Derek Winnert

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Immortal Beloved * (1994, Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbé, Isabella Rossellini, Marco Hofschneider) – Classic Movie Review 10,354

Writer-director Bernard Rose’s fumbled 1994 film Immortal Beloved is a plush but pretty tedious historical biopic, with Gary Oldman bravely battling miscasting as musical ‘genius’ Ludwig van Beethoven, with the mystery of the composer’s Unsterbliche […]

Sep, 26

Wetherby *** (1985, Vanessa Redgrave, Ian Holm, Judi Dench, Marjorie Yates, Tom Wilkinson, Joely Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 10,332

The 1985 British drama Wetherby is a typical piece from writer David Hare – dour, intelligent and enigmatic – with Vanessa Redgrave starring as Jean Travers, a spinster teacher interested in a weird chap (Tim […]

Sep, 21

The Awful Dr Orloff [Gritos en la noche] *** (1962, Conrado San Martín, Diana Lorys, Howard Vernon, Ricardo Valle) – Classic Movie Review 9710

Writer-director Jesús Franco’s 1962 Spanish horror movie The Awful Dr Orloff [Gritos en la noche] stars Howard Vernon as Dr Orloff. He is a mad doctor who kidnaps beautiful women to operate on them and […]

May, 03

Blackmailed ** (1951, Mai Zetterling, Dirk Bogarde, Fay Compton, Robert Flemyng) – Classic Movie Review 9707

A good yarn based on Elizabeth Myers’s novel Mrs Christopher becomes a rather artificial and tame British thriller in 1951 as Blackmailed, but with a good, hard-working cast headed by Dirk Bogarde and Mai Zetterling, […]

May, 03

Showdown at Abilene ** (1956, Jock Mahoney, Lyle Bettger, Martha Hyer) – Classic Movie Review 9696

The 1956 Western film Showdown at Abilene provides a fair level of entertainment, in which presumed dead Civil War soldier Jim Trask (Jock Mahoney) comes home to Abilene, Kansas, where he had been sheriff, to […]

May, 01

Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder *** (1987, Joan Hickson, Geraldine Alexander, John Moulder-Brown) – Classic Movie Review 9,629

The 1987 TV movie Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder again stars Joan Hickson, who takes on her sixth case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, based on the 1976 novel by Agatha Christie.  Director John Davies’s 1987 […]

Apr, 12

The Invisible Man ** (2020, Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Harriet Dyer, Aldis Hodge, Storm Reid, Michael Dorman) – Movie Review

Elisabeth Moss stars in The Invisible Man (2020) as Cecilia, who runs from her abusive lover, Adrian, who then apparently takes his own life. But Adrian has faked his own death and has been hiding […]

Mar, 08

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