Derek Winnert

Sammy and Rosie Get Laid ** (1987, Shashi Kapoor, Claire Bloom, Frances Barber, Ayub Khan-Din, Roland Gift) – Classic Movie Review 11,231

Director Stephen Frears’s 1987 comedy drama Sammy and Rosie Get Laid stars Shashi Kapoor, Claire Bloom, Ayub Khan-Din, Frances Barber and Roland Gift. Thirty years on, former Indian government minister Rafi Rahman (Kapoor), returns for […]

May, 22 · in Uncategorized

The Magic of Lassie *** (1978, James Stewart, Alice Faye, Mickey Rooney, Pernell Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 11,230

Director Don Chaffey’s 1978 The Magic of Lassie is a tuneful but tame musical reworking of the 1943 family favourite Lassie Come Home, with a story in which trade baron Jamison (Pernell Roberts) reclaiming Lassie […]

May, 22 · in Uncategorized

The Brotherhood **** (1968, Kirk Douglas, Alex Cord, Irene Papas, Luther Adler, Susan Strasberg, Murray Hamilton, Eduardo Ciannelli, Joe De Santiis) – Classic Movie Review 11,229

Martin Ritt’s 1968 Technicolor Mafia crime thriller film The Brotherhood stars Kirk Douglas, Irene Papas, Alex Cord and Luther Adler.  Director Martin Ritt’s 1968 Technicolor Mafia crime thriller film The Brotherhood stars Kirk Douglas as Frank Ginetta, a […]

May, 22

The Woman in the Window ** (2021, Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Fred Hechinger, Anthony Mackie, Julianne Moore, Wyatt Russell, Tracy Letts) – Movie Review

The Woman in the Window (2021) stars the likeable and sympathetic Amy Adams, who lands a big fat star role as clinically depressed, pill-popping, wine-drinking, agoraphobic child psychologist Anna Fox, living alone in an eerie […]

May, 21

High Hopes **** (1988, Phil Davis, Ruth Sheen, Edna Doré, Heather Tobias, Philip Jackson, Lesley Manville, David Bamber, Jason Watkins) – Classic Movie Review 11,228

Writer-director Mike Leigh’s incisive 1988 satire on life in Eighties Britain, High Hopes, centres on three London comic couples: socialist Shirley (Ruth Sheen) and Cyril (Philip Davis), a bearded despatch rider and his tree-planting lover who […]

May, 21

Beethoven’s 2nd ** (1993, Charles Grodin, Bonnie Hunt, Nicholle Tom) – Classic Movie Review 11,227

Director Rod Daniel’s popular 1993 comedy sequel Beethoven’s 2nd is the rather weary, and fairly sickly second helping of the adventures of the mischievous St Bernard dog, belonging to the Newton family headed by dizzy […]

May, 21

Beethoven *** (1992, Charles Grodin, Bonnie Hunt, Dean Jones) – Classic Movie Review 11,226

Director Brian Levant’s 1992 comedy Beethoven stars Charles Grodin, Bonnie Hunt and Dean Jones. Two great big loveable fluffy things, Grodin and a giant St Bernard dog, make sweet music together as the odd couple […]

May, 20

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