Derek Winnert

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Chariots of Fire ***** (1981, Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Ian Holm, Nigel Havers, Nicholas Farrell, John Gielgud, Lindsay Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 1399

Director Hugh Hudson’s four-Oscar-winning 1981 triumph Chariots of Fire tells the real-life story of two athletes, Scottish missionary Eric Liddell and Jewish Cambridge University undergraduate Harold Abrahams, who ran for Britain in the 1924 Olympics. […]

Jul, 06

The Grifters ***** (1990, Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening) – Classic Movie Review 1354

Director Stephen Frears’s hardboiled 1990 thriller takes no prisoners and does 100 per cent justice to its rightly revered source author Jim Thompson. It finds Anjelica Huston on scalding form as Lilly Dillon, a small-time […]

Jun, 24

Rat Race ** (2002, John Cleese, Cuba Gooding Jr, Seth Green) – Classic Movie Review 1339

A scheming Las Vegas casino magnate, hotel-casino owner John Cleese, starts a fun race to New Mexico to collect $2million, prompting a bumbling group of no-hopers to set off a cross-continent dash to reach the dosh. […]

Jun, 20

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