Derek Winnert

Love Among the Ruins *** (1975, Katharine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier, Colin Blakely) – Classic Movie Review 10,372

Director George Cukor’s lovely, prestigious, award-winning 1975 American made-for-TV Edwardian period romantic comedy film Love Among the Ruins stars Katharine Hepburn and Laurence Olivier, who light it up grandly. It premiered on the ABC TV […]

Oct, 01 · in Reviews

The Corn Is Green *** (1979, Katharine Hepburn, Ian Saynor, Bill Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 10,371

Katharine Hepburn stars in director George Cukor’s touching 1979 made-for-TV version of Emlyn Williams’s famous semi-autobiographical 1938 hit play The Corn Is Green (which originally starred Ethel Barrymore) about an 1890s Welsh unmarried teacher and […]

Oct, 01 · in Reviews

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

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

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

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