Derek Winnert

The Owl and the Pussycat **** (1970, Barbra Streisand, George Segal, Robert Klein, Allen Garfield, Buck Henry) – Classic Movie Review 2,799

Barbra Streisand and George Segal are on their finest comic form in Herbert Ross’s hilarious 1970 romantic comedy film The Owl and the Pussycat. Barbra Streisand and George Segal are happily teamed and on their […]

Aug, 11 · in Uncategorized

Overnight Delivery *** (1998, Paul Rudd, Reese Witherspoon, Christine Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 2802

Director James Bloom’s amusing 1998 college romantic comedy is nicely cast, well played and rather sweet. Paul Rudd stars as freshman Wyatt Trips, who’s sworn to be faithful to his girlfriend Kim (Christine Taylor) 1,000 […]

Aug, 11 · in Uncategorized

Oxford Blues * (1984, Rob Lowe, Julian Sands, Michael Gough, Ally Sheedy, Amanda Pays, Gail Strickland, Alan Howard, Julian Firth, Cary Elwes) – So Bad It’s Good 14

Blues is right. The 1984 So Bad It’s Good movie Oxford Blues is likely to give you them. The young Rob Lowe is an unlikely Oxford student, but he is effectively slimy in a tweak […]

Aug, 11

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ** (2015, Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander, Hugh Grant, Jared Harris, Elizabeth Debicki) – Movie Review

UNCLE? My giddy aunt! Henry Cavill stars as CIA agent Napoleon Solo and Armie Hammer plays KGB operative Illya Kuryakin, who after a lot of fighting one another in early 1960s Berlin, end up working […]

Aug, 11

The Great St Trinian’s Train Robbery ** (1966, George Cole, Frankie Howerd, Dora Bryan, Reg Varney) – Classic Movie Review 2,798

In the 1966 fourth episode of the series, The Great St Trinian’s Train Robbery, the school for scandal St Trinian’s is providing the cover for great train robbers. George Cole appears one last time as Flash Harry, […]

Aug, 10

The Pure Hell of St Trinian’s *** (1960, Cecil Parker, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell, Thorley Walters, Dennis Price, Sidney James) – Classic Movie Review 2797

Co-writer/co-producer/director Frank Launder’s less entertaining 1961 number three in the comedy film franchise brings back the hellish schoolgirls from Ronald Searle’s St Trinian’s cartoons, who now torch their school and are recruited for an Arab’s harem. It […]

Aug, 10

The Pickwick Papers **** (1952, James Hayter, James Donald, Nigel Patrick, Donald Wolfit, Hermione Gingold, Kathleen Harrison, Alexander Gauge, Joyce Grenfell, Harry Fowler) – Classic Movie Review 2,796

Renown Pictures’ 1952 British historical comedy drama film The Pickwick Papers is based on Charles Dickens’s 1837 novel and stars James Hayter as Samuel Pickwick, along with a grand galaxy of Brit character actors of the era. Writer-director Noel Langley conscientiously […]

Aug, 09

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