Derek Winnert

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Passage to Marseille ***½ (1944, Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Michèle Morgan, Helmut Dantine) – Classic Movie Review 3880

Director Michael Curtiz’s propaganda-driven 1944 wartime thriller provides a slightly bumpy passage despite the first-class passengers, including the welcome reunion of five of the stars of Casablanca (1942) – Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre […]

Jun, 17

This Is England ***** (2006, Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley, Jack O’Connell, Joseph Gilgun, Kieran Hardcastle, Andrew Shim) – Classic Movie Review 3724

This Is England is, arguably, writer-director Shane Meadows’s chillingly realistic 2006 masterpiece. It features an astounding performance by Thomas Turgoose (aged 14) as Shaun, a 12-year-old English boy who becomes friends with bitter, racist, psychotic Combo (Stephen Graham) and a […]

May, 20

Richard III **** (1995, Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Maggie Smith, Robert Downey Jr, Nigel Hawthorne) – Classic Movie Review 3645

Director Richard Loncraine’s 1995 Shakespeare movie gives Ian McKellen a showcase where he dazzlingly re-creates his stage performance as the mad English monarch Richard III, fired by vaulting ambition, hate and revenge on humankind for […]

May, 02

Three Men and a Little Lady ** (1990, Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson, Nancy Travis) – Classic Movie Review 3560

Emile Ardolino directs a feeble 1990 sequel to the 1987 baby blockbuster comedy Three Men and a Baby, happily with all the appealing four stars returning. But, alas, Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson and Nancy Travis […]

Apr, 12

The Boy ** (2015, Lauren Cohan, Rupert Evans, Diana Hardcastle, Jim Norton, Ben Robson, James Russell) – Movie Review

Lauren Cohan stars as Greta, young American woman who comes to UK for the first time on the run from her past and takes a job with a creepy elderly couple, Mrs and Mr Heelshire (Diana Hardcastle, […]

Mar, 29

Robin Hood *** (2010, Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Max Von Sydow, Eileen Atkins, Oscar Issac, Mark Strong, Danny Huston, Matthew Macfadyen) – Classic Movie Review 3443

The untold story of why Robin Hood became an outlaw in the first place provides a good enough excuse for this new 2010 version of the old Robin Hood movies. It seems he was Robin […]

Mar, 02

The King’s Speech ***** (2010, Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter) – Classic Movie Review 3,311

A whole film about stuttering? Well, put that way, maybe not, thank you. The King’s Speech is, well, rotten. But not the movie, his actual speech. The movie’s astounding. So absolutely, yes please! It’s the […]

Feb, 01

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