Derek Winnert

The Browning Version ** (1994, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon, Matthew Modine, Julian Sands, Greta Scacchi, Ben Silverstone, Maryam D’Abo) – Classic Movie Review 4013

Albert Finney tries very hard in director Mike Figgis’s completely unwanted 1994 remake of The Browning Version, the fine 1951 film version of Terence Rattigan’s touching one-act play. It is now way out of its time, […]

Jul, 13 · in Uncategorized

The Browning Version **** (1951, Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Nigel Patrick, Wilfrid Hyde White, Bill Travers, Ronald Howard, Peter Jones, Sarah Lawson) – Classic Movie Review 4,012

Anthony Asquith’s 1951 British drama film The Browning Version is based on the 1948 play by Terence Rattigan and stars Michael Redgrave as an ageing classics master at an English public school forced into retirement […]

Jul, 13 · in Reviews

Bruce Almighty ***½ (2003, Jim Carrey, Jennifer Aniston, Morgan Freeman, Philip Baker Hall, Catherine Bell, Lisa Ann Walter, Steve Carell, Nora Dunn) – Classic Movie Review 4011

Jim Carrey is back on track in director Tom Shadyac’s 2003 comedy as Bruce Nolan, a troubled Buffalo New York TV reporter who gets fired, mugged and rows with his girlfriend, Grace (Jennifer Aniston). There is only […]

Jul, 13

The Electric Horseman *** (1979, Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Valerie Perrine, Willie Nelson, John Saxon, Allan Arbus, Wilford Brimley) – Classic Movie Review 4010

Director Sydney Pollack teams up with Robert Redford again in 1979 for an interesting, if weird mix of modern-day Western, media satire and populist romanticism. It teams Redford with Jane Fonda, his 1967 co-star in Barefoot in […]

Jul, 13

Brubaker *** (1980, Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith, Morgan Freeman, Tim McIntire, M Emmet Walsh, Wilford Brimley, Matt Clark, Albert Salmi) – Classic Movie Review 4,009

Robert Redford stars as a reforming prison warden in the liberal-minded 1980 real-life thriller film Brubaker. Director Stuart Rosenberg’s liberal-minded 1980 real-life thriller vehicle for Robert Redford is a well-meaning, sincerely done but sombre, unexciting […]

Jul, 13

Lady in a Cage **** (1964, Olivia de Havilland, James Caan, Ann Sothern, Jeff Corey, Jennifer Billingsley, Rafael Campos, Scatman Crothers) – Classic Movie Review 4008

Director Walter Grauman’s excellent 1964 thriller is tough, gripping and scary. It finds Olivia de Havilland well cast and on good form as Mrs Cornelia Hilyard, a wealthy widowed invalid authoress trapped a dozen feet short […]

Jul, 12

The Taking of Pelham 123 ****½ (1974, Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo, Earl Hindman, Jerry Stiller, Tony Roberts, James Broderick, Kenneth McMillan) – Classic Movie Review 4,007

The super-charged 1974 action crime thriller film The Taking of Pelham 123 is the real deal. Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam and Hector Elizondo are irreplaceable.  It has been remade twice, but director Joseph […]

Jul, 12

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