Derek Winnert

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace **** (1999, Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman) – Classic Movie Review 213

In 1999 the long wait was finally over as writer-producer-director George Lucas embarks on the first episode of his always-planned second trilogy, as a prequel to the original 1977 Star Wars and set 32 years […]

Sep, 02 · in Reviews

Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones **** (2002, Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor) – Classic Movie Review 212

Hayden Christensen takes over in 2002 as the grown-up Anakin Skywalker in director George Lucas’s fighting-fit Episode II. But the handsome newbie seems a bit like a little boy lost. Anakin falls for the lovely […]

Sep, 02 · in Reviews

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith **** (2005, Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor) – Classic Movie Review 211

Co-writer/director George Lucas’s 2005 final second trilogy series episode Revenge of the Sith bridges the gap back to 1977’s original Star Wars – and what a thrilling, gleaming rollercoaster ride of amazing non-stop action it […]

Sep, 02

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope ***** (1977, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness, Peter Cushing, Kenny Baker, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, David Prowse) – Classic Movie Review 210

‘A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…’ ‘May the Force be with you.’ Star Wars blew like a breath of fresh air across cinema screens in 1977. Audiences were blown away being […]

Sep, 01

Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ***** (1964, Peter Sellers, George C Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Peter Bull, Slim Pickens) – Classic Movie Review 209

Peter Sellers is hysterical three times over in the 1964 film Dr Strangelove. Stanley Kubrick’s chillingly hilarious satire from the terrifying Sixties Cold War era seems as brilliant and relevant as ever. Based on Peter […]

Sep, 01

Dr No ***** (1962, Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Anthony Dawson, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Eunice Gayson, Zena Marshall, Jack Lord) – Classic Movie Review 208

British Secret Service agent 007 makes his epoch-making debut in Dr No in 1962. A fresh-faced, youngish-looking, lean and lithe Sean Connery (aged 32) makes his spy début confidently and charismatically in the role he will always […]

Aug, 31

Oklahoma! ***** (1955, Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Gloria Grahame, Rod Steiger, Gene Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 207

Director Fred Zinnemann’s 1955 evergreen classic musical is the absolutely glorious, definitive movie of the 1943 Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II hit show, imaginatively filmed by cinematographer Robert Surtees in Todd-AO widescreen and Technicolor […]

Aug, 31

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