Derek Winnert

The Spy Who Loved Me **** (1977, Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curd Jürgens, Richard Kiel, Caroline Munro) – Classic Movie Review 405

The tenth Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, made in 1977, is exuberantly entertaining and one of the high spots of Roger Moore’s enjoyable seven-movie reign as 007. Moore gives a supremely suave and […]

Nov, 15 · in Reviews

GoldenEye *** (1995, Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco, Famke Janssen) – Classic Movie Review 404

In 1995, Pierce Brosnan steps suavely into 007’s shoes, after a six-year gap in James Bond movies since Licence To Kill. The 17th Bond film GoldenEye is a busy, excitingly entertaining action adventure that proved […]

Nov, 14 · in Reviews

Goldfinger ***** (1964, Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe, Honor Blackman, Shirley Eaton, Harold Sakata, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn, Tania Mallet) – Classic Movie Review 403

‘My name is Pussy Galore’. – Pussy Galore. ‘I must be dreaming’. – James Bond. German star Gert Frobe (1913-88) proves as ideal a villain as Auric Goldfinger as Sean Connery is a hero as […]

Nov, 14

From Russia with Love ***** (1963, Sean Connery, Robert Shaw, Lotte Lenya, Daniela Bianchi, Pedro Armendáriz, Eunice Gayson, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn) – Classic Movie Review 402

‘Meet James Bond. His new incredible women. His new incredible enemies. His new incredible adventures.’ Following the huge success of Dr No in 1962, the second 007 spy film From Russia with Love is more […]

Nov, 14

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom – Film Review

It’s tricky to bring the Nelson Mandela story to the screen, thanks to its complex, awkward issues, both personal and political, and to the long saga-length narrative it involves. Nevertheless William Nicholson manages it convincingly […]

Nov, 14

Barry Lyndon **** (1975, Ryan O’Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Murray Melvin, Steven Berkoff) – Classic Movie Review 401

Ryan O’Neal gets by on screen presence and charisma, despite his odd casting as the roguish Irish farm boy turned adventurer, in Stanley Kubrick’s 1975 extraordinary labour of love period drama film Barry Lyndon. Stanley […]

Nov, 13

The Hitcher ***** (1986, Rutger Hauer, C Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh) – Classic Movie Review 400

Director Robert Harmon’s awesome 1986 cult psycho horror thriller The Hitcher is a gruesomely terrifying thrill ride. It takes as tenacious a hold on the minds and sensibilities of the audience as its villain Rutger Hauer […]

Nov, 13

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