Derek Winnert

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Birds Do It * (1966, Soupy Sales, Tab Hunter, Arthur O’Connell, Edward Andrews, Doris Dowling, Beverly Adams) – Classic Movie Review 8337

Director Andrew Marton’s 1966 film Birds Do It is a silly, mostly mirthless comedy with Soupy Sales starring as Melvin Byrd, a nuclear plant’s caretaker ionised in error so he can fly across Florida and […]

Apr, 06

Where’s Poppa? **** (1970, George Segal, Ruth Gordon, Ron Leibman) – Classic Movie Review 7979

Director Carl Reiner’s wicked 1970 comedy Where’s Poppa? is a hilarious black farce, with marvellous comedy performances from the treasurable George Segal and Ruth Gordon as the Jewish attorney Gordon Hocheiser and his grotesque, crazy, […]

Jan, 04

Finding Fatimah *** (2017, Danny Ashok, Asmara Gabrielle, Nina Wadia) – Movie Review

Oz Arshad’s low-budget (£325,000) British Muslim dating romcom is warm and good hearted, and slickly made. Danny Ashok stars as Shahid, a stand-up comedian who struggles to find love in the Asian community because of the […]

Apr, 23

Robot & Frank **** (2012, Frank Langella, James Marsden, Liv Tyler, Susan Sarandon, Peter Sarsgaard) – Classic Movie Review 4790

Frank Langella is lovely as an old man whose son gives him a robot programmed to take care of him. Then the one-time catburglar jewel thief and his new robot butler caretaker (voice of Peter […]

Dec, 17

Dheepan **** (2015, Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers) – Movie Review

The startling 2015 feature film Dheepan from Jacques Audiard, the maker of A Prophet and Rust and Bone, is quite an eye-opener and an emotional ride, as well as a real impressive piece of film-making, winning the […]

Apr, 11

The Spider Woman Strikes Back *** (1946, Gale Sondergaard, Brenda Joyce, Rondo Hatton, Milburn Stone, Kirby Grant, Hobart Cavanaugh) – Classic Movie Review 3446

This 1946 in-name-only sequel film sees Gale Sondergaard re-creating her popular role from 1944’s The Spider Woman. But this horror thriller follow-up has no relation to the original, with Sondergaard playing a completely different character.  […]

Mar, 04

House on Haunted Hill *** (1958, Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long, Julie Mitchum, Alan Marshal, Carolyn Craig, Elisha Cook Jnr) – Classic Movie Review 1,090

William Castle’s fondly regarded 1958 black and white horror movie House on Haunted Hill stars Vincent Price as an eccentric millionaire who invites five people for a haunted house party. Whoever spends the whole night there […]

Apr, 13

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