Derek Winnert

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A Matter of Life and Death [Stairway to Heaven] ***** (1946, David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey, Marius Goring, Raymond Massey ) – Classic Movie Review 604

‘This is a story of two worlds the one we know and another which exists only in the mind of a young airman whose life and imagination have been violently shaped by war. Any resemblance to […]

Dec, 31

Spider-Man 2 ***** (2004, Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Alfred Molina, James Franco, Rosemary Harris, J K Simmons) – Classic Movie Review 581

Can they spin another great yarn? Yep, they sure can! Director Sam Raimi’s 2004 sensational sequel Spider-Man 2, picking up where the 2002 blockbuster Spider-Man left off, is, if anything, even more awesome than the […]

Dec, 28

Predators *** (2010, Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne, Topher Grace, Alice Braga, Danny Trejo) – Classic Movie Review 560

A small group of folk – most of them kick-ass fighters with big guns and knives – find themselves weirdly parachuted down onto an alien planet, largely covered in jungle. They soon encounter the famous […]

Dec, 22

Godsend *** (2004, Robert De Niro, Greg Kinnear, Rebecca Romijn, Cameron Bright) – Classic Movie Review 423

First, take a great idea: a devilish doctor confronts distraught parents at the funeral of their eight-year-old son killed in a road accident, makes an offer they can’t refuse to clone the boy. They accept […]

Nov, 18

Stagecoach ***** (1939, John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Andy Devine, John Carradine, Thomas Mitchell, Louise Platt, George Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 386

‘My name’s John Ford and I make Westerns,’ said the director, and this double Oscar-winning 1939 masterwork is his most famous. In it, a motley crew of misfits tries to cross the New Mexico Territory in a […]

Nov, 10

The Hound of the Baskervilles **** (1939, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Richard Greene, Wendy Barrie, John Carradine) – Classic Film Review 314

Memorable as the first appearance of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson, the 1939 The Hound of the Baskervilles is a delightful vintage mystery treat. It is the first of their 14 […]

Oct, 23

This Sporting Life ***** (1963, Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, Alan Badel, William Hartnell) – Classic Movie Review 190

All-time great British director Lindsay Anderson’s searing film This Sporting Life is an authentic British classic of the short-lived but influential and vibrant 60s realist new wave movement. Kitchen sink drama, it was called back then. […]

Aug, 25

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