Derek Winnert

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Much Ado About Nothing *** (1993, Kenneth Branagh, Richard Briers, Michael Keaton, Robert Sean Leonard, Keanu Reeves, Emma Thompson, Denzel Washington, Kate Beckinsale) – Classic Movie Review 10,317

Writer-director Kenneth Branagh again brings William Shakespeare to mainstream audiences with his 1993 hit adaptation of hit Much Ado About Nothing. It is a very jovial romp through Shakespeare’s attractive lightweight romance, filmed with much […]

Sep, 17

Romeo and Juliet [Giulietta e Romeo] * (1954, Laurence Harvey, Susan Shentall, Flora Robson, Mervyn Johns , Bill Travers) – Classic Movie Review 10,315

Writer-director Renato Castellani’s 1954 UK/Italy film Romeo and Juliet [Giulietta e Romeo] stars Laurence Harvey and Susan Shentall as William Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers. Shakespeare’s play is adapted for the screen by Castellani. After a shaky […]

Sep, 16

The Assisi Underground ** (1985, Ben Cross, James Mason, Irene Papas) – Classic Movie Review 10,263

Writer-director Alexander Ramati’s 1985 The Assisi Underground is a well-meaning, costly, but largely ineptly told wartime adventure about Catholic monks in Assisi (Perugia, Umbria, Italy) hiding Italian Jewish refugees from the Nazis in 1943 and […]

Sep, 04

The Devil’s Brigade ** (1968, William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards, Andrew Prine, Claude Akins) – Classic Movie Review 10,136

Director Andrew V McLaglen’s 1968 The Devil’s Brigade is an ordinary and overlong but acceptable World War Two wartime action drama in the wake of The Dirty Dozen, though based on real life as recounted […]

Aug, 05

Conspiracy of Hearts *** (1960, Lilli Palmer, Sylvia Syms, Yvonne Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 10,118

‘Mother of God: I’ve killed a nun!’ Catholic nuns hide refugee Jewish children from the Nazis in World War Two wartime northern Italy, then risk their lives to help them escape to Palestine, in the […]

Aug, 01

Casanova’s Big Night *** (1954, Bob Hope, Joan Fontaine, Audrey Dalton, Vincent Price, Basil Rathbone, Hugh Marlowe, John Carradine, Raymond Burr, Lon Chaney Jr) – Classic Movie Review 9846

Director Norman Z McLeod’s 1954 comedy Casanova’s Big Night stars Bob Hope, who is on tip-top form in his accustomed persona of cowardly braggard, in this case a tailor’s apprentice, Pippo Popolino, pretending to be […]

May, 31

Only You **** (1994, Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey Jr, Bonnie Hunt, Billy Zane, Joaquim de Almeida, Fisher Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 9766

‘The important thing is true love.’ Mmm… quite. Director Norman Jewison’s utterly sweet 1994 old-style romantic comedy Only You sets out to prove its own adage as hopeless romantic Faith Corvatch (Marisa Tomei) sets off […]

May, 14

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