Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "fish"

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Guest House Paradiso (1999, Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Bill Nighy, Kate Ashfield, Steven O’Donnell, Fenella Fielding, Vincent Cassel, Simon Pegg) – Classic Movie Review 7518

Director Adrian Edmondson’s debut feature, the appalling Guest House Paradiso (1999), is a nasty, witless, incredibly vulgar British slapstick black comedy that wastes so much top Nineties talent as well as the audience’s time and […]

Aug, 31

Monster on the Campus *** (1958, Arthur Franz, Joanna Moore, Whit Bissell, Joanna Moore, Troy Donahue, Judson Pratt, Nancy Walters) – Classic Movie Review 6270

This 1958 horror sci-fi shocker from director Jack Arnold, the maker of the 1957 classic The Incredible Shrinking Man, cannot perhaps attain the same excellent high standard of that one. But, even so, it is […]

Nov, 19

La Terra Trema **** (1948, Antonio Arcidiacono, voices of Luchino Visconti, Antonio Pietrangeli) – Classic Movie Review 5716

Director Luchino Visconti’s documentary-style 1948 neo-realist masterpiece is centred on the day-to-day working and living existence of a fisherman, ‘Ntoni Valastro (Antonio Arcidiacono), his family and the people from Aci Trezza, a small Sicilian village near Catania. It is […]

Jul, 05

Finding Dory **** (2016, voices of Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Ed O’Neill) – Movie Review

Pixar’s long-awaited sequel to its 2003 Finding Nemo plunges swimingly back into Nemo’s beautifully realised aquatic world with a delightful mix of the original favourite underwater characters and some delightful new characters, including octopus Hank (Ed O’Neill), […]

Jul, 26

Shark Tale *** (voice of Will Smith, Robert De Niro) – Classic Movie Review 1556

Will Smith voices Oscar, a young little fish working as a whale cleaner, in this pacey and amusing Oscar-nominated 2005 animated feature from DreamWorks Animation, the makers of Antz and Shrek. But Oscar is involved in the […]

Aug, 16

Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo *** (1999, Rob Schneider, Oded Fehr) – Classic Movie Review 1470

Director Mike Mitchell’s excellently silly, 1999 bad-taste farce stars Rob Schneider as a hapless fish-tank cleaner and pool attendant who house-sits when the owner, a greasy, angry, exotic-fish-loving male gigolo (Oded Fehr, hilarious), is away […]

Jul, 25

The Perfect Storm *** (2000, George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane, John C Reilly, William Fichtner) – Classic Movie Review 999

In the stirring, fact-based 2000 adventure drama film The Perfect Storm, set in New England in October 1991, a team of fisherman head off aboard the Andrea Gail on a stormy fishing trip into the […]

Mar, 26

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