Derek Winnert

Brief Encounter ***** (1945, Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Cyril Raymond, Joyce Carey, Stanley Holloway, Everley Gregg, Irene Handl, Alfie Bass) – Classic Movie Review 167

‘You’ve been a long way away.’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Thank you for coming back to me.’ David Lean’s superb 1945 film of Noël Coward’s famous tearjerker is a much loved, much admired, much enjoyed classic. Taking the […]

Aug, 17 · in Reviews

Gladiator ***** (2000, Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris, Connie Nielsen) – Classic Movie Review 166

Best-actor Academy Award winner Russell Crowe powers this brilliant five-Oscar-winning Roman epic, a real man’s man movie. Ridley Scott’s astounding gladiator movie won the 2001 Best Picture award at the Oscars. A glorious throwback to […]

Aug, 16 · in Reviews

Oliver Twist ***** (1948, Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, John Howard Davies) – Classic Movie Review 165

Director David Lean’s richly entertaining 1948 movie adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic Oliver Twist is still by far the best attempt to put the book on screen. Though he was accused of anti-Semitism in […]

Aug, 15

Double Indemnity ***** (1944, Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G Robinson) – Classic Movie Review 164

Co-writer-director Billy Wilder’s 1944 black and white film noir thriller milestone Double Indemnity still plays beautifully whether on late-night TV or on cinema revivals. Hugely admired and much imitated, it is a sizzling movie masterpiece. […]

Aug, 15

American Beauty ***** (1999, Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Chris Cooper, Allison Janney, Peter Gallagher) – Classic Movie Review 163

Kevin Spacey won the best actor Oscar for his stupendous performance as Lester Burnham, an American middle-class married man undergoing a middle-aged crisis, in the superb 1999 film American Beauty. Kevin Spacey won the best […]

Aug, 15

Sweet Smell of Success ***** (1957, Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison) – Classic Movie Review 162

‘I’d hate to take a bite out of you, you’re a cookie full of arsenic.’ Director Alexander ‘Sandy’ Mackendrick’s no-holds-barred portrait of ruthless New York gossip columnists was a critical and box office flop in […]

Aug, 15

Mystery Men **** (1999, Geoffrey Rush, Greg Kinnear, Ben Stiller, Janeane Garofalo, William H Macy, Hank Azaria, Kel Mitchell, Paul Reubens, Wes Studi) – Classic Movie Review 161

The seven Mystery Men come to the rescue after the incredibly wicked Casanova Frankenstein (Geoffrey Rush) seizes his amazingly nice nemesis, Captain Amazing (Greg Kinnear). Capt Amazing, aka Lance, has foolishly released Frankenstein from captivity so […]

Aug, 15

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