Derek Winnert

The Golden Bowl **** (2000, Nick Nolte, Uma Thurman, Jeremy Northam, Kate Beckinsale, Anjelica Huston, James Fox, Madeleine Potter, Nicholas Day, Peter Eyre, Nickolas Grace) – Classic Movie Review 1,217

Nick Nolte is brilliant in producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory’s splendid, intense, beautifully realised 2000 film version of the classic novel by Henry James, The Golden Bowl. Nick Nolte is brilliant in producer […]

May, 15 · in Reviews

Nixon *** (1995, Anthony Hopkins, Bob Hoskins, Joan Allen, Powers Booth, Ed Harris, E G Marshall, David Paymer, Paul Sorvino, Mary Steenburgen, J T Walsh, James Woods) – Classic Movie Review 1216

Co-writer/director Oliver Stone tackles the tarnished President Richard Nixon in his fascinating but flawed 1995 biopic and real-life drama. In an idiosyncratic portrait, Nixon is shown as a foul-mouthed, emotionally crippled drunkard. Anthony Hopkins, a […]

May, 15 · in Reviews

Godzilla *** (2014, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Bryan Cranston, Elizabeth Olsen, David Strathairn, Juliette Binoche) – Movie Review

The 355-ft fire-breathing Japanese lizard is back, and so is wide-eyed, constantly frowning 5ft 11in Aaron Taylor-Johnson as a US naval officer in San Francisco who goes to Japan to help his troubled scientist dad […]

May, 15

Paradise Road *** (1997, Glenn Close, Frances McDormand, Pauline Collins, Cate Blanchett) – Classic Film Review 1215

Remember Tenko, the BBC prison camp series that ran from 1981-84? Well, if you were one of the millions hooked on that one, you’ll also want to catch Paradise Road, dubbed the big-screen Tenko. Writer-director […]

May, 14

X-Men: Days of Future Past *** (2014, Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Halle Berry, Evan Peters, Peter Dinklage, Nicholas Hoult, Shawn Ashmore, Anna Paquin, Ellen Page, Lucas Till) – Movie Review

Director Bryan Singer returns after a long gap following his first two X-Men movies for what is billed as ‘the ultimate X-Men ensemble’. That’s enough to get hearts racing out of control among the squillions […]

May, 14

Carry On Teacher ** (1959, Kenneth Connor, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims) – Classic Film Review 1214

Director Gerald Thomas’s 1959 film is the third Carry On movie, whose high spirits are a bit held back by having an old-fashioned, all-too-conventional story. Still no doubt rooted in the 50s, the film has […]

May, 14

Carry On Nurse **** (1959, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor, Bill Owen, Irene Handl, June Whitfield, Leslie Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 1213

One of the most successful and best of the Carry On movies, director Gerald Thomas’s Carry On Nurse was Britain’s top money-maker in 1959. Kenneth Connor, Kenneth Williams and Wilfrid Hyde White star as broken-wristed […]

May, 14

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