Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Paul Temple’s Triumph ** (1950, John Bentley, Dinah Sheridan, Barbara Couper, Hugh Dempster, Dino Galvani) – Classic Movie Review 4486

John Bentley effectively re-creates his role as novelist-sleuth Paul Temple in director Maclean Rogers’s twisty low budget 1950 British mystery thriller based on Francis Durbridge’s radio serial News of Paul Temple. This time Temple, along […]

Oct, 18 · in Reviews

Paul Temple Returns [Bombay Waterfront] ** (1952, John Bentley, Patricia Dainton, Peter Gawthorne, Valentine Dyall, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 4,485

John Bentley again plays novelist-sleuth Paul Temple, who this time investigates a series of gruesome murders by a mysterious serial killer known as The Marquis, in the 1952 British thriller film Paul Temple Returns. John […]

Oct, 18 · in Reviews

Friends *** (1971, Sean Bury, Anicée Alvina, Toby Robins, Ronald Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 4484

Director Lewis Gilbert’s 1971 teen romance Friends about two love-struck youngsters escaping to a secluded hideaway home to have a baby is a tasteful and pleasant film if perhaps sometimes rather vapid and dreary. Sean Bury […]

Oct, 18

Paul and Michelle *** (1974, Anicée Alvina, Sean Bury, Keir Dullea, Ronald Lewis, Toby Robins, Catherine Allégret) – Classic Movie Review 4483

Paul Harrison (Sean Bury) and Michelle Latour (Anicée Alvina) return as the good-looking youngsters who have run off from their adults to try to enjoy their true love, in producer-director Lewis Gilbert’s welcome 1974 sequel […]

Oct, 18

Patty Hearst *** (1988, Natasha Richardson, William Forsythe, Ving Rhames, Frances Fisher, Jodi Long) – Classic Movie Review 4482

Director Paul Schrader’s 1988 drama tells the astonishing, and uniquely troubling story of Patty Hearst, the American newspaper heiress who was kidnapped in Berkeley, California, by Symbionese Liberation Army terrorists on February 4 1974 before […]

Oct, 18

Hunt for the Wilderpeople **** (2016, Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata) – Movie Review

Julian Dennison and Sam Neill have great rapport as a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush, prompting a national manhunt. Defiant young city kid Ricky Baker and cantankerous […]

Oct, 17

Brimstone **** (2016, Guy Pearce, Dakota Fanning, Kit Harington, Carice van Houten) – Movie Review

Guy Pearce (now 49) has a grand old time as The Reverend, the apparently unstoppable vengeful preacher villain of Dutch writer-director Martin Koolhoven’s incredibly powerful, awe-inspiring epic 2016 Western. The movie is a real wow! So is […]

Oct, 17

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