Derek Winnert

Calendar Girls ****½ (2003, Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Annette Crosbie, Celia Imrie) – Classic Movie Review 1959

Keep a date with Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Annette Crosbie, Celia Imrie, Penelope Wilton and Linda Bassett as the real-life Yorkshire Women’s Institute ladies who — oh so demurely! — go the full monty for […]

Dec, 14 · in Reviews

Out of Africa **** (1985, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer) – Classic Movie Review 1958

Producer-director Sydney Pollack’s deliriously plush and gorgeous-looking 1985 real-life romantic drama stars beautiful people Meryl Streep and Robert Redford as Danish baroness, plantation owner Karen Blixen and free-spirited big-game hunter Denys Finch Hatton, who fall […]

Dec, 14 · in Reviews

The Out of Towners **** (1970, Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis) – Classic Movie Review 1957

Most Neil Simon movie comedies were written as theatre plays and were then adapted into films, but he wrote this 1970 original The Out of Towners directly for the screen when he realised that it would be […]

Dec, 14

The Out-of-Towners **½ (1999, Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn, John Cleese) – Classic Movie Review 1956

Remember the old Jack Lemmon-Sandy Dennis comedy of 1970? Well, this time in director Sam Weisman’s 1999 comedy it’s Steve Martin’s turn to bicker with his wife Goldie Hawn and endure a series of comic […]

Dec, 14

Out of Time *** (2003, Denzel Washington, Sanaa Lathan, Eva Mendes, Dean Cain) – Classic Movie Review 1955

Director Carl Franklin’s 2003 crime mystery thriller Out of Time reunites him with his Devil in a Blue Dress star, Denzel Washington, who this time plays Matt Whitlock, a Florida small-town police chief suspected of double […]

Dec, 14

Devil in a Blue Dress ****½ (1995, Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals) – Classic Movie Review 1954

Writer-director Carl Franklin’s Chandler-esque 1995 neo-noir whodunit provides a perfect role for Denzel Washington, who is great as 40s LA private eye Easy Rawlins. Based on the novel by Walter Mosley, this is a superbly […]

Dec, 14

The Preacher’s Wife ** (1996, Whitney Houston, Denzel Washington, Courtney B Vance, Gregory Hines) – Classic Movie Review 1953

The 1947 Cary Grant film The Bishop’s Wife is rehashed as a too-cosy and schmaltzy acting-and-gospel-singing vehicle for Whitney Houston in director Penny Marshall’s 1996 heart-warmer. Her co-star Denzel Washington is appealing and charming as […]

Dec, 13

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