Derek Winnert

The Thief Who Came to Dinner *** (1973, Ryan O’Neal, Jacqueline Bisset, Warren Oates, Jill Clayburgh, Charles Cioffi, Ned Beatty) – Classic Movie Review 9,450

The 1973 film The Thief Who Came to Dinner is an often sparkling caper thriller, with an on-form Ryan O’Neal as Webster McGee, a charming diamond thief playing cat and mouse with Warren Oates’s canny […]

Mar, 01 · in Reviews

Way Down East ***** (1920, Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Lowell Sherman) – Classic Movie Review 9449

Producer-director D W Griffith’s 1920 heart-tugging black and white silent romantic drama Way Down East stars Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess and Lowell Sherman, and is based on a play by Lottie Blair Parker and William […]

Mar, 01 · in Reviews

Weekend at Bernie’s II ** (1993, Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Silverman, Terry Kiser, Troy Byer, Barry Bostwick) – Classic Movie Review 9448

Writer-director Robert Klane’s unexpected 1993 sequel Weekend at Bernie’s II to the 1989 hit comedy Weekend at Bernie’s centres on the hunt for the deceased mobster Bernie Lomax’s cash. Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman return […]

Mar, 01

Wayne’s World 2 *** (1993, Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Christopher Walken, Tia Carrere, Chris Farley) Classic Movie Review 9447

Director Stephen Surjik’s 1993 comedy Wayne’s World 2 is a less raucous, more amiable and more accomplished sequel to the 1992 Wayne’s World, though also much less popular at the box office. This time the […]

Feb, 29
The Way West *** (1967, Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark, Lola Albright, Michael Witney, Sally Field, Stubby Kaye, Jack Elam) – Classic Movie Review 9,446

The Way West *** (1967, Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark, Lola Albright, Michael Witney, Sally Field, Stubby Kaye, Jack Elam) – Classic Movie Review 9,446

The  1967 Western film The Way West stars Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum and Richard Widmark, who make the most of this panoramic saga of a wagon train’s trek to Oregon in the 1840s through Native […]

Feb, 29

Night Mail ***** (1936, documentary) – Classic Movie Review 9445

Directors Harry Watt and Basil Wright 1936 Night Mail is the stirring and beautiful classic 1930s British documentary short, turning into poetry the apparently mundane subject of the special overnight mail train journey from London to […]

Feb, 29

Waters of Time **** (1951, documentary) – Classic Movie Review 9444

Basil Wright and Bill Launder’s 1951 black and white documentary short Waters of Time is a highly proficient and splendidly visual 1951 Festival of Britain celebration of waters of the Thames under the control of […]

Feb, 29

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