Derek Winnert

Little Women **** (1994, Susan Sarandon, Winona Ryder, Trini Alvarado, Claire Danes, Samantha Mathis, Kirsten Dunst, Christian Bale, Eric Stoltz, Mary Wickes, Gabriel Byrne, John Neville) – Classic Movie Review 419

After several previous famous movie versions, notably the 1933 Little Women with Katharine Hepburn and the 1949 Little Women with Elizabeth Taylor, this is a most attractive, appealing and beautiful-looking 1994 version of Louisa May […]

Nov, 17 · in Reviews

Little Voice **** (1998, Brenda Blethyn, Jane Horrocks, Michael Caine) – Classic Movie Review 418

Written and directed by Mark Herman, this is an uneasy transfer to film of a great night out at London’s National Film Theatre – Jim Cartwright’s musical play The Rise and Fall of Little Voice. […]

Nov, 17 · in Reviews

The Railway Children ***** (1970, Dinah Sheridan, Bernard Cribbins, William Mervyn, Jenny Agutter, Sally Thomsett, Gary Warren) – Classic Movie Review 417

Esteemed character actor Lionel Jeffries turned writer-director for the beloved, ageless 1970 classic British family drama film The Railway Children. What a grand job Jeffries makes of this enduring favourite! With its perennial and universal appeal, it has […]

Nov, 17

Chicago ****½ (2002, Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah) – Classic Movie Review 416

Renée Zellweger (as Roxy Hart) and Catherine Zeta-Jones (as Velma Kelly) are sensational, singing and dancing like grand old troupers, as heartless molls on death row, in director Rob Marshall’s red-hot, six Oscar-winning movie of Fred […]

Nov, 17

Life Is Beautiful [La vita è bella] ***** (1997, Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Marisa Paredes, Horst Buchholz) – Classic Movie Review 415

This triple-Oscar-winning 1999 Italian movie is a triumph for its mastermind, Roberto Benigni, who walked off with the Best Actor Oscar and the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar as its director. One for each end […]

Nov, 17

The Living Daylights **** (1987 Timothy Dalton, Maryam d’Abo, Jeroen Krabbé) – Classic Movie Review 414

Playing it more like the James Bond of Ian Fleming’s novels, Timothy Dalton made his excellent debut as a tough-as-nails, no-nonsense Bond in John Glen’s exciting 1987 007 film. This time round, as well as […]

Nov, 17

Licence to Kill **** (1989, Timothy Dalton, Robert Davi, Carey Lowell) – Classic Movie Review 413

In his second, and it turned out sadly last, outing as a no-nonsense James Bond after The Living Daylights, Timothy Dalton looks entirely comfortable and settled in the role in the 18th Bond movie from […]

Nov, 17

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