Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

An Englishman in New York **** (2009, John Hurt, Denis O’Hare, Jonathan Tucker, Swoosie Kurtz, Cynthia Nixon) – Classic Movie Review 12,773

John Hurt stars in the absolutely fabulous 2009 biographical film An Englishman in New York, chronicling gay English writer Quentin Crisp’s later life years in New York City after his move from London in the […]

Dec, 31 · in Uncategorized

Danger by My Side * (1962, Anthony Oliver, Maureen Connell, Alan Tilvern, Bill Nagy) – Classic Movie Review 12,772

Butcher’s Film Services film Danger by My Side is a watchable if largely unremarkable British Sixties support-feature detective crime drama. Maureen Connell is pleasant company. Director Charles Saunders’s 1962 Butcher’s Film Services film Danger by […]

Dec, 31 · in Uncategorized

Gaolbreak ** (1962, Peter Reynolds, Avice Landone, David Kernan, Carol White) – Classic Movie Review 12,771

Director Francis Searle’s interesting if routine 1962 British crime B-movie Gaolbreak stars Peter Reynolds, Avice Landone, David Kernan and Carol White. Avice Landone plays Mrs Wallis, a mother with two criminal sons, Eddie (Peter Reynolds) […]

Dec, 31

The Man I Love [L’homme que j’aime] *** (1997, Jean-Michel Portal, Marcial Di Fonzo Bo, Mathilde Seigner, Vittoria Scognamiglio) – Classic Movie Review 12,770

The 1997 French film The Man I Love [L’homme que j’aime] follows an attractive bitter-sweet love story between two Frenchmen who meet while working at a Marseilles swimming pool. The openly gay Marseilles swimming pool […]

Dec, 30

Saltburn ** (2023, Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Archie Madekwe, Rosamund Pike, Richard E Grant, Alison Oliver) – Classic Movie Review 12,769

The 2023 black comedy drama film Saltburn is plenty salty but it could give you heartburn. Barry Keoghan throws himself body and soul into the 2023 black comedy drama film Saltburn as a poor Oxford […]

Dec, 29

North Dallas Forty **** (1979, Nick Nolte, Mac Davis, Charles Durning, Dayle Haddon, Bo Swenson, G D Spradlin, Dabney Coleman, Steve Forrest) – Classic Movie Review 12,768

Director Ted Kotcheff’s 1979 film North Dallas Forty stars Nick Nolte, who gives a bravura turn as the American football pro caught up in a complicated tangle of rigged games, macho attitudes, drug abuse, crazy […]

Dec, 28

The Story of Shirley Yorke ** (1948, Derek Farr, Dinah Sheridan, Margaretta Scott) – Classic Movie Review 12,767

The wildly melodramatic 1948 British thriller film The Story of Shirley Yorke stars Derek Farr, Dinah Sheridan, and Margaretta Scott. It is a fairly amusing curio based on an antique hit play. Director Maclean Rogers’s […]

Dec, 28

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