Derek Winnert

Jimmy’s Hall *** (2014, dir Ken Loach) – Movie Review

Barry Ward stars as real-life Irish communist political activist Jimmy Gralton, who is deported from Ireland during the country’s ‘Red Scare’ of the 1930s. Ward is excellent but Jim Norton is even better as his nemesis, Father Sheridan, […]

May, 30 · in Reviews

Maleficent *** (2014, Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley, Imelda Staunton, Lesley Manville, Juno Temple, Sam Riley, Brenton Thwaites, Kenneth Cranham) – Movie Review

Walt Disney remakes its 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty as a lively 3D live action adventure that’s aimed more at teens than tots who’d find it too scary. There’s nothing scarier in it than Angelina […]

May, 29 · in Reviews

The Portrait of a Lady **** (1996, Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich) – Classic Movie Review 1264

Director Jane Campion’s 1996 period drama literary adaptation is a chilly but excellent version of the Henry James novel, set in 1870s England. Everything about it is extremely plush, subtle, expert and just right. Nicole […]

May, 28

Mrs Dalloway **** (1997, Vanessa Redgrave, John Standing, Margaret Tyzack, Phyllis Calvert, Michael Kitchen, Natascha McElhone, Rupert Graves) – Classic Movie Review 1263

Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Well, not Vanessa Redgrave, who in 1997 at long last finds a part worthy of her again as Mrs Clarissa Dalloway, a middle-aged English socialite reflecting on her safe, comfortable […]

May, 28

Dirty Harry ***** (1971, Clint Eastwood, Andrew Robinson, Harry Guardino, John Vernon, Reni Santoni, John Larch, John Mitchum) – Classic Movie Review 1,262

Don Siegel’s 1971 police thriller film Dirty Harry is arguably Clint Eastwood’s most famous movie, and certainly one of his best films. Lalo Schifrin contributes one of his finest scores. ‘I know what you’re thinking. […]

May, 27

Only Angels Have Wings ***** (1939, Cary Grant, Rita Hayworth, Jean Arthur) – Classic Movie Review 1261

Director Howard Hawks’s 1939 high-flying classic stars Cary Grant as Geoff Carter, a pilot and the manager of Barranca Airways, a tatty airmail and freight service working out of Ecuador. The small, barely solvent air […]

May, 27

Sylvia Scarlett **** (1935, Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Edmund Gwenn)) – Classic Movie Review 1,260

George Cukor’s 1935 romantic comedy adventure film Sylvia Scarlett stars Katharine Hepburn the title role of a female con artist who disguises herself as a boy to escape the police.  Director George Cukor’s 1935 romantic […]

May, 27

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