Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Michael Caine"

Check out all of the posts tagged with "Michael Caine".

The Wrong Box *** (1966, John Mills, Michael Caine, Nanette Newman, Ralph Richardson, Peter Sellers) – Classic Movie Review 1903

Julia Finsbury (Nanette Newman): ‘My father was a missionary. He was eaten by his Bible class.’ Producer-director Bryan Forbes’s unusual and likeable, delightfully daft 1966 British period screwball dark comedy is ‘suggested by’ Robert Louis Stevenson […]

Nov, 29

The Wrong Arm of the Law **** (1962, Peter Sellers, Lionel Jeffries, Davy Kaye, Bernard Cribbins, John le Mesurier, Dennis Price) – Classic Movie Review 1865

Director Cliff Owen’s vintage 1962 comedy stars Peter Sellers, who finds one of his most rewarding British parts as Pearly Gates, a criminal mastermind. This exuberant, delightful farce about bungling crooks in the London underworld […]

Nov, 22

Interstellar *** (2014, Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine) – Movie Review

Sometime soon, the Earth is on the brink of extinction through drought, famine and extreme climate changes. But a mysterious rip in the space-time continuum gives humans a chance to widen their lifespan. Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway lead a group of explorers […]

Nov, 06

Hannah and her Sisters ***** (1986, Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Michael Caine, Woody Allen, Barbara Hershey, Max von Sydow, Sam Waterston, Carrie Fisher) – Classic Movie Review 1796

Writer-director Woody Allen’s triple-Oscar-winning 1986 crowd-pleaser Hannah and her Sisters is one of his best and most enduring movies. Some even say it is his finest work. Allen’s then partner Mia Farrow stars as famous […]

Nov, 02

Quills **** (2000, Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine) – Classic Movie Review 1432

Director Philip Kaufman’s real-life period drama stars Geoffrey Rush, the 1997 Best Actor Oscar-winner for Shine. He relishes a great, lip-smacking turn as the infamous Marquis de Sade, the French writer, jailed in a Parisian lunatic […]

Jul, 16

The Man Who Would Be King ***** (1975, Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer) – Classic Film Review 1401

Co-writer/director John Huston’s great 1975 historical adventure unites Sean Connery (as Danny Dravot) with Michael Caine (as Peachy Carnehan), both of them perfectly cast as British army buddies who get elected as deities in 1880s […]

Jul, 07

A Bridge Too Far **** (1977, Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Elliott Gould, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Hardy Krüger, Laurence Olivier, Ryan O’Neal, Robert Redford, Maximilian Schell, Liv Ullmann) – Classic Movie Review 1.398

Director Richard Attenborough’s intelligent, well-meaning and honourable 1977 epic anti-war film A Bridge Too Far is rousingly staged on a huge canvas. It grasps the nettle of tackling the tricky subject of a military disaster, […]

Jul, 06

Navigation

Please use the navigation to move within this section.