Derek Winnert

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? *** (1966, James Coburn, Dick Shawn, Sergio Fantoni) – Classic Movie Review 10,284

Director Blake Edwards’s 1966 comedy What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? Is an amusing, lightly over-played satire about World War Two, as Lieutenant Christian (James Coburn) and Captain Cash (Dick Shawn) lead their […]

Sep, 09 · in Reviews

Ghoulies * (1984, Peter Liapis, Lisa Pelikan, Michael Des Barres, Jack Nance) – Classic Movie Review 10,283

Director Luca Bercovici’s 1984 film Ghoulies is a gruesome black comedy horror flick, in which Jonathan Graves (Peter Liapis) moves in with his girlfriend Rebecca (Lisa Pelikan) to an old tumbledown mansion, where he assumes […]

Sep, 09 · in Reviews

Rogue Trader **** (1999, Ewan McGregor, Anna Friel, Cristian Solimeno) – Classic Movie Review 10,282

Rogue Trader (1999) stars Ewan McGregor, who finds an excellent role and excels as ambitious real-life investment broker Nick Leeson, who breaks trading rules, covers up losses and eventually bankrupts the famous old British bank, […]

Sep, 09

Roger Dodger *** (2002, Campbell Scott, Jesse Eisenberg, Isabella Rossellini, Elizabeth Berkley, Jennifer Beals) – Classic Movie Review 10,281

Writer-director Dylan Kidd’s 2002 Canadian drama Roger Dodger stars Campbell Scott, who is first rate as Roger Swanson, a womanising smoothie who is rejected by his boss Joyce (Isabella Rosselini) and takes his teenaged nephew […]

Sep, 09

What a Carve Up! ** (1961, Sidney James, Kenneth Connor, Shirley Eaton, Dennis Price, Donald Pleasence, Michael Gough, Esma Cannon, Michael Gwynn) – Classic Movie Review 10,280

What a silly title! The Americans did not fancy What a Carve Up! and the 1961 horror comedy was released in the US as No Place Like Homicide! London West End farceur Ray Cooney (Run […]

Sep, 09

What a Way to Go! * (1964, Shirley MacLaine, Robert Cummings, Dick Van Dyke, Robert Mitchum, Gene Kelly, Dean Martin, Paul Newman) – Classic Movie Review 10,279

Director J Lee Thompson’s 1964 compendium black comedy What a Way to Go! stars Shirley MacLaine as a four-time widow. Witty Broadway authors Betty Comden and Adolph Green (Singin’ in the Rain) write the screenplay, based […]

Sep, 08

Woman Times Seven ** (1967, Shirley MacLaine, Alan Arkin, Rossano Brazzi, Michael Caine, Vittorio Gassman, Peter Sellers, Elspeth March) – Classic Movie Review 10,278

Shirley MacLaine tries her hand at playing seven roles in seven flimsy, sporadically entertaining sketches, tales of adultery, blandly directed by the prestigious Vittorio De Sica. Billed as a witty examination of female behaviour, Woman […]

Sep, 08

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