Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Mr & Mrs Bridge **½ (1990, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Robert Sean Leonard, Margaret Welsh, Kyra Sedgwick, Blythe Danner, Simon Callow, Austin Pendleton, Saundra McClain) – Classic Movie Review 4183

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward star as an unyielding lawyer Walter Bridge and his pliant wife India Bridge in director James Ivory’s 1990 tale of an upper-class Kansas family between World War One and World […]

Aug, 16 · in Reviews

The Couch Trip *** (1988, Dan Aykroyd, Charles Grodin, Walter Matthau) – Classic Movie Review 4182

Director Michael Ritchie’s lively and funny 1988 comedy is packed full of amusing lines and scenes in the well-honed screenplay by Steven Kampmann, Will Porter and Sean Stein, based on the novel by Ken Kolb. […]

Aug, 16 · in Reviews

Downtime * (1997, Paul McGann, Susan Lynch, Tom Georgeson, David Roper) – Classic Movie Review 4184

Paul McGann plays Rob, an ex-police psychiatrist who tries to talk down depressed young woman Chrissy (Susan Lynch), with five-year-old child Jake (Adam Johnston), from chucking herself off the 21st-storey balcony of a Newcastle upon […]

Aug, 16

Downhill Racer *** (1969, Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv) – Classic Movie Review 4181

Director Michael Ritchie’s attractive feature film début is a sharp and involving realist-style look at competitive sport and news-gathering. Downhill Racer is packed full of exciting shots of skiing action, thanks to cameras attached to the […]

Aug, 16

The Childhood of a Leader ***½ (2015, Robert Pattinson, Stacy Martin, Liam Cunningham, Bérénice Bejo, Tom Sweet) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Brady Corbet is all grown up now at the age of 27, and astonishes us with all the imagination and style behind his chilling fable about the rise of fascism in the 20th century. The […]

Aug, 16

Lights Out *** (2016, Teresa Palmer, Gabriel Bateman, Maria Bello) – Movie Review

Here we go again with things that go bump in the night. And I don’t mean the dust cart that wakes me up at 5.30am picking up all the zillions of bottles from the pub […]

Aug, 16

Hold Back the Dawn **** (1941, Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard, Victor Francen, Walter Abel, Curt Bois) – Classic Movie Review 4180

Happily, there is no holding back director Mitchell Leisen’s marvellous 1941 vintage romantic comedy, based securely on a top-flight Billy Wilder-Charles Brackett screenplay (based on the story Memo to a Movie Producer by Ketti Frings) that is […]

Aug, 16

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