Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Quest for Love *** (1971, Joan Collins, Tom Bell, Denholm Elliott) – Classic Movie Review 9648

Director Ralph Thomas’s 1971 Quest for Love tells a fascinating sci-fi yarn based on John (The Midwich Cuckoos) Wyndham’s 1954 short story Random Quest, with a screenplay by Terence Feely. Tom Bell stars as Colin […]

Apr, 18 · in Reviews

Century ** (1993, Charles Dance, Clive Owen, Miranda Richardson, Robert Stephens, Joan Hickson) – Classic Movie Review 9647

Writer-director Stephen Poliakoff ambitiously tries to dig out the roots of the 20th century in the year 1899 (race, religion, feminism) in his 1993 drama film Century, in which young doctor Paul Reisner (Clive Owen) […]

Apr, 18 · in Reviews

Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side **** (1992, Joan Hickson, Claire Bloom, Barry Newman) – Classic Movie Review 9,646

Alas, all good things have to come to an end. The splendid Joan Hickson takes on her 12th and final case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, in the 1992 TV mystery film The Mirror Crack’d […]

Apr, 17

F/X2: The Deadly Art of Illusion [F/X2] *** (1991, Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, Rachel Ticotin) – Classic Movie Review 9645

Director Richard Franklin’s 1991 complicated action thriller F/X2: The Deadly Art of Illusion [F/X2] stars Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy and Rachel Ticotin. In a surprise, belated sequel to 1986’s F/X – Murder by Illusion, Bryan […]

Apr, 17

F/X – Murder by Illusion [F/X] *** (1986, Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, Diane Venora) – Classic Movie Review 9644

Director Robert Mandel’s bright, pacey 1986 thriller F/X – Murder by Illusion [F/X] has a lot of lively action, and, yes, lots of special effects. Bryan Brown stars as Rollie Tyler, a film special effects […]

Apr, 17

Gorky Park *** (1983, William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Brian Dennehy, Ian Bannen, Joanna Pacula) – Classic Movie Review 9643

Director Michael Apted’s 1983 Gorky Park stars William Hurt, Lee Marvin and Brian Dennehy, who are all excellent in this sombre, well-crafted and at least half-decent thriller, scripted from Martin Cruz Smith’s bestseller by controversial […]

Apr, 17

Best Seller [Hard Cover] **** (1987, James Woods, Brian Dennehy, Victoria Tennant) – Classic Movie Review 9642

Director John Flynn’s 1987 thriller Best Seller [Hard Cover] stars Brian Dennehy in an unusual cosy performance as Dennis Meechum, a cop-turned-author who survives a violent robbery and remembers the appearance of one of his […]

Apr, 17

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