Derek Winnert

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Weekend at Bernie’s *** (1989, Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Silverman, Catherine Mary Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 9285

Director Ted Kotcheff’s 1989 Weekend at Bernie’s is a spirited, even memorable try at that notoriously difficult genre – black comedy – in which New York insurance yuppies Larry Wilson and Richard Parker (Andrew McCarthy […]

Jan, 20

Quiet Weekend *** (1946, Derek Farr, Marjorie Fielding, George Thorpe, Frank Cellier, Helen Shingler, Barbara White, Edward Rigby) – Classic Movie Review 8623

Derek Farr stars as Denys Royd, who goes to the country for the weekend at a run-down cottage with his parents (Marjorie Fielding and George Thorpe) and obnoxious socialite girlfriend, in the 1946 British comedy […]

Jun, 22

Welcome Home *** (2018, Emily Ratajkowski, Aaron Paul, Riccardo Scamarcio) – Movie Review

A quarrelling, unfaithful couple on holiday to try to make their relationship all right again, a mysterious creepy stranger, a thriller set in the Italian countryside. What’s not to like? Self-satisfied, duck out of water […]

Nov, 13

The Osterman Weekend *** (1983, Rutger Hauer, John Hurt, Burt Lancaster, Craig T Nelson, Dennis Hopper, Chris Sarandon, Meg Foster, Helen Shaver) – Classic Movie Review 7244

Hopes were high with the idea of Sam Peckinpah filming a Robert Ludlum novel in 1983 – a great union of two masters of their craft seemed in the making. But Sam Peckinpah’s final film […]

Jul, 02

Innocents in Paris *** (1953, Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford, Jimmy Edwards, Claire Bloom, Peter Illing, Gaby Bruyère, James Copeland, Ronald Shiner, Claude Dauphin, Laurence Harvey) – Classic Movie Review 6571

A great vintage cast of seven British actors play assorted characters who catch the plane from London and spend a weekend in Paris. There they experience amorous and other adventures and kick up a few mild […]

Jan, 16

The Shooting Party **** (1985, James Mason, Edward Fox, Dorothy Tutin, John Gielgud, Gordon Jackson, Cheryl Campbell, Robert Hardy, Frank Windsor, Rupert Frazer, Judi Bowker) – Classic Movie Review 6278

Edwardian barrister Lionel Stephens (Rupert Frazer) engages with renowned sportsman Lord Gilbert Hartlip (Edward Fox) in an escalating contest over who can shoot the most game in director Alan Bridges’s rich and rewarding 1985 British […]

Nov, 21

The Lovers [Les Amants] **** (1958, Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cluny, Jean-Marc Bory) – Classic Movie Review 5229

The 25-year-old co-writer/ director Louis Malle’s 1958 second feature is a deliciously lyrical love story that caused huge controversy and confirmed the rising reputations of the French director and his star Jeanne Moreau, previously established […]

Apr, 01

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