Derek Winnert

Fabian of the Yard *** (1954, Bruce Seton, Sarah Churchill, Richard Pearson, Gwen Cherrell, Diana Beaumont, Margaret Boyd) – Classic Movie Review 4595

Director Edward Thompson and co-director/ producer Antony Beauchamp’s 1954 British police procedural thriller stars Bruce Seton as the real-life Scotland Yard Superintendent Robert Fabian. Taken from Fabian’s autobiographical book of memoirs, this trio of stories from […]

Nov, 06 · in Uncategorized

Bridget Jones’s Baby *** (2016, Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey, Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent, Emma Thompson) – Movie Review

Bridget Jones’s Baby are three words to strike terror in some movie goers, but this old-fashioned romp is surprisingly amusing, likeable and genial, a few casual stereotypes and bad attitudes apart. Really, it is not […]

Nov, 05 · in Uncategorized

Planes, Trains and Automobiles **** (1987, Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins, Michael McKean, Kevin Bacon, Dylan Baker) – Classic Movie Review 4594

Writer-director John Hughes’s classy 1987 holiday road movie comedy memorably pairs Steve Martin with John Candy. Martin stars as straightlaced advertising marketing executive Neal Page, struggling to speed home for Thanksgiving, who finds he cannot […]

Nov, 05

Train of Events *** (1949, Valerie Hobson, John Clements, Jack Warner, Gladys Henson, Peter Finch, Irina Baronova, Susan Shaw, Patric Doonan, Joan Dowling, Laurence Payne, Mary Morris, John Gregson, Leslie Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 4,593

Ealing Studios’ 1949 British portmanteau film flashes back to reveal four of the passengers’ stories as a London to Liverpool-bound train heads for a crash into a stalled petrol tanker at a level crossing. Ealing […]

Nov, 05

The Train Robbers *** (1973, John Wayne, Ann-Margret, Rod Taylor, Ben Johnson, Bobby Vinton) – Classic Movie Review 4592

Burt Kennedy, the script-writer of Budd Boetticher’s classic Fifties Westerns, wrote and directed this 1973 Western for a rather plump and elderly-looking John Wayne, who, as gunhand Lane, leads a gang taken on by worthy […]

Nov, 05

The Accountant ***½ (2016, Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal) – Movie Review

Director Gavin O’Connor’s 2016 crime action drama is distinctly odd and a bit patchy, but it is definitely intriguing, interesting and entertaining overall. Ben Affleck stars in a grim, literally monotonous performance as The Accountant – […]

Nov, 04

Rupture ***½ (2016, Noomi Rapace, Michael Chiklis, Peter Stormare, Lesley Manville, Kerry Bishé) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Steven Shainberg’s 2016 movie is really good stuff, engrossing and original, pitched successfully somewhere between a thriller, sci-fi and a horror movie. So it is satisfyingly different from your average chiller movie. Noomi Rapace […]

Nov, 04

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