Derek Winnert

The Man with the Golden Gun **** (1974, Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams) – Classic Movie Review 1023

Director Guy Hamilton 1974 adventure is the ninth James Bond movie and Roger Moore’s second caper in his series of seven. Christopher Lee is on top form as the Bond villain Scaramanga. Richard Maibaum and […]

Mar, 30 · in Reviews

Live and Let Die **** (1973, Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour, Clifton James, Julius Harris, Geoffrey Holder, Gloria Hendry) – Classic Movie Review 1022

Directed by Guy Hamilton in 1973, Roger Moore’s debut film as British Secret Service agent 007 is one of the best of his series of seven Bond movies. Live and Let Die is the eighth in the Eon […]

Mar, 30 · in Reviews

The Borderlands [Final Prayer] *** (2013, Gordon Kennedy, Robin Hill, Aidan McArdle, Patrick Godfrey) – Movie Review

First-time writer-director Elliot Goldner’s found-footage horror movie focuses on two Catholic priests and an unbelieving techie investigating reports of paranormal activity at a remote country church in the British West Country. Though admittedly I didn’t […]

Mar, 30

Sherlock Holmes in Washington *** (1943, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Marjorie Lord, Henry Daniell, George Zucco, John Archer, Gavin Muir) – Classic Movie Review 1,021

The World War Two-set 1943 mystery adventure film Sherlock Holmes in Washington sees Basil Rathbone’s Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce’s Dr Watson travelling to Washington DC to prevent a secret document from falling into enemy […]

Mar, 30

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death ***½ (1943, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Dennis Hoey, Arthur Margetson, Hillary Brooke) – Classic Film Review 1020

The satisfying and atmospheric 1943 mystery thriller film Sherlock Holmes Faces Death is securely based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1893 short story The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual. It is a welcome return to the […]

Mar, 30

Tomcats *** (2001, Jerry O’Connell, Shannon Elizabeth, Jake Busey) – Classic Movie Review 1019

Game for anything that will raise a laugh, Jerry O’Connell is very amusing in writer-director Gregory Poirier’s wild and wacky 2001 comedy. While artificial and not specially out of the ordinary, it nevertheless remains generally […]

Mar, 30

The Dreamers **** (2003, Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel) – Classic Movie Review 1018

With the help of Gilbert Adair’s sharp, provocative, intelligent and informative yet ultimately poignant screenplay, based on his own novel, director Bernardo Bertolucci returns to the scene of his Last Tango in Paris and this time […]

Mar, 29

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