Derek Winnert

The Guns of Navarone ***** (1961, Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 1397

Three cheers for director J Lee Thompson’s famous, stirring, classic 1961 World War Two action/adventure war thriller, based on Alistair MacLean’s 1957 bestselling novel. It follows the fortunes of a team of Allied commando fighters sent to […]

Jul, 05 · in Reviews

The Bridge on the River Kwai ***** (1957, Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa) – Classic Movie Review 1396

Director David Lean’s 1957 dramatisation of Pierre Boulle’s 1952 French novel about the building of a Burma railway bridge under Japanese coercion by British prisoners-of-war is an enduring, magnificent achievement. It won seven Academy Awards, […]

Jul, 05 · in Reviews

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ***** (1966, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis) – Classic Movie Review 1395

Director Mike Nichols brings Edward Albee’s vitriolic, soul-searching 1962 play to the screen in a savage, razor-edged 1966 movie. It sounds like fingernails scraping down a blackboard. You might want to turn away from the […]

Jul, 05

Breathless **** (1983, Richard Gere, Valérie Kaprisky) – Classic Movie Review 1394

Director Jim McBride’s 1983 thriller stars the then young, sexy and underrated Richard Gere, who is on his top 80s form as Jesse Lujack, a preening, unprincipled petty hood on the run after he shoots a policeman. […]

Jul, 05

Gunfight at the OK Corral ***** (1957, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Jo Van Fleet, John Ireland) – Classic Movie Review 1393

In one of their finest Westerns, Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas star together as marshal Wyatt Earp and gunslinger Doc Holliday for director John Sturges’s 1957 classic Gunfight at the OK Corral. It certainly deserves […]

Jul, 04

Here and Now *** (Lauren Johns, Andy Rush) – Movie Review

Lauren Johns stars as mouthy and obnoxious but attractive young London inner-city girl Grace, who is stuck spending a week in the Wye Valley countryside with her arguing parents (Susan Lynch, William Nadylam), who are trying to save […]

Jul, 04

Mr Morgan’s Last Love *** (2013, Michael Caine, Clémence Poésy, Justin Kirk, Gillian Anderson) – Movie Review

Michael Caine gives a memorable, distinguished performance as a retired, widowed American philosophy professor living in Paris whose chance encounter on a bus with a young Parisian woman (Clémence Poésy) turns out to be a life-changing connection. […]

Jul, 04

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