Derek Winnert

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Bastille Day **½ (2016, Idris Elba, Richard Madden, Kelly Reilly) – Movie Review

Idris Elba stars as a loose-cannon CIA agent who races through Paris to arrest an American pickpocket and forces him to join his anti-terrorist mission to foil an evil bomb plot. The pickpocket (Richard Madden) is a […]

Apr, 21

Oliver Twist ** (2005, Barney Clark, Ben Kingsley, Harry Eden, Edward Hardwicke, Leanne Rowe, Jamie Foreman, Jeremy Swift) – Classic Movie Review 2686

Let’s Twist again! Or maybe not? Producer-director Roman Polanski comes up with a disappointment in 2005 – a pedestrian, plodding and uninspired movie version of the classic Charles Dickens tale, but nevertheless with some excellent […]

Jul, 11

The Circus **** (1928, Charles Chaplin, Merna Kennedy, Allan Garcia) – Classic Movie Review 2534

Writer-producer-director-star Charles Chaplin’s 1928 silent movie is both funny and delightful. Once again he takes on his familiar persona as the Tramp, hiding out from the police in a circus, where he soon falls for […]

May, 30

Pickup on South Street ***** (1953, Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter) – Classic Movie Review 2069

Writer-director Samuel Fuller’s brutal 1953 hard-boiled Cold War spy film noir thriller is a little masterpiece of its kind, one of the cult film-maker’s great noir classics. Richard Widmark stars at his arrogant, menacing snarling […]

Jan, 11

Trouble in Paradise ***** (1932, Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 1989

Based on László Aladár’s play The Honest Finder, producer-director Ernst Lubitsch’s 1932 sophisticated comedy Trouble in Paradise is a masterclass in just how to be both brilliantly clever and hilariously witty. Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins […]

Dec, 22

Oliver! ***** (1968, Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Jack Wild, Oliver Reed) – Classic Movie Review 1809

Consider yourself well in! Director Carol Reed was the son of actor-producer Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and his mistress, May Pinney Reed. He embarked on an acting career while still in his late teens, followed […]

Nov, 05

I’m No Angel **** (1933, Mae West, Cary Grant) – Classic Movie Review 1272

Director Wesley Ruggles’s immortal 1933 comedy stars the monumental Mae West at her peak in her third motion picture, playing Tira, a carnival performer romancing Jack Clayton (Cary Grant) as she sings five tunes, trains a […]

Jun, 01

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