Derek Winnert

Murder in Three Acts ** (1986, Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis, Emma Samms, Jonathan Cecil, Fernando Allende, Pedro Armedariz Jr) – Classic Movie Review 7208

Director Gary Nelson’s moderate 1986 Agatha Christie murder thriller Murder in Three Acts offers a new mystery to solve for Peter Ustinov’s Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, who investigates some suspicious deaths by poison after he […]

Jun, 23 · in Reviews

Thirteen at Dinner *** (1985, Peter Ustinov, Faye Dunaway, David Suchet, Jonathan Cecil, Bill Nighy, Diane Keen, John Stride, Benedict Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 7,207

Peter Ustinov is very welcome back in one of his six appearances as Agatha Christie’s Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot in the 1985 film Thirteen at Dinner, a TV movie version of Christie’s novel Lord Edgware […]

Jun, 22 · in Reviews

In The Fade [Aus dem Nichts] ***** (2017, Diane Kruger, Denis Moschitto, Numan Acar) – Movie Review

Really good, serious-minded German thriller. Diane Kruger great! Writer-director Fatih Akin’s In The Fade [Aus dem Nichts] (2017) is a really good, serious-minded, grown-up German thriller. Diane Kruger is great as Katja Sekerci, who seeks revenge after […]

Jun, 22

One Night of Love **** (1934, Grace Moore, Tullio Carminati, Lyle Talbot) – Classic Movie Review 7206

Director Victor Schertzinger’s 1934 Columbia Pictures studio’s Thirties hit classical musical One Night of Love stars opera star Grace Moore as opera star Mary Bennett, who is taken under the wing of famous operatic maestro […]

Jun, 22

Merrily We Live ***** (1938, Constance Bennett, Brian Aherne, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray) – Classic Movie Review 7205

Zany families were quite the thing in the Thirties. In My Man Godfrey (1936), a zany family hires a tramp to be a butler. But here in Merrily We Live (1938) a tramp (really a famous […]

Jun, 22

The Bookshop ** (2017, Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Patricia Clarkson) – Movie Review

The Bookshop (2017) tells an interesting, if minor, small-scale nostalgia story, with mixed results. On the plus side, the three main performances of Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy and Honor Kneafsey are all very good, credible, involving and […]

Jun, 22

Eaten by Lions *** (2018, Antonio Aakeel, Jack Carroll, Asim Chaudhry, Johnny Vegas) – Movie Review

Eaten by Lions: Good script, good performances. Likeable, charming and funny. Co-writer/ director Jason Wingard’s confident contemporary multicultural comedy Eaten by Lions has a good script and good performances. It is likeable, charming and funny […]

Jun, 22

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