Derek Winnert

The King and Four Queens ** (1956, Clark Gable, Jo Van Fleet, Eleanor Parker, Barbara Nichols, Jean Willes, Sara Shane) – Classic Movie Review 6805

Director Raoul Walsh’s roistering and raunchy 1956 Western has a tailor-made role for an agreeably ageing Clark Gable (now no longer with his long-term studio MGM) as the King (his movie nickname too as the […]

Mar, 15 · in Reviews

Mary Magdalene * (2018, Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tahar Rahim) – Movie Review

Director Garth Davis struggles to tell screen-writers Helen Edmundson and Philippa Goslett’s revised, modernised version of the story of Mary Magdalene, with inert and uninvolving performances from Rooney Mara as Mary Magdalene, Joaquin Phoenix as Jesus, Chiwetel Ejiofor as […]

Mar, 15 · in Reviews

Reunion **** (1989, Jason Robards, Christien Anholt, Samuel West) – Classic Movie Review 6804

Reunion is the haunting story of the broken ‘enchanted friendship’ of two teenage boys of different backgrounds in 1932-33 Germany, with Harold Pinter’s distinguished screenplay adapting Fred Uhlman’s novel. Count Konradin von Lohenburg: ‘I believe in […]

Mar, 14

Preaching to the Perverted (1997, Christien Anholt, Guinevere Turner, Tom Bell) – Classic Movie Review 6803

Tom Bell stars as moral crusader right-wing British MP Henry Harding, who despatches a computer wiz-kid called Peter Emery (Christien Anholt) to infiltrate the London S&M scene, in this 1997 British sex comedy film Preaching to […]

Mar, 14

The Bishop’s Wife **** (1947, Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven, Monty Woolley, James Gleason, Gladys Cooper, Elsa Lanchester) – Classic Movie Review 6802

Hitchcock’s favourite actor Cary Grant (Suspicion) makes an awkward fit as an angel in The Bishop’s Wife (1947). The cinema’s best ever light comedian is always at his best in a subtle or ambiguous role and […]

Mar, 14

The Birthday Party *** (1968, Robert Shaw, Patrick McGee, Sydney Tafler, Dandy Nichols) – Classic Movie Review 6801

Harold Pinter’s highly respected and greatly admired classic play about lodger Stanley Webber, a tatty paying guest (Robert Shaw) in a seedy rooming house at an English seaside resort, who is threatened by two mysterious visiting […]

Mar, 14

Ladyhawke **** (1985, Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Leo McKern, John Wood) – Classic Movie Review 6800

Co-producer-director Richard Donner delivers the splendid, quite exquisite 1985 medieval sword and sorcery adventure Ladyhawke with the help of the most rousing performances from an ideal, actually perfect cast, headed by Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, […]

Mar, 13

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