Derek Winnert

Picnic at Hanging Rock **** (1975, Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Vivean Gray, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Jacki Weaver) – Classic Movie Review 7097

‘On St Valentine’s Day in 1900 a party of schoolgirls set out to picnic at Hanging Rock. Some were never to return.’ Miranda: ‘What we see and what we seem are but a dream, a […]

May, 26 · in Reviews

Trust **** (1990, Adrienne Shelly, Martin Donovan, Rebecca Nelson, Edie Falco) – Classic Movie Review 7095

Writer-director Hal Hartley’s nicely written, tremendously well performed, deliciously dark 1991 cult comedy of romance in drab, middle-class Long Island is brimming over with engaging characters and offbeat humour. Adrienne Shelly stars as Maria Coughlin, a […]

May, 25 · in Reviews

Truly Madly Deeply **** (1990, Juliet Stevenson, Alan Rickman, Michael Maloney, Bill Paterson, Jenny Howe) – Classic Movie Review 7094

Writer-director Anthony Minghella’s 1990 film Truly Madly Deeply is the adorable British answer to Ghost (1990), in which Juliet Stevenson stars as English language teacher Nina, still in love with her dead cellist boyfriend Jamie (Alan […]

May, 25

Tuesdays with Morrie **** (1999, Jack Lemmon, Hank Azaria, Wendy Moniz) – Classic Movie Review 7093

In one of his last roles, the great Jack Lemmon touches the heart in a clever, intense, intimate performance as the old Morrie Schwartz, who is dying of Lou Gehrig’s disease, in director Mick Jackson’s […]

May, 25

Tudor Rose [Nine Days a Queen] ** (1936, Nova Pilbeam, Cedric Hardwicke, John Mills, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 7092

Director Robert Stevenson’s 1936 Gainsborough Pictures’ historical biopic Tudor Rose is the first film to tell the tragic tale of Lady Jane Grey, England’s queen for nine days in 1553 before she was executed by beheading for […]

May, 25

Solo: A Star Wars Story *** (2018, Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke) – Movie Review 

Director: Ron Howard’s 2018 Solo: A Star Wars Story is okay as a pleasant time-passer and has some enjoyable sequences and entertaining characters. But it is a bit sticky and stodgy in places, and it […]

May, 25

This Is the Army *** (1943, George Murphy, Joan Leslie, Ronald Reagan, George Tobias, Alan Hale, Irving Berlin) – Classic Movie Review 7091

Director Michael Curtiz’s 1943 movie This Is the Army provides military musical mayhem aplenty in this extravagant Technicolor wartime revue by Irving Berlin which, at the time of its release during World War Two, made […]

May, 24

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