Derek Winnert

Frequency *** (2000, Dennis Quaid, Jim Caviezel, Shawn Doyle) – Classic Movie Review 6361

Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel play a father and son who contact each other across the ether and a time-span of 30 years with the help of a trick of the airwaves. Dad tries to […]

Dec, 06 · in Reviews

Fracture **** (2007, Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn, Rosamund Pike, Embeth Davidtz, Billy Burke, Cliff Curtis, Fiona Shaw, Bob Gunton) – Classic Movie Review 6360

Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling crackle in the 2007 legal thriller Fracture as rich aeronautics engineer Ted Crawford, who has devised the perfect murder of his cheating wife, and Willy Beachum, the cocky young public […]

Dec, 06 · in Reviews

In Custody [Hifazaat] *** (1994, Shashi Kapoor, Om Puri, Shabana Azmi, Sameer Mitha, Neena Gupta) – Classic Movie Review 6359

Ismail Merchant, lifelong producer of the Merchant-Ivory films, makes his first movie as director, in his intriguing though elusive 1994 film rendition of Anita Desai’s novel. The performances by an ideal cast led by Shashi Kapoor and […]

Dec, 05

Bombay Talkie *** (1970, Shashi Kapoor, Jennifer Kendal, Zia Mohyeddin) – Classic Movie Review 6358

Director James Ivory’s 1970 Indian film-studio set romantic drama stars the husband and wife team of Shashi Kapoor and Jennifer Kendal. Jennifer Kendal plays Lucia Lane, an English writer who goes to Bombay from America […]

Dec, 05

Shakespeare Wallah **** (1965, Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendal, Geoffrey Kendal, Laura Liddell, Madhur Jaffrey) – Classic Movie Review 6357

The marvellous Merchant-Ivory team established their style and reputation with director James Ivory’s leisurely, gently ironic 1965 film study of a family troupe of English travelling players in India, based on the experiences of the […]

Dec, 05

London After Midnight (1927, Lon Chaney Sr, Marceline Day, Conrad Nagel, Henry B Walthall, Percy Williams, Polly Moran) – Classic Movie Review 6356

Director Tod Browning’s reputedly engaging and rousing 1927 famed silent vampire chiller stars Lon Chaney Sr as Scotland Yard inspector Professor Edward C Burke, who terrifies lovely young Miss Smithson (Polly Moran), the new maid, while […]

Dec, 04

The Outrage ** (1964, Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Edward G Robinson, William Shatner) – Classic Movie Review 6,355

Director Martin Ritt’s 1964 American Western film The Outrage remakes Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 Japanese classic Rashomon, and stars Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Edward G Robinson and William Shatner. Though by no means an outrage, director Martin Ritt’s 1964 American […]

Dec, 04

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