion. Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave star as plain Brenda and flamboyant Yvonne, […]

Aug, 17

Frankie and Johnny ** (1991, Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Hector Elizondo, Kate Nelligan, Nathan Lane) – Classic Movie Review 8829

Garry Marshall’s 1991 romantic comedy drama film Frankie and Johnny, is based on an excellent hit 1987 Broadway play by Terrence McNally, and stars miscast but engaging Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer. Director Garry Marshall’s […]

Aug, 14

Fried Green Tomatoes *** (1991, Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker) – Classic Movie Review 8268

Director Jon Avnet’s very nice and sweet 1991 nostalgic drama Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café [Fried Green Tomatoes] stars Kathy Bates as Evelyn Couch, a middle-aged glutton housewife who bumps into a jolly old […]

Mar, 19

Two Left Feet ** (1965, Michael Crawford, Nyree Dawn Porter, Julia Foster, David Hemmings) – Classic Movie Review 7,764

The 1963 British sex comedy drama film Two Left Feet stars the young Michael Crawford (aged 20) as Alan Crabbe, a lanky callow teenager trying to uncover the mysteries of sex by having a fling […]

Nov, 08

The Cakemaker **** (2017, Tim Kalkhof, Sarah Adler, Roy Miller, Zohar Shtrauss) – Movie Review 

Tim Kalkhof gives the warmest and most appealing of performances as Tomas, a gay German pastry maker working in a tasty cake shop and cafe in Berlin, where a married man Oren (Roy Miller) arrives and asks […]

Sep, 29

The Thing Called Love *** (1993, River Phoenix, Samantha Mathis, Dermot Mulroney, Sandra Bullock) – Classic Movie Review 4558

Director Peter Bogdanovich’s 1993 romantic comedy drama, with country music and a love triangle, is the 13th and last completed film of River Phoenix before his untimely death at the age of only 23. Phoenix plays […]

Oct, 29

Wonderland **** (1999, Shirley Henderson, Gina McKee, Molly Parker, Jack Shepherd, Kika Markham, Ian Hart, John Simm, Stuart Townsend) – Classic Movie Review 3046

Michael Winterbottom’s 1999 drama of working-class Londoners Bill (Jack Shepherd) and Eileen (Kika Markham) and their three lonely grown-up daughters is a typically intense, effective and  gloomy tale. They are cafe waitress Nadia, (Gina McKee ) […]

Nov, 09

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