Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "cat and mouse"

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The Chalk Garden **** (1964, Deborah Kerr, Hayley Mills, John Mills, Edith Evans, Elizabeth Sellars) – Classic Movie Review 8653

Edith Evans triumphs as old lady Mrs St Maugham, and the witty 1964 British drama film The Chalk Garden is an affecting and appealing experience.  Director Ronald Neame’s gloomy but witty 1964 British drama The […]

Jun, 29

Funny Games *** (2007, Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet, Devon Gearhart) – Classic Movie Review 5220

Michael Pitt plays another of his twisted and troubled characters as Paul in director Michael Haneke’s alienating shot-by-shot English-language remake of his Austrian original Funny Games (1997). Pitt and Brady Corbet play a couple of young, articulate, white-gloved psychos, […]

Mar, 30

Deception * (2008, Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, Michelle Williams, Bruce Altman, Andrew Ginsburg) – Classic Movie Review 4341

Nerdy New York accountant Jonathan McQuarry (Ewan McGregor) meets slick lawyer Wyatt Bose (Hugh Jackman), who draws him an into the twilight world of an elite Manhattan dating club, where high fliers meet for no-strings […]

Sep, 11

Sudden Fear **** (1952, Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame, Bruce Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 2088

Joan Crawford commands the screen forcefully in this twisty and stylish 1952 cat-and-mouse film noir thriller as Myra Hudson, a rich middle-aged playwright who vetoes ambitious actor Lester Blaine (Jack Palance) as the lead in her new […]

Jan, 18

Turbulence *** (1997, Ray Liotta, Lauren Holly, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Cross, Rachel Tricotin) – Classic Movie Review 975

Director Robert Butler’s 1997 airplane disaster movie is a most enjoyable, tongue-in-cheek action thriller, skilfully written by Jonathan Brett so that it is actually deliberately in the so-bad-it’s-good category. Now that is witty and clever! […]

Mar, 24

All Things to All Men [The Deadly Game] *** (2013, Gabriel Byrne, Rufus Sewell, Toby Stephens, Terence Maynard, James Frain, David Schofield, Julian Sands) – Movie Review

Rufus Sewell stars as a maverick –  ie bent – copper who stages a robbery with help from safe-cracker Toby Stephens and crime lord Gabriel Byrne in a London-set crime thriller story that closely recalls the […]

Jun, 19

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