Derek Winnert

A Study in Terror *** (1965, John Neville, Donald Houston, John Fraser, Robert Morley, Cecil Parker, Anthony Quayle, Barbara Windsor, Adrienne Corri, Judi Dench, Frank Finlay) – Classic Movie Review 4916

A Study in Terror was made in Britain in 1965 by the former Oscar-winning documentary maker turned feature director James Hill and stars John Neville and Donald Houston as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in […]

Jan, 21 · in Reviews

Murder by Decree **** (1979, Christopher Plummer, James Mason, Anthony Quayle, David Hemmings, Susan Clark, John Gielgud, Donald Sutherland, Frank Finlay, Geneviève Bujold) – Classic Movie Review 4915

Christopher Plummer and James Mason ooze sheer smooth charisma as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, who investigate Jack the Ripper’s grisly murders of Whitechapel prostitutes and uncover a web of corruption, in director Bob Clark’s […]

Jan, 21 · in Reviews

Man on the Moon **** (1999, Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Courtney Love, Paul Giamatti, Gerry Becker) – Classic Movie Review 4914

Director Milos Forman’s distinguished 1999 comedy drama stars Jim Carrey in one of his best roles and finest films. Carrey won the 2000 Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – […]

Jan, 21

The Majestic *** (2001, Jim Carrey, Martin Landau, Bob Balaban, Matt Damon, Jeffrey DeMunn, Hal Holbrook, Laurie Holden) – Classic Movie Review 4913

Director Frank Darabont’s honourable 2001 drama stars Jim Carrey as Peter Appleton, an ambitious movie screenwriter in early 1950s America, who falls victim to the communist witch-hunts. He crashes his car, loses his memory and […]

Jan, 21

Despicable Me 2 *** (2013, voices of Steve Carell, Russell Brand, Miranda Cosgrove, Elsie Fisher, Dana Gaier, Kristen Wiig, Ken Jeong, Benjamin Bratt, Steve Coogan) – Classic Movie Review 4912

Directors Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud’s cheery and likeable 2013 American 3D computer-animated comedy sequel to Despicable Me (2010) is more of the exactly same pleasing stuff without achieving its often inspired touch of greatness. It is […]

Jan, 21

Split *** (2016, James McAvoy, Betty Buckley, Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson, Jessica Sula) – Movie Review

James McAvoy luxuriates in his huge star role(s) as a split-personality mental patient with no less than 24 identifiable separate personalities, who kidnaps, imprisons and torments three understandably terrified girls (Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson, […]

Jan, 20

Rogue Male ***½ (1976, Peter O’Toole, John Standing, Alastair Sim, Cyd Hayman, Harold Pinter) – Classic Movie Review 4911

Peter O’Toole is ideally cast and gives a powerful performance as Captain Robert Thorndike, the resourceful, upper-class Englishman who sets out to shoot Adolf Hitler early in 1939. O’Toole gives a strong boost to director Clive Donner’s […]

Jan, 20

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