Derek Winnert

Heavens Above! **** (1963, Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Ian Carmichael, Isabel Jeans) – Classic Movie Review 1859

Malcolm Muggeridge came up with the idea for the Boulting Brothers’ thoughtful and entertaining 1963 satirical comedy film Heavens Above! Peter Sellers tickles the funny bone even in a largely serious performance as the Rev […]

Nov, 20 · in Reviews

Get Santa *** (2014, Jim Broadbent, Rafe Spall, Kit Connor, Warwick Davis) – Movie Review

Okay, then it’s nearly Christmas, and everybody wants to see Jim Broadbent’s Santa Claus – and here it is! The ho-ho-ho jolly Broadbent’s got top billing is the showy, fun role. Broadbent’s a classy actor and […]

Nov, 20 · in Reviews

My Old Lady **** (2014, Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith) – Movie Review

American playwright Israel Horovitz writes the amusing, poignant and charming screenplay and directs this welcome movie based on his 2002 stage play. Kevin Kline and Maggie Smith are both tremendous value as an American who inherits his dad’s apartment in […]

Nov, 20

The Homesman **** (2014, Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, Grace Gummer, Meryl Streep) – Movie Review

Hilary Swank stars as the plain, pious, independent-minded spinster farmer Mary Bee Cuddy, who volunteers to transport three women driven insane by pioneer life across country by covered wagon in the 1850s, when life is nasty, […]

Nov, 19

What We Do in the Shadows *** (2014, Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, Jonathan Brugh) – Movie Review

Taika Waititi, Jonathan Brugh and Jemaine Clement star as Viago, Deacon and Vlad (Jemaine Clement), vampire flatmates living in a suburban semi, in this New Zealand comedy horror mockumentary. Viago is fed up because no one […]

Nov, 19

No Good Deed ** (2014, Idris Elba, Taraji P. Henson, Leslie Bibb) – Movie Review

Idris Elba stars as a handsome and charming but violent and deranged escaped convict called Colin who looks up his cheating wife, then has a car crash in a storm and hoves up at a nearby house […]

Nov, 19

Clash of the Titans **** (1981, Harry Hamlin, Judi Bowker, Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom, Maggie Smith) – Classic Movie Review 1,858

The 1981 epic fantasy adventure film Clash of the Titans is based on the Greek myth of Perseus, stars Harry Hamlin, Judi Bowker, Burgess Meredith, Maggie Smith and Laurence Olivier, and features Ray Harryhausen’s delightful stop-motion visual effects. Director Desmond Davis’s 1981 classical mythology caper film […]

Nov, 19

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