Derek Winnert

Decline and Fall… of a Birdwatcher ** (1968, Robin Phillips, Genevieve Page, Donald Wolfit, Colin Blakely, Patience Collier Leo McKern, Kenneth Griffith, Rodney Bewes) – Classic Movie Review 6331

Director John Krish’s 1968 comedy is a dodgy, unstylish film of Evelyn Waugh’s masterwork satirical (partly autobiographical) novel, now unfortunately updated to the Swinging Sixties, hence is alternate title of Decline and Fall… of a […]

Nov, 29 · in Reviews

The Spaceman and King Arthur [Unidentified Flying Oddball] ** (1979, Dennis Dugan, Jim Dale, Ron Moody, Kenneth More, John le Mesurier, Rodney Bewes) – Classic Movie Review 6329

Director Russ Mayberry’s 1979 British-shot children’s film is a mild, harmless, quite amusing Walt Disney sci-fi comedy adventure reworking of Mark Twain’s novel A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court. Dennis Dugan stars as NASA […]

Nov, 28 · in Reviews

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie ***** (1976, Ben Gazzara, Timothy Carey, Seymour Cassel) – Classic Movie Review 6328

Writer-director John Cassavetes’s 1976 epic neo noir crime movie is another of his exciting part-improvised thrillers, propelled with a classic plot about gangster Mort Weil (Seymour Cassel)’s mobsters forcing a nightclub owner Cosmo Vittelli (Ben […]

Nov, 28

A Prize of Arms **** (1962, Stanley Baker, Tom Bell, Helmut Schmid, John Phillips, Anthony Bate) – Classic Movie Review 6,327

The gritty 1961 realist British noir crime thriller film A Prize of Arms stars Stanley Baker as a dismissed army captain who plots revenge on the army by planning a daring heist of their payroll […]

Nov, 27

Saint Jack **** (1979, Ben Gazzara, Denholm Elliott, James Villiers, Joss Ackland, Rodney Bewes) – Classic Movie Review 6326

Director Peter Bogdanovich’s 1979 cult movie adaptation of Paul Theroux’s 1973 novel Saint Jack is one of his best films for many years, made after a three-year hiatus following three flop movies in a row. Ben […]

Nov, 27

Happy Gilmore * (1996, Adam Sandler, Carl Weathers, Richard Kiel, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen) – Classic Movie Review 6325

Director Dennis Dugan’s popular but extremely annoying 1996 so-called ‘comedy’ finds Adam Sandler doing his goofy act as Happy Gilmore, a hopeless ice-hockey player who turns to golf with expected farcical results. The movie is […]

Nov, 27

Billy Madison * (1995, Adam Sandler, Darren McGavin, Bridgette Wilson, Bradley Whitford, Josh Mostel) – Classic Movie Review 6324

Adam Sandler’s early effort Billy Madison is a struggle to sit through. To inherit the wealth of his hotel chain boss dad (Darren McGavin), 27-year-old Billy Madison (Adam Sandler) has to go bad to school […]

Nov, 27

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