Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

The Bobo ** (1967, Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Rossano Brazzi) – Classic Movie Review 10,277

Director Robert Parrish’s 1967 The Bobo stars Peter Sellers, who teams with his second wife Britt Ekland in a very minor, deservedly long-forgotten comedy about an inept singing matador called Juan Bautista (Sellers) given three […]

Sep, 08

After the Fox [Caccia alla volpe] *** (1966, Peter Sellers, Victor Mature, Britt Ekland, Lydia Brazzi, Paola Stoppa, Akim Tamiroff, Martin Balsam) – Classic Movie Review 10,276

Director Vittorio De Sica’s 1966 comedy After the Fox [Caccia alla volpe] stars Peter Sellers in a jovial, harmless Neil Simon heist farce about a small-time conman criminal called Aldo Vanucci aka The Fox (Sellers) […]

Sep, 08

Roger & Me *** (1989, Michael Moore, Roger B Smith) – Classic Movie Review 10,275

The Me of the title is film-maker reporter Michael Moore whose satirical 1989 documentary feature Roger & Me [Roger and Me] trails Roger B Smith, chairman of General Motors, who cut 35,000 jobs when he closed […]

Sep, 08

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