Derek Winnert

Leave Her to Heaven ***** (1945, Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Darryl Hickman) – Classic Movie Review 663

Oscar-nominated Gene Tierney is enthralling as a crazy young socialite called Ellen Berent in John M Stahl’s film noir thriller Leave Her to Heaven (1945). Capturing the eye and the emotions at the height of […]

Jan, 10 · in Reviews

The Time Machine *** (2002, Guy Pearce, Yancey Arias, Mark Addy, Phyllida Law, Samantha Mumba, Jeremy Irons, Orlando Jones) – Classic Movie Review 662

Guy Pearce stars as haunted-looking Victorian scientist and inventor Alexander Hartdegen who, after his wife is killed, travels in his machine through time in search of her. Remaking the much-loved 1960 version by George Pal, The […]

Jan, 10 · in Reviews

The Time Machine **** (1960, Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux) – Classic Movie Review 661

After successfully producing the 1953 version of H G Wells’s novel The War of the Worlds, George Pal profitably returns to the great author’s work to direct this entertaining and imaginative movie from Wells’s other […]

Jan, 10

Layer Cake **** (2004, Daniel Craig, Kenneth Cranham, Michael Gambon, Sienna Miller, Sally Hawkins, Nathalie Lunghi) – Classic Movie Review 660

Daniel Craig stars as a London-based criminal who wants to quit the cocaine business, in debut director Matthew Vaughn’s better-than-most 2004 British crime film Layer Cake. Another day, another Brit crime thriller, but this one […]

Jan, 10

Gangster No 1 ** (2000, Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis, Paul Bettany, Saffron Burrows, Kenneth Cranham, Jamie Foreman, Eddie Marsan) – Classic Movie Review 659

A ruthless middle-aged English hoodlum reflects on his life of crime, and how he rose from young hardman in small-time crime in Swinging 60’s London to being boss of the gang. This repellently bloodsoaked British gangster […]

Jan, 09

Rebel Without a Cause ***** (1955, James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo) – Classic Movie Review 658

James Dean gives a mesmerisingly exciting and touching performance as alienated youth Jim Stark, in the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause, based on an original story by the film’s director Nicholas Ray. With his […]

Jan, 09

The Railway Man *** (2013, Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine, Stellan Skarsgård) – Movie Review

Based on his autobiography, this is the upsetting and honourable true story about Englishman Eric Lomax, one of thousands of Allied prisoners working like slaves on the construction of the Thai/Burma ‘Death Railway’ during World War […]

Jan, 09

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