Derek Winnert

The Water Babies **½ (1978, James Mason, Bernard Cribbins, Billie Whitelaw, Joan Greenwood, David Tomlinson, Tommy Pendler, Samantha Gates) – Classic Movie Review 10,370

The Charles Kingsley classic novel about the underwater adventures of a Victorian chimney-sweep 12-year-old boy called Tom (Tommy Pender) is filmed by the actor Lionel Jeffries as part live action, part animation. The young sweep […]

Sep, 30 · in Reviews

The Watchmaker of St Paul [L’Horloger de Saint-Paul] **** (1974, Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jacques Denis) – Classic Movie Review 10,369

Director Bertrand Tavernier’s extremely satisfying 1974 début French film The Watchmaker of St Paul [L’Horloger de Saint-Paul] [The Clockmaker of St Paul], which won the Special Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival in […]

Sep, 30 · in Reviews

Water ** (1985, Michael Caine, Valerie Perrine, Brenda Vaccaro, Leonard Rossiter, Billy Connolly, Maureen Lipman) – Classic Movie Review 10,368

Co-writer/ director Dick Clement’s 1985 British film Water is a feeble Ealing Studios-style comedy, with good players, perhaps encouraged by the thinness of the script, to be too generous with the scale of their performances. […]

Sep, 30

Waterloo **** (1970, Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles) – Classic Movie Review 10,367

Director Sergei Bondarchuk’s 1970 Italian-Russian co-produced historical epic Waterloo showcases fine acting from Rod Steiger as escaped Napoleon Bonaparte and Christopher Plummer as British general Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington. The two meet at Waterloo. […]

Sep, 30

White Chicks ** (2004, Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Jamie King, Frankie Faison, Lochlyn Munro, John Heard, Busy Philipps) – Classic Movie Review 10,366

Director Keenen Ivory Wayans’s 2004 crime comedy White Chicks stars Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans as disgraced FBI agents Kevin and Marcus Copeland, who go undercover as white chick debutantes Brittany and Tiffany Wilson, spoiled […]

Sep, 30

Too Outrageous! *** (1987, Craig Russell, Hollis McLaren) – Classic Movie Review 10,365

When the going gets tough, the tough get gorgeous!… An all-new drag-to-riches story…  Star Craig Russell’s 1987 Canadian comedy drama Too Outrageous! is his ten years’ later sequel to his super 1977 cult hit film […]

Sep, 29

Too Much, Too Soon *** (1958, Dorothy Malone, Errol Flynn, Efrem Zimbalist Jr) – Classic Movie Review 10,364

The 1958 biopic Too Much, Too Soon tells the tragic true story of actress Diana Barrymore (played by Dorothy Malone), who travels to Hollywood to look after her boozing actor dad John Barrymore (played by […]

Sep, 29

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