Derek Winnert

Bartleby *** (1970, Paul Scofield, John McEnery, Thorley Walters) – Classic Movie Review 10,391

Co-writer/ director Anthony Friedman’s 1970 British drama Bartleby offers a rare opportunity to see Paul Scofield on film as The Accountant, the sympathetic boss of a young accounting clerk called Bartleby (John McEnery) who rebels against […]

Oct, 08 · in Reviews

Mrs Delafield Wants to Marry **½ (1986, Katharine Hepburn, Harold Gould, Bibi Besch) – Classic Movie Review 10,390

Venerable senior citizen Katharine Hepburn stars as Margaret Delafield, a wealthy WASP widow who astounds her family by announcing that she has fallen in love with her old Jewish doctor Dr Marvin Elias (Harold Gould), […]

Oct, 07 · in Reviews

Mr Sardonicus *** (1961, Ronald Lewis, Audrey Dalton, Guy Rolfe, Oscar Homolka, Vladimir Sokoloff) – Classic Movie Review 10,389

Showman producer-director William Castle’s 1961 horror mystery thriller Mr Sardonicus stars Ronald Lewis, Guy Rolfe, Audrey Dalton and Oscar Homolka, and is an effective and entertaining chiller in which a doctor gets a mysterious invitation […]

Oct, 07

Stray Dog **** (1949, Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Eiko Miyoshi) – Classic Movie Review 10,388

Director Akira Kurosawa’s 1949 Japanese black and white police procedural film Stray Dog [Nora Inu] is written by Akira Kurosawa and Ryûzô Kikushima, and stars Toshirô Mifune as Detective Murakami, Takashi Shimura as Chief Detective […]

Oct, 06

Baby Boom *** (1987, Diane Keaton, Sam Shepard, Harold Ramis) – Classic Movie Review 10,387

Charles Shyer’s 1987 comedy film Baby Boom stars Diane Keaton as a high-powered New York ad executive who finds herself saddled with a baby. Director Charles Shyer’s 1987 comedy Baby Boom stars Diane Keaton as J […]

Oct, 06

Hello Again ** (1987, Shelley Long, Judith Ivey, Gabriel Byrne, Corbin Bernsen, Sela Ward, Austin Pendleton) – Classic Movie Review 10,386

Director Frank Perry’s 1987 fantasy comedy drama Hello Again stars Shelley Long as housewife Lucy Chadman, who chokes to death on a chicken roll, but, one year later, is resurrected by her hippy medium sister, […]

Oct, 05

Irreconcilable Differences *** (1984, Ryan O’Neal, Shelley Long, Drew Barrymore) – Classic Movie Review 10,385

Director Charles Shyer’s 1984 Irreconcilable Differences is an attractive, sweet-and-sour romantic comedy, with Ryan O’Neal and Shelley Long playing Albert and Lucy, a self-centred Hollywood couple sued for divorce by their precocious 10-year-old daughter Casey […]

Oct, 05

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