Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

May *** (2002, Angela Bettis, Jeremy Sisto, Anna Faris, James Duval, Will Estes) – Classic Movie Review 4876

Writer-director Lucky McKee’s smart but very disturbing 2002 psycho thriller stars Angela Bettis in an effective role as a mousey young woman called May, who decides to murder several people and assemble an ideal friend from […]

Jan, 11 · in Uncategorized

Let It Be ***½ (1970, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr) – Classic Movie Review 4875

Director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s candid, award-winning 1970 British music documentary Let It Be is 81 minutes of Beatles bliss, photographed shot in 16mm in Technicolor by Anthony B Richmond, and edited down from hundreds of hours […]

Jan, 11 · in Uncategorized

Let George Do It ***½ (1940, George Formby, Phyllis Calvert, Garry Marsh, Romney Brent, Bernard Lee, Coral Browne, Torin Thatcher) – Classic Movie Review 4874

Director Marcel Varnel’s 1940 British black-and-white comedy musical war film stars George Formby as George Hepplewhite, a daft ukulele playing concert-party member, who mistakes Bergen, Norway, for Blackpool, England. Having taken the wrong boat and […]

Jan, 11

Daddy Nostalgie [These Foolish Things [Daddy Nostalgia] **** (1990, Dirk Bogarde, Jane Birkin, Odette Laure) – Classic Movie Review 4,873

While retired English businessman (Dirk Bogarde) is recuperating from heart surgery, his adult daughter Caroline (Jane Birkin) comes from Paris to visit him and her mother, in Bertrand Tavernier’s impressive 1990 drama film Daddy Nostalgie.  […]

Jan, 10

The Patricia Neal Story *** (1981, Dirk Bogarde, Glenda Jackson, Mildred Dunnock, Ken Kercheval, Jane Merrow) – Classic Movie Review 4872

Dirk Bogarde is tempted out of retirement for his first TV movie (one of only three that he did) as children’s author Roald Dahl, paired effectively with Jackson (also her TV movie debut) as his […]

Jan, 10

May We Borrow Your Husband? **½ (1986, Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Attenborough, Francis Matthews, David Yelland, Simon Shepherd, Claude Coppola) – Classic Movie Review 4871

Director Bob Mahoney 1986 British TV movie for Yorkshire TV stars Dirk Bogarde as divorced William Harris in his own adaptation of Graham Greene’s story. He is staying in France in a Nice hotel, where […]

Jan, 10

The Vision *** (1987, Dirk Bogarde, Lee Remick, Eileen Atkins) – Classic Movie Review 4870

Director Norman Stone’s 1987 TV movie stars Dirk Bogarde, who brings his distinctive touch to the part of veteran broadcaster James Marriner, ‘Gentle Jim’, an ex-TV newsman lured into the spider’s web of an evangelical […]

Jan, 09

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