Derek Winnert

Cottage To Let [Bombsight Stolen] **** (1941, Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim, John Mills, George Cole, Jeanne De Casalis, Michael Wilding) – Classic Movie Review 2785

Director Anthony Asquith’s 1941 British movie stars George Cole, in his film debut at 16 as Ronald, a young cockney who is evacuated to a Scottish village, always a hotbed of Nazis in the movies […]

Aug, 07 · in Uncategorized

Max *** (2015, Josh Wiggins, Thomas Haden Church, Lauren Graham, Luke Kleintank, Jay Hernandez, Robbie Amell, Mia Xitlali, Dejon LaQuake) – Movie Review

It’s hard to imagine a movie whose concept is Lassie meets Coming Home, but here it is. It’s better to think of it as a boy and his dog movie. You’d have to have a […]

Aug, 06 · in Uncategorized

The Gift **** (2015, Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall, Joel Edgerton) – Movie Review

Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall stars as youngish married couple Simon and Robyn, whose life goes spiralling into meltdown after a chance encounter with Simon’s old high school acquaintance Gordo (Joel Edgerton). Initially, Simon doesn’t even recognise Gordo at […]

Aug, 06

Captain Webb *** (2015, Warren Brown, Steve Oram, Georgia Maguire, Terry Mynott, Hannah Tointon) – Movie Review

Warren Brown captures exactly the right note as retired merchant seaman Captain Matthew Webb, who on 25 August 1875 survives fierce winds, treacherous currents and multiple jellyfish stings to swim from Dover to the shores […]

Aug, 06

Fantastic Four [FANT4STIC] ** (2015, Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B Jordan, Jamie Bell, Toby Kebbell, Reg E Cathey, Tim Blake Nelson) – Movie Review

The 2015 reboot Marvel Comics superhero film Fantastic Four [FANT4STIC] was a critical and box-office failure and won Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Director and Picture.  It is ten years since the first Fantastic Four (2005) and eight since Fantastic 4: Rise of […]

Aug, 06

Work is a Four-Letter Word * (1968, David Warner, Cilla Black, Elizabeth Spriggs, Zia Mohyeddin, Alan Howard, David Waller) – Classic Movie Review 2783

Henry Livings’s award-winning absurdist play Eh? about giant magic mushrooms gets a livelier title and the then Sixties pop princess Cilla Black, plus a classy star in David Warner, posh theatre director in Peter Hall and […]

Aug, 05

The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb ** (1964, Terence Morgan, Ronald Howard, Fred Clark, Jeanne Roland, Jack Gwillim, George Pastell, John Paul) – Classic Movie Review 2,784

Michael Carreras’s 1964 Hammer horror The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb is the first sequel to their 1959 film The Mummy, and stars Terence Morgan as the villain, Ronald Howard as the hero, and Fred […]

Aug, 05

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