Derek Winnert

Omen III: The Final Conflict *** (1981, Sam Neill, Rossano Brazzi, Don Gordon, Lisa Harrow, Mason Adams, Robert Arden) – Classic Movie Review 558

In his first feature film, Graham Baker directs the final part of The Omen trilogy in 1981, with the evil Damien Thorn now aged 33 and all set to ensure Christ’s Second Coming won’t happen by […]

Dec, 21 · in Reviews

Scrooge *** (1970, Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans, Kenneth More) – Classic Movie Review 557

‘What the Dickens have they done to Scrooge?… They’ve put him in a big, big musical.’ Well that was risky advertising, huh? Director Ronald Neame’s 1970 movie is quite a jolly musical version of A […]

Dec, 21 · in Reviews

A Christmas Carol **** (1984, George C Scott, Anthony Walters, David Warner, Susannah York, Frank Finlay, Angela Pleasence, Edward Woodward) – Classic Movie Review 556

A stupendous George C Scott pulls all the stops out as Ebenezer Scrooge in this impressive 1984 American movie of Charles Dickens’s much-filmed yarn A Christmas Carol. ‘God bless us, every one!’ (Tiny Tim).  Director […]

Dec, 21

A Christmas Carol **** (1938, Reginald Owen, Ann Rutherford, Lionel Braham, D’Arcy Corrigan, Terry Kilburn, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart, June Lockhart) – Classic Movie Review 555

Reginald Owen gives a tour-de-force as Scrooge in MGM’s treasured 1938 film of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Terry Kilburn is Tiny Tim, and Gene, Kathleen and June Lockhart are the Cratchit family in their […]

Dec, 21

Home Alone **** (1990, Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O’Hara, John Heard, John Candy) – Classic Movie Review 554

The 10-year-old Macaulay Culkin turns on the ingratiating charm as Kevin McCallister in John Hughes’s 1990 mega-moneymaking American Christmas comedy film Home Alone. The 10-year-old Macaulay Culkin turns on the ingratiating charm as Kevin McCallister, a […]

Dec, 20

Funny Face ***** (1957, Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson) – Classic Movie Review 553

Director Stanley Donen’s colourful 1957 musical delight Funny Face stars the mighty Fred Astaire as Dick Avery, a fashion photographer who encounters the pertly cute Jo Stockton (Audrey Hepburn) at his fashion shoot at the […]

Dec, 20

Scrooge [A Christmas Carol] ***** (1951, Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, George Cole, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley) – Classic Movie Review 552

Alastair Sim gives a bravura performance as miserly old skinflint Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1951 seasonal delight Scrooge [A Christmas Carol], the best movie version of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. ‘I believe the world […]

Dec, 20

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