Derek Winnert

Love and Death **** (1975, Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Harold Gould, Jessica Harper, James Tolkan) – Classic Movie Review 4961

There is a lot of fun to be had from writer-director Woody Allen’s polished, handsome-looking and fast-moving 1975 satirical comedy from the far-off happy days when he was spoofing art rather than trying to make […]

Jan, 29 · in Reviews

The White King *** (2016, Agyness Deyn, Lorenzo Allchurch, Ross Partridge, Jonathan Pryce, Fiona Shaw, Greta Scacchi) – Movie Review

Lorenzo Allchurch plays carefree 12-year-old boy Djata, growing up in an East European countryside commune under a brutal fictitious near-future dictatorship that seizes and imprisons his father (Ross Partridge). Djata and his mother (Agyness Deyn) are branded traitors, but […]

Jan, 29 · in Reviews

The Wild and the Willing [Young and Willing] ** (1962, Virginia Maskell, Paul Rogers, Ian McShane, Samantha Eggar John Hurt) – Classic Movie Review 4960

Director Ralph Thomas’s 1962 romantic drama takes a lurid look at British redbrick college life, depicting the lives of a group of students at university. It is seen through a once steamy lens, in the […]

Jan, 29

The Field *** (1990, Richard Harris, John Hurt, Tom Berenger, Sean Bean, Frances Tomelty, Brenda Fricker) – Classic Movie Review 4959

Oscar-nominated, white-bearded Richard Harris is wonderfully moving as ‘Bull’ McCabe, a proud, stubborn old man willing to fight to the death over a parcel of land, in writer-director Jim Sheridan’s 1990 Irish Thirties-set period picture. […]

Jan, 28

Love and Death on Long Island **** (1997, John Hurt, Jason Priestley, Sheila Hancock, Maury Chaykin, Fiona Loewi, Harvey Atkin, Gawn Grainger) – Classic Movie Review 4958

John Hurt revealed that his personal favourites of his own films were Love and Death on Long Island (1997), in which he plays an ageing author obsessed with a young actor, and The Field (1990), […]

Jan, 28

Undersea Girl * (1957, Mara Corday, Pat Conway, Dan Seymour, Florence Marly) – Classic Movie Review 4957

Mara Corday, Pat Conway and Dan Seymour star as a reporter, a US Navy investigator and a police lieutenant who join the hunt for loot stashed undersea in a scuttled vessel in director John Peyser’s […]

Jan, 28

Teenage Doll * (1957, June Kenney, Fay Spain, John Brinkley) – Classic Movie Review 4956

‘This story is about a sickness, a spreading epidemic that threatens to destroy our very way of life. We are not doctors. We can offer no cure. But we know that a cure must be […]

Jan, 28

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