Derek Winnert

Making Mr Right *** (1987, John Malkovich, Ann Magnuson, Glenne Headly) – Classic Movie Review 5570

Ann Magnuson stars as a PR expert who falls madly in love with the product she is promoting; blonde-haired, blue-eyed android John Malkovich. Trouble ensues when the supposedly emotionless robot starts to reciprocate, infuriating both […]

Jun, 10 · in Uncategorized

Mr Holland’s Opus **** (1995, Richard Dreyfuss, Glenne Headly, Jay Thomas, Olympia Dukakis, William H Macy) – Classic Movie Review 5569

Oscar nominated as Best Actor, Richard Dreyfuss is excellent as Mr Glenn Holland, a music teacher recalling his 40-year career – and his failure as his true vocation of being a composer – on the […]

Jun, 10 · in Uncategorized

Dick Tracy ***½ (1990, Warren Beatty, Charlie Korsmo, Glenne Headly, Madonna, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman) – Classic Movie Review 5568

Producer/ director/ star Warren Beatty’s blockbuster comic strip parody Dick Tracy, based on the comic strip characters created by Chester Gould, was 1990’s most-hyped movie. In a huge star turn, Beatty impersonates the Thirties cartoon-strip […]

Jun, 10

The Man Who Could Cheat Death ** (1959, Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee ) – Classic Movie Review 5567

Director Terence Fisher’s 1958 Hammer studios horror thriller is an attractively lurid and Technicolorful version of an old play by Barré Lyndon and 1945 film The Man in Half Moon Street about a mysteriously handsome […]

Jun, 09

My Cousin Rachel ***½ (2017, Rachel Weisz, Sam Claflin, Iain Glen, Holliday Grainger) – Movie Review

Writer-director Roger Michell’s remake of Daphne Du Maurier’s novel, first filmed with Richard Burton and Olivia de Havilland in 1952, also as My Cousin Rachel, is a thoroughly enjoyable dark romance, successfully bringing out the enduring appeal of the […]

Jun, 09

The Mummy **½ (2017, Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella, Annabelle Wallis, Jake Johnson, Courtney B Vance, Russell Crowe) – Movie Review

There is no doubt that The Mummy is a great looker in IMAX 3D. It is a quite brilliant production, with astounding state-of-the-art visual effects, photography and set designs, and that is a good start. […]

Jun, 09

Wallace and Gromit’s World of Invention **** (2010, voice of Peter Sallis) – Classic Movie Review 5565

Peter Sallis’s last role as Wallace was in Wallace and Gromit’s World of Invention in 2010, the same year he played Norman ‘Cleggy’ Clegg in the final episode of TV’s Last of the Summer Wine, being the only […]

Jun, 09

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