Derek Winnert

The Trench *** (1999, Paul Nicholls, Daniel Craig, Danny Dyer, James D’Arcy) – Classic Movie Review 1406

Screenwriter/director William Boyd adapts his own novel for this 1999 First World War wartime film drama in which a platoon of young British soldiers bicker in a tiny 8ft-wide trench in the last 48 hours […]

Jul, 07 · in Reviews

Day for Night [La nuit américaine] ***** (1973, Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, François Truffaut, Nathalie Baye) – Classic Movie Review 1403

His thirteenth film proves lucky number 13 for François Truffaut as his much-loved 1973 success Day for Night [La Nuit Américaine] represents a huge return to form for him. Co-writer/ director/ star Truffaut’s 1974 Best […]

Jul, 07 · in Reviews

Tremors **** (1990, Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross, Reba McEntire) – Classic Film Review 1402

Director Ron Underwood’s 1990 comedy horror thriller Tremors puts a great big smile on your face. In Underwood’s, S S Wilson’s and Brent Maddock’s witty screenplay, there’s a bunch of pesky, always hungry monster worms […]

Jul, 07

The Man Who Would Be King ***** (1975, Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer) – Classic Film Review 1401

Co-writer/director John Huston’s great 1975 historical adventure unites Sean Connery (as Danny Dravot) with Michael Caine (as Peachy Carnehan), both of them perfectly cast as British army buddies who get elected as deities in 1880s […]

Jul, 07

The Wind and the Lion **** (1975, Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, Brian Keith) – Classic Film Review 1400

Writer-director John Milius’s lusty and violent 1975 semi-historical adventure movie stars Edinburgh-born Sean Connery, who triumphs over a highly strange idea of casting him as Arab chieftain Mulai Ahmed Mohammed er-Raisuli the Magnificent. The Berber […]

Jul, 07

Chariots of Fire ***** (1981, Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Ian Holm, Nigel Havers, Nicholas Farrell, John Gielgud, Lindsay Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 1399

Director Hugh Hudson’s four-Oscar-winning 1981 triumph Chariots of Fire tells the real-life story of two athletes, Scottish missionary Eric Liddell and Jewish Cambridge University undergraduate Harold Abrahams, who ran for Britain in the 1924 Olympics. […]

Jul, 06

A Bridge Too Far **** (1977, Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Elliott Gould, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Hardy Krüger, Laurence Olivier, Ryan O’Neal, Robert Redford, Maximilian Schell, Liv Ullmann) – Classic Movie Review 1.398

Director Richard Attenborough’s intelligent, well-meaning and honourable 1977 epic anti-war film A Bridge Too Far is rousingly staged on a huge canvas. It grasps the nettle of tackling the tricky subject of a military disaster, […]

Jul, 06

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