Derek Winnert

X + Y ***½ (2104, Asa Butterfield, Rafe Spall, Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Jo Yang) – Movie Review

X + Y = a really rather good spirit-lifting British movie. It is spurred on to win by a lovely performance by Asa Butterfield as Nathan, a socially awkward English teenage maths prodigy who lands a […]

Mar, 11 · in Reviews

Suite Française *** (2014, Michelle Williams, Kristin Scott Thomas, Matthias Schoenaerts) – Movie Review

Montana-born Michelle Williams stars as Lucille Angellier, a young, attractive French villager who is living trapped in a stifled existence with her unpleasant and controlling mother-in-law Madame Angellier (Kristin Scott Thomas) while they await news […]

Mar, 11 · in Reviews

Run all Night ***½ (2015, Liam Neeson, Ed Harris, Joel Kinnaman, Boyd Holbrook) – Movie Review

Cast as long-time New York mobster pals, Liam Neeson and Ed Harris bring style, conviction and huge acting talent to an otherwise fairly average chase-movie action thriller. They might be slumming it, but what a difference real […]

Mar, 11

The File on Thelma Jordon ***** (1949, Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Paul Kelly, Joan Tetzel, Stanley Ridges, Richard Rober) – Classic Movie Review 2,255

Robert Siodmak’s marvellous, ultra-tense 1949 film noir thriller The File on Thelma Jordon stars Barbara Stanwyck as the femme fatale in love with a jewel thief (Richard Rober). Wendell Corey co-stars as hard-drinking, unhappily married […]

Mar, 11

Quiz Show *** (1994, Ralph Fiennes, John Turturro, Paul Scofield, Rob Morrow) – Classic Movie Review 2254

Director Robert Redford conscientiously probes the circumstances, characters and issues surrounding the scandal attached to American TV’s rigging of the then famous 1950s quiz show Twenty One. It was so popular that fifty million people watched […]

Mar, 11

Quo Vadis? **** (1951, Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov, Patricia Laffan, Finlay Currie, Abraham Sofaer) – Classic Movie Review 2253

MGM’s plush and lavish 1951 Technicolor biblical epic blockbuster film Quo Vadis? stars Robert Taylor and Deborah Kerr, as the crazed Emperor Nero (Peter Ustinov) fiddles while Rome burns, chariots race, armies march and lions […]

Mar, 11

The Egyptian * (1954, Edmund Purdom, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Peter Ustinov, Gene Tierney) – Classic Movie Review 2252

For this 1954 movie set in a before-Christ era 18th-dynasty Egypt, a wan-seeming Edmund Purdom replaced Marlon Brando as Sinuhe, a poor orphan boy who becomes a brilliant physician. And, accompanied by his friend Horemheb […]

Mar, 11

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