Derek Winnert

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Mary of Scotland *** (1936, Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge) – Classic Movie Review 3925

A valiant Katharine Hepburn heads a game, if largely ill-suited, cast in director John Ford’s intriguing but shaky 1936 film version of Maxwell Anderson’s stage verse drama about the recently widowed Mary Stuart (Hepburn), who returns […]

Jun, 26

Where You’re Meant to Be **** (2016, Aidan Moffat, Sheila Stewart) – Movie Review

Co-writer/director Paul Fegan’s superlative music documentary follows Scottish indie pop artist Aidan Moffat (from Arab Strap) on tour in Scotland with the traditional Scottish folk songs he’s decided to update to suit modern, urban life. He meets up […]

Jun, 16

Dog Soldiers *** (2002, Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd, Emma Cleasby, Liam Cunningham) – Classic Movie Review 3439

Six soldiers set out in the Highland woods to destroy something out there that is killing everyone off at the time of the full moon. Writer-director Neil Marshall’s 2002 Brit werewolf chiller is occasionally scary […]

Mar, 02

Macbeth ** (2015, Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Sean Harris, David Thewlis, Jack Reynor, Elizabeth Debicki) – Movie Review

Australian director Justin Kurzel (Snowtown) throws the baby out with bathwater in his imaginative, freewheeling attempt to turn the Scottish Play into what amounts to a brutal Western movie. Jacob Koskoff, Michael Lesslie and Todd Louiso fail to […]

Sep, 30

Cottage To Let [Bombsight Stolen] **** (1941, Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim, John Mills, George Cole, Jeanne De Casalis, Michael Wilding) – Classic Movie Review 2785

Director Anthony Asquith’s 1941 British movie stars George Cole, in his film debut at 16 as Ronald, a young cockney who is evacuated to a Scottish village, always a hotbed of Nazis in the movies […]

Aug, 07

The Winter Guest **** (1997, Phyllida Law, Emma Thompson, Sheila Reid) – Classic Movie Review 2396

Alan Rickman’s highly impressive and moving debut as director stars real-life mother and daughter Phyllida Law and Emma Thompson as a screen mother and daughter. It won three awards at the Venice Film Festival. including Best Actress for Thompson. […]

Apr, 16

Highlander: Endgame *** (2000, Christopher Lambert, Adrian Paul, Bruce Payne) – Classic Movie Review 2334

Director Douglas Aarniokoski’s 2000 unsubtle, but fast-paced, action-packed sci-fi fantasy adventure thriller brings Christopher Lambert back for his fourth turn as the sword-fighting immortal Connor MacLeod. This time he is meeting up with his long-lost immortal […]

Mar, 30

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