Derek Winnert

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The Playboys *** (1992, Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn, Robin Wright, Milo O’Shea) – Classic Movie Review 11,787

Director Gillies Mackinnon’s 1992 Irish film The Playboys stars Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn, Robin Wright and Milo O’Shea. Police sergeant Brendan Hegarty (Finney) and travelling actor Tom (Quinn) fight for the hand of young unmarried mother Tara […]

Dec, 13

No Smoking *** (1993, Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi) – Classic Movie Review 11,365

The 1993 French comedy film No Smoking is part two of Alain Resnais’s monumental adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn’s play cycle Intimate Exchanges (after Smoking). There are three stories but it focuses mainly on the relationship […]

Jul, 04

Parnell * (1937, Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Edmund Gwenn, Edna May Oliver, Alan Marshal, Donald Crisp, Billie Burke) – Classic Movie Review 11,127

‘The romance that rocked the foundations of an empire…. now lives on the screen!’ Director John M Stahl’s 1937 black and white historical romantic drama Parnell is a tedious, misbegotten biopic of Charles Stewart Parnell, […]

Apr, 22

Hearts of the World *** (1918, Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Robert Harron) – Classic Movie Review 10,198

D W Griffith’s famed 1918 silent World War One flagwaver propaganda drama Hearts of the World has a scenario by Griffith, in which a French family suffers as their son, Douglas Gordon Hamilton (Robert Harron) […]

Aug, 19

Mister Moses * (1965, Robert Mitchum, Carroll Baker, Ian Bannen, Alexander Knox, Raymond St Jacques) – Classic Movie Review 10,012

‘Joe Moses is his name… stealing Africa is his game!’ Director Ronald Neame’s badly dated 1965 adventure film Mister Moses is feeble if well-meaning Boys Own adventure stuff, with a quasi-Bible theme, reworking the story […]

Jul, 07

Miss Marple: The Moving Finger **** (1985, Joan Hickson, Michael Culver, Elizabeth Counsell) – Classic Movie Review 9,610

Director John Boulting’s 1985 BBC two-episode TV mini-series Miss Marple: The Moving Finger stars Joan Hickson, who takes on her second case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, based on the 1942 novel by Agatha Christie, […]

Apr, 07

Astérix & Obélix contre César [Asterix and Obelix vs Caesar] ** (1999, Christian Clavier, Gérard Depardieu, Roberto Benigni) – Classic Movie Review 9564

Director Claude Zidi’s 1999 Asterix and Obelix vs Caesar [Astérix and Obélix contre César] was a huge hit in its countries of origin, France, Germany and Italy, but it is a slack and lazy live-action […]

Mar, 26

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