Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "catholic church"

Check out all of the posts tagged with "catholic church".

The Assisi Underground ** (1985, Ben Cross, James Mason, Irene Papas) – Classic Movie Review 10,263

Writer-director Alexander Ramati’s 1985 The Assisi Underground is a well-meaning, costly, but largely ineptly told wartime adventure about Catholic monks in Assisi (Perugia, Umbria, Italy) hiding Italian Jewish refugees from the Nazis in 1943 and […]

Sep, 04

Galileo *** (1975, Topol, Edward Fox, Tom Conti, Colin Blakely, John Gielgud, Margaret Leighton, Patrick Magee, John McEnery) – Classic Movie Review 10,078

Topol is an unexpected choice as the 17th-century Italian scientist Galileo Galilei, but, in an intense, dignified star turn, he earns his inclusion in Joseph Losey’s 1975 historical biographical drama film Galileo.  Thanks to the […]

Jul, 23

The Two Popes ***** (2019, Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Hopkins, Juan Minujín) – Movie Review

Director Fernando Meirelles’s fascinating true-life biographical comedy drama The Two Popes (2019) is one of the films of the year, with Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins both on scalding form as the liberal future Pope […]

Dec, 16

The Cardinal *** (1963, Tom Tryon, John Huston, Romy Schneider) – Classic Movie Review 8601

Director Otto Preminger’s colourfully glossy saga of the young Boston priest called Stephen Fermoyle (Tom Tryon), who battles racists at home and Nazis abroad, and then becomes a cardinal, is a big and bumpy experience, […]

Jun, 17

Spotlight **** (2015, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci, Billy Crudup) – Movie Review

Spotlight is tense, urgent and dynamic, with great performances and a good flavour of the newsroom. Co-writer / director Tom McCarthy urgently tells the true story of how the Boston Globe’s tenacious Spotlight team of […]

Jan, 15

The Bells of St Mary’s **** (1945, Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers) – Classic Movie Review 3130

Producer-director Leo McCarey brings Oscar-winning Bing Crosby quickly back for his heartwarming, sweet but not sickly 1945 follow-up to Going My Way (1944), with Father O’Malley (Crosby) now melting away the prejudices of chirpy Sister […]

Dec, 05

Foul Play **** (1978, Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase) – Classic Movie Review 3058

Writer-director Colin Higgins’s hilarious 1978 comedy thriller stars Goldie Hawn as a shy San Francisco librarian innocently embroiled in a plot to kill the Pope on a visit to the city and Chevy Chase as […]

Nov, 14

Navigation

Please use the navigation to move within this section.