Derek Winnert

Hardware *** (1990, Dylan McDermott, Stacey Travis, John Lynch) – Classic Movie Review 6407

Writer-director Richard Stanley’s 1990 British cult sci-fi horror thriller is a full-blooded, full-on shocker affair, with all systems go to combat a routine, derivative tale about a killer robot terrorising the heroine Jill Grakowski (Stacey […]

Dec, 14 · in Reviews

White Mischief **** (1987, Charles Dance, Greta Scacchi, Joss Ackland, John Hurt) – Classic Movie Review 6,406

Joss Ackland CBE (29 February 1928 – 19 November 2023) appeared in more than 130 films and TV shows. He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for the 1987 film White […]

Dec, 14 · in Reviews

Another Time, Another Place **** (1983, Phyllis Logan, Giovanni Mauriello, Denise Coffey) – Classic Movie Review 6405

Co-writer/ director Michael Radford’s outstanding 1983 Film on Four World War Two wartime romantic drama is lit up by Phyllis Logan’s peerless performance as Janie, a desiccated Scottish farmer’s wife whose passions are inflamed when […]

Dec, 14

9 to 5 [Nine to Five] **** (1980, Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman) – Classic Movie Review 6,404

Colin Higgins’s extremely bright and jolly 1980 office-set satirical comedy movie 9 to 5 is propelled by the terrific turns of Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton and Dabney Coleman. Co-writer-director Colin Higgins’s 1980 movie 9 […]

Dec, 14

1984 *** (1956, Michael Redgrave, Edmond O’Brien, Jan Sterling, David Kossoff, Mervyn Johns, Donald Pleasence) – Classic Movie Review 6403

After a famous 1954 British TV version with Peter Cushing, director Michael Anderson’s 1956 British feature is the first film of George Orwell’s prophetic novel about Big Brother taking over Europe, and the rebellion and […]

Dec, 14

Nineteen Eighty-Four [1984] **** (1984, John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 6402

Nineteen Eighty-Four is a satisfactory, in many ways satisfying remake of George Orwell’s famous prophetic, futuristic dystopian novel, filmed in the UK to celebrate the year it depicts. It was released in the UK on […]

Dec, 13

Nine Hours to Rama ** (1963, Horst Buchholz, José Ferrer, Diane Baker, Robert Morley, Harry Andrews, Valerie Gearon) – Classic Movie Review 6401

Director Mark Robson’s 1962 drama is based on the novel by Stanley Wolpert and handsomely made in India. It offers a fictionalised account of Hindu militant activist Nathuram Godse (Horst Buchholz)’s plan to kill Mahatma […]

Dec, 13

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