Derek Winnert

The Bliss of Mrs Blossom ** (1968, Shirley MacLaine, Richard Attenborough, James Booth) – Classic Movie Review 8816

Director Joseph McGrath’s daft, Swinging Sixties 1968 British crazy sex comedy The Bliss of Mrs Blossom stars Shirley MacLaine as Mrs Harriet Blossom, the blissful wife of a brassiere maker Robert Blossom (Richard Attenborough), keeping […]

Aug, 10 · in Reviews

The Lake House *** (2006, Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Christopher Plummer) – Classic Movie Review 8815

Keanu Reeves is back in romantic mood as Alex Wyler, a frustrated architect who once occupied an unusual Chicago area lakeside house in 2004, with Sandra Bullock as a lonely doctor, Dr Kate Forrester, who […]

Aug, 10 · in Reviews

Sweet November *** (1968, Sandy Dennis, Anthony Newley, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 8,814

The sweet 1968 romance film Sweet November stars Sandy Dennis as a kooky New Yorker who has a new boyfriend every month to pack as much into her doomed life as possible. Mr November is […]

Aug, 10

Dragon Seed ** (1944, Katharine Hepburn, Walter Huston, Turhan Bey, Aline MacMahon, Akim Tamiroff, Hurd Hatfield, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 8813

MGM’s 1944 propaganda drama film Dragon Seed is a failed bid to film the hit Pearl S Buck novel about the Chinese being forced to cope with Japanese invaders. It stars a miscast Katharine Hepburn, […]

Aug, 10

Les Triplettes de Belleville [The Triplets of Belleville] [Belleville Rendez-vous] (2003, voices of Michèle Caucheteux, Jean-Claude Donda, Michel Robin) – Classic Movie Review 8812

Writer-director Sylvain Chomet’s 2003 French animated gem Les Triplettes de Belleville [The Triplets of Belleville] [Belleville Rendez-vous], told with very little dialogue, is an impressively designed, highly imaginative and vibrant cartoon, packed with attractively eccentric, […]

Aug, 10

Bringing Down the House ** (2003, Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, Eugene Levy, Joan Plowright, Jean Smart, Betty White) – Classic Movie Review 8811

Director Adam Shankman’s 2003 Bringing Down the House stars Steve Martin, who enjoys his best role and biggest hit in ages as a stuffy tax lawyer, Peter Sanderson, who meets a lot of trouble after […]

Aug, 09

Belles on Their Toes *** (1952, Jeanne Crain, Myrna Loy, Debra Paget) – Classic Movie Review 8810

Director Henry Levin’s 1952 Belles on Their Toes is the too-sentimental but still amusing and appealing sequel to the sharper 1950 family comedy Cheaper by the Dozen. [Spoiler alert] There is no Clifton Webb this […]

Aug, 09

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