Derek Winnert

A Dry White Season **** (1989, Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman, Zakes Mokae, Jürgen Prochnow, Susan Sarandon, Marlon Brando) – Classic Movie Review 6940

Co-writer/ director Euzhan Palcy (born on 13 January 1958 in Martinique, France) assembles an outstanding cast for her often moving, intelligent and powerful 1989 drama, based on a novel by André P Brink. Donald Sutherland […]

Apr, 18 · in Uncategorized

The Wilby Conspiracy ** (1975, Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine, Nicol Williamson, Prunella Gee, Saeed Jaffrey, Persis Khambatta, Rutger Hauer ) – Classic Movie Review 6939

Director Ralph Nelson’s 1975 British movie stars Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine, who are off their usual beat in this largely creaky and unpersuasive but commendably well-meaning and action-packed political thriller, set in East Africa. […]

Apr, 18 · in Uncategorized

The Titan *** (2018, Sam Worthington, Taylor Schilling, Tom Wilkinson, Agyness Deyn, Noah Jupe) – Movie Review 

Director Lennart Ruff’s 2018 Sci-Fi thriller The Titan is interesting, intriguing, a little bit different and really rather well done. The screenplay by Max Hurwitz and story by Arash Amel are intelligent and literate. The premise, characters and dialogue are all quite strong, involving […]

Apr, 17

Swiss Family Robinson *** (1940, Thomas Mitchell, Edna Best, Freddie Bartholomew, Tim Holt, Terry Kilburn) – Classic Movie Review 6938

Director Edward Ludwig’s 1940 adventure movie Swiss Family Robinson stars Thomas Mitchell, who is excellent as William Robinson, the patriarch of the Robinson family, shipwrecked on their way to Australia and stranded on a desert […]

Apr, 17

A Tale of Two Cities **** (1958, Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Cecil Parker, Stephen Murray, Christopher Lee, Athene Seyler, Rosalie Crutchley, Ernest Clark, Paul Guers) – Classic Movie Review 6937

Director Ralph Thomas’s fine, ambitious 1958 British version of A Tale of Two Cities is the sixth film version of the Charles Dickens tale of heroics and romance during the French Revolution, carefully adapted by T […]

Apr, 17

A Tale of Two Cities ***** (1935, Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Basil Rathbone) – Classic Movie Review 6,936

Ronald Colman is ideal as English lawyer Sydney Carton, who sacrifices himself to save his French aristocrat double Charles Darnay from the guillotine, in MGM’s spectacular 1935 film of Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities. […]

Apr, 17

Taking Off **** (1971, Lynn Carlin, Buck Henry, Linnea Heacock, Georgia Engel) – Classic Movie Review 6935

Czech director Milos Forman’s highly promising 1971 American film debut is a fresh and funny, deftly handled and amusingly scripted generation-gap satire about a middle-aged couple Lynn and Larry Tyne (Lynn Carlin and Buck Henry) who […]

Apr, 17

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