Derek Winnert

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For Your Eyes Only **** (1981, Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet, Topol, Julian Glover) – Classic Movie Review 1024

The 1981 spy film For Your Eyes Only is James Bond movie number 12, with Roger Moore happily back, a spunky heroine in Carole Bouquet as Melina Havelock, and Chaim Topol and Julian Glover oddly […]

Mar, 30

Live and Let Die **** (1973, Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour, Clifton James, Julius Harris, Geoffrey Holder, Gloria Hendry) – Classic Movie Review 1022

Directed by Guy Hamilton in 1973, Roger Moore’s debut film as British Secret Service agent 007 is one of the best of his series of seven Bond movies. Live and Let Die is the eighth in the Eon […]

Mar, 30

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service ***½ (1969, George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas) – Classic Movie Review 991

Director Peter R Hunt’s 1969 007 movie On Her Majesty’s Secret Service finds Sean Connery temporarily replaced as James Bond with an entirely adequate George Lazenby. The former male model got only one shot at […]

Mar, 25

Never Say Never Again *** (1983, Sean Connery, Kim Basinger, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Barbara Carrera, Bernie Casey, Alec McCowen, Edward Fox) – Classic Movie Review 990

Director Irving Kershner’s 1983 007 spy movie Never Say Never Again stars a fit-looking 52-year-old Sean Connery, who confidently returns for a one-off grab at his James Bond crown in a remake of the 1965 […]

Mar, 25

Diamonds Are Forever **** (1971, Sean Connery, Jill St John, Charles Gray, Lana Wood, Bernard Lee, Desmond Llewelyn, Lois Maxwell) – Classic Movie Review 953

Lana Wood: ‘I’m Plenty.’ Sean Connery: ‘I bet you are.’ Wood: ‘Plenty O’Toole.’ Connery: ’Named after your father?’ The 1971 spy thriller Diamonds Are Forever finds Sean Connery enjoying his sixth James Bond movie. Lana […]

Mar, 21

Svengali ** (2013, Jonny Owen, Maxine Peake, Joel Fry, Martin Freeman, Vicky McClure, Michael Socha) – Film Review

Jonny Owen writes and stars in this slightly quirky, slightly funny, very old-fashioned comedy look at the British music scene. He plays, rather likeably, a loveable loser called Dixie, up in London from the sticks, who […]

Mar, 21

A Little Princess **** (1995, Liesel Matthews, Eleanor Bron, Liam Cunningham) – Classic Movie Review 845

Director Alfonso Cuarôn’s 1995 movie is a marvellous remake of the 1911 classic novel A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (the author of Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden) and the beloved 1939 Shirley Temple […]

Feb, 19

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