Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Pete Kelly’s Blues **** (1955, Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O’Brien, Peggy Lee, Andy Devine, Lee Marvin, Ella Fitzgerald, Jayne Mansfield) – Classic Movie Review 7,041

The exceptional 1955 musical crime film Pete Kelly’s Blues stars Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O’Brien, Peggy Lee, Andy Devine, Lee Marvin and Ella Fitzgerald, and features Jayne Mansfield. It is based on Jack Webb’s […]

May, 12 · in Reviews

Girls’ Night *** (1998, Brenda Blethyn, Julie Walters, Sue Cleaver, Meera Syal, Philip Jackson, George Costigan, Maxine Peake) – Classic Movie Review 7040

Well!, Well!, Well! Director Nick Hurran’s well acted, well written and well directed 1998 British comedy drama Girls’ Night stars Brenda Blethyn and Julie Walters as best friends Dawn and Jackie, also in-laws and factory co-workers, who set […]

May, 12 · in Reviews

Buster *** (1988, Phil Collins, Julie Walters, Larry Lamb) – Classic Movie Review 7039

Director David Green’s entertaining, sentimental 1988 real-life thriller biopic stars Phil Collins, who makes his star début as 1963 Great Train Robber, Buster Edwards, playing him as a London working-class lad who wants to make […]

May, 12

Checking Out * (1989, Jeff Daniels, Melanie Mayron, Michael Tucker) – Classic Movie Review 7038

Director David Leland’s 1989 comedy stars Jeff Daniels as airline worker family man Ray Macklin, who is suddenly convinced that  his number will be up any moment after his best friend dies of a heart […]

May, 11

The Land Girls ** (1998, Catherine McCormack, Rachel Weisz, Anna Friel, Steven Macintosh) – Classic Movie Review 7037

In World War Two, three London ladies called Ag, Stella and Prue (Rachel Weisz, Catherine McCormack and Anna Friel) are billeted on a farm in the Dorest countryside, where they have to work for The […]

May, 11

Wish You Were Here *** (1987, Emily Lloyd, Trudi Cavanagh, Clare Clifford, Tom Bell, Barbara Durkin) – Classic Movie Review 7,036

Debut director David Leland, who also wrote Terry Jones’s 1987 film Personal Services, grabs more mileage the same year from the real-life story of Streatham brothel keeper Cynthia Payne in Wish You Were Here. Début […]

May, 11

Personal Services **** (1987, Julie Walters, Alec McCowen, Shirley Stelfox) – Classic Movie Review 7035

Director Terry Jones’s 1987 British comedy drama Personal Services finds a perfectly cast Julie Walters on great, exuberant form and having a grand old time as brothel madam Christine, inspired by the real-life south London […]

May, 11

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