Derek Winnert

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The Importance of Being Earnest ***** (1952, Michael Redgrave, Michael Denison, Edith Evans) – Classic Movie Review 1161

Writer-director Anthony Asquith delivers a beautifully graceful movie version of Oscar Wilde’s greatest work. He has the most polished and perfect cast at his disposal in this much revered, impeccably staged 1952 British classic high […]

Apr, 30

Topsy-Turvy **** (1999, Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Dexter Fletcher, Timothy Spall) – Classic Movie Review 719

What’s this? Writer-director Mike Leigh, of Secrets & Lies fame, not making a film that’s full of biting social comment? Surely some mistake? But no. Leigh had long nurtured the idea of making a film about […]

Jan, 19

The Time Machine *** (2002, Guy Pearce, Yancey Arias, Mark Addy, Phyllida Law, Samantha Mumba, Jeremy Irons, Orlando Jones) – Classic Movie Review 662

Guy Pearce stars as haunted-looking Victorian scientist and inventor Alexander Hartdegen who, after his wife is killed, travels in his machine through time in search of her. Remaking the much-loved 1960 version by George Pal, The […]

Jan, 10

The Mummy **** (1959, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux) – Classic Movie Review 499

‘Torn from the tomb to terrify the world!’ The 1959 British horror film The Mummy stars Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, along with Yvonne Furneaux, Eddie Byrne, Felix Aylmer, Raymond Huntley and George Pastell. It […]

Dec, 11

Oliver Twist ***** (1948, Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, John Howard Davies) – Classic Movie Review 165

Director David Lean’s richly entertaining 1948 movie adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic Oliver Twist is still by far the best attempt to put the book on screen. Though he was accused of anti-Semitism in […]

Aug, 15

Dracula [Horror of Dracula] ***** (1958, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling) – Classic Movie Review 90

Hammer Films adds the final touches to its repertoire – blood and sex – with a bevvy of beauties being bitten to orgasmic screams after opening their windows to the Count, in the 1958 British […]

Jul, 25

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