Derek Winnert

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The Jigsaw Man * (1983, Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier, Susan George, Robert Powell, Charles Gray) – Classic Movie Review 8494

Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier, the stars of the 1972 Sleuth, reunited for director Terence Young’s disastrously disappointing 1984 British double agent spy thriller The Jigsaw Man, which was afflicted by money problems and halted […]

May, 24

The Looking Glass War **½ (1970, Christopher Jones, Ralph Richardson, Anthony Hopkins, Paul Rogers, Pia Degermark, Susan George, Anna Massey) – Classic Movie Review 4849

Writer-director Frank R Pierson’s 1970 British thriller The Looking Glass War is a passable espionage entertainment, but it is hardly an ideal version of John le Carré’s thoughtful 1965 spy novel about the British intelligence […]

Jan, 05

Duplicity *** (2009, Clive Owen, Julia Roberts, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Giamatti) – Classic Movie Review 4620

After appearing together in 2004’s Closer, Clive Owen and Julia Roberts are reunited for writer-director Tony Gilroy’s entertaining 2009 romantic caper thriller as a pair of former spies for MI6 and the CIA. They fell […]

Nov, 09

Our Kind of Traitor ***½ (2016, Ewan McGregor, Damian Lewis, Naomie Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeremy Northam) – Movie Review

Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris star as a weary long-term British couple, Perry Makepeace and Gail Perkins, who go on a rekindling romance-type holiday in Marrakech and meet dodgy Russian Dima (Stellan Skarsgård). Dima asks Perry to party with him and challenges him to […]

May, 13

Grimsby ** (2016, Sacha Baron Cohen, Mark Strong, Isla Fisher) – Movie Review

Sacha Baron Cohen puts the grim in Grimsby as his latest creation, the football obsessed, kebab-munching Nobby. Cohen and Mark Strong form a highly skilled comedy double act but the jokes are mean and offensive – and isn’t […]

Feb, 24

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life *** (2003, Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler, Ciarán Hinds, Chris Barrie, Noah Taylor, Djimon Hounsou, Til Schweiger) – Classic Movie Review 972

Speed director Jan de Bont’s 2003 Lara Croft sequel proves more than the equal of the highly popular original, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001). And Angelina Jolie proves even feistier the second time around as the […]

Mar, 23

Die Another Day *** (2002, Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Rosamund Pike) – Classic Movie Review 408

Forty years on from Dr No, in 2002, James Bond finds that diamonds are forever as he investigates a Korean terrorist and a diamond broker. All the usual 007 elements are shaken and pretty well […]

Nov, 16

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