Derek Winnert

Madame Sousatzka *** (1988, Shirley MacLaine, Navin Chowdhry, Peggy Ashcroft, Twiggy, Leigh Lawson) – Classic Movie Review 6025

Shirley MacLaine stars as Madame Sousatzka, dotty piano teacher to a 15-year-old prodigy, Manek Sen (Navin Chowdhry), in co-writer/ director John Schlesinger’s pleasantly offbeat 1988 drama of life in a West London house peopled by […]

Sep, 13 · in Uncategorized

Madame Sin ** (1972, Bette Davis, Robert Wagner, Denholm Elliott) – Classic Movie Review 6024

‘Even Dr No would say yes to Madame Sin!’ Co-writer/ director David Greene’s 1972 thriller stars Bette Davis as mad Madame Sin, who wants to steal a Polaris nuclear-powered submarine, so she gets unwitting CIA […]

Sep, 13 · in Uncategorized

Bunny O’Hare ** (1971, Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Cassidy) – Classic Movie Review 6023

Director Gerd Oswald’s 1971 golden years comedy pairs Bette Davis and Ernest Borgnine as penniless widow granny Bunny O’Hare and old thief Billy Green, who team up to rob banks like antique hippy, motor-biking Robin Hoods! […]

Sep, 13

Crossplot ** (1969, Roger Moore, Martha Hyer, Alexis Kanner, Claudie Lange, Francis Matthews, Bernard Lee) – Classic Movie Review 6,016

The 1969 British film Crossplot is a traditional, mechanical spy thriller starring Roger Moore as a talent scout who hires a young Hungarian woman to pose for modelling shots. But she has overheard an assassination […]

Sep, 12

Connecting Rooms * (1970, Bette Davis, Michael Redgrave, Alexis Kanner, Kay Walsh, Gabrielle Drake, Leo Genn) – Classic Movie Review 6015

Writer/ producer/ director Franklin Gollings’s sluggish and disappointing 1969 drama stars a miscast Bette Davis as a rather sad street-musician cellist called Wanda Fleming and a better cast Michael Redgrave as a dismissed gay ex-schoolteacher […]

Sep, 12

Where Danger Lives **** (1950, Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains, Maureen O’Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 6,014

John Farrow’s enthralling 1950 RKO film noir crime thriller Where Danger Lives is probably the best film of producer Howard Hughes’s protégé Faith Domergue, sparking off electrically with star Robert Mitchum. ‘MITCHUM! ACTION!’ Director John […]

Sep, 12

It **** (2017, Jaeden Lieberher, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Wyatt Oleff, Jack Dylan Grazer, Chosen Jacobs, Bill Skarsgård) – Movie Review

New Line’s cinema movie of Stephen King’s horror film It (2017) was in development for seven years before filming began and has had a tricky production history. Happily, none of this shows in a polished, stylish production. It […]

Sep, 11

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