Derek Winnert

Bank Shot *** (1974, George C Scott, Joanna Cassidy, Sorrell Booke, Clifton James, Bob Balaban) – Classic Movie Review 8853

Director Gower Champion’s 1974 comedy crime thriller Bank Shot stars George C Scott as Walter Ballantine, who leads a gang with a novel idea in bank heists – actually uprooting and driving away an entire […]

Aug, 22 · in Reviews

Pirates ** (1986, Walter Matthau, Cris Campion, Damien Thomas, Richard Pearson, Roy Kinnear, Ferdy Mayne, Charlotte Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 8852

Tess in 1979 was the final film directed by Roman Polanski for seven years until his 1986 swashbuckler pirate movie Pirates. Roman Polanski’s rollicking 1986 pirate romp Pirates boasts a jolly performance by Walter Matthau […]

Aug, 22 · in Reviews

That Uncertain Feeling *** (1941, Merle Oberon, Melvyn Douglas, Burgess Meredith) – Classic Movie Review 8,851

Ernst Lubitsch remakes his 1925 silent movie Kiss Me Again as the 1941 film That Uncertain Feeling, a daft but witty comedy about an insomniac wife (Merle Oberon), who gets psychosomatic hiccups and consults a […]

Aug, 21

Blinded by the Light *** (2019, Viveik Kalra, Kulvinder Ghir, Meera Ganatra) – Movie Review –

Director Gurinder Chadha’s Blinded by the Light is a good-natured, often amusing and affecting musical comedy drama, inspired by the words and music of Bruce Springsteen, and set in the dark days of Margaret Thatcher’s […]

Aug, 21

That’s Life! ** (1986, Jack Lemmon, Julie Andrews, Sally Kellerman) – Classic Movie Review 8850

Director Blake Edwards looks at his own life in his 1986 comedy drama That’s Life! and casts Jack Lemmon in the semi-autobiographical Edwards role of Harvey Fairchild, an affluent hypochondriac architect reaching his 60th birthday, […]

Aug, 21

Vincent, François, Paul and the Others **** [Vincent, François, Paul… et les autres] (1974, Yves Montand, Michel Piccoli, Serge Reggiani, Gérard Depardieu, Stéphane Audran) – Classic Movie Review 8849

Director Claude Sautet’s 1974 French drama Vincent, François, Paul and the Others [Vincent, François, Paul et les Autres] stars Yves Montand, Michel Piccoli and Serge Reggiani as Vincent, François and Paul, three longtime buddies who […]

Aug, 21

The Pink Panther Strikes Again **** (1976, Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Lesley-Anne Down) – Classic Movie Review 8848

Co-writer/ director Blake Edwards’s 1976 crime comedy sequel The Pink Panther Strikes Again brings Peter Sellers back once more as bumbling Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau, who helps Scotland Yard to find kidnapped scientist Dr Hugo […]

Aug, 20

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