Derek Winnert

For Queen & Country *** (1988, Denzel Washington, Dorian Healy, Sean Chapman) – Classic Movie Review 9680

American star Denzel Washington comes to the UK to play a working-class soldier from an inner London council estate in Brixton, who, on his return from the Falklands War, finds that nobody wants to give […]

Apr, 27 · in Reviews

Caught on a Train **** (1980, Peggy Ashcroft, Michael Kitchen, Wendy Raebeck) – Classic Movie Review 9679

Director Peter Duffell’s riveting 1980 Caught on a Train stars Peggy Ashcroft as Frau Messner, an imperious Austrian lady who terrifies young Briton Peter (Michael Kitchen) on an overnight train passing through Germany, in writer […]

Apr, 26 · in Uncategorized

Defending Your Life *** (1991, Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, Lee Grant) – Classic Movie Review 9678

The 1991 film Defending Your Life is an amiable, hit-and-miss romantic fantasy comedy drama from multi-talented writer-director Albert Brooks, in which he also stars. The star’s character Daniel Miller is killed in a car crash […]

Apr, 26

Defence of the Realm [Defense of the Realm] **** (1985, Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, Denholm Elliott, Ian Bannen, Fulton Mackay, Bill Paterson, David Calder, Robbie Coltrane) – Classic Movie Review 9677

Director David Drury’s outstanding political conspiracy thriller Defence of the Realm [Defense of the Realm] furrowed a few brows in London’s Whitehall government district on its release in 1985. Gabriel Byrne stars in his career-making […]

Apr, 26

Villa Rides *** (1968, Yul Brynner, Robert Mitchum, Maria Grazia Buccella, Charles Bronson, Herbert Lom) – Classic Movie Review 9676

An oddly hairy Yul Brynner struggles against his miscasting as the Mexican revolutionary bandit Pancho Villa (played by Wallace Beery in 1934’s Viva Villa!, by Rodolfo Hoyos Jr in 1958’s Villa!!, and by Telly Savalas […]

Apr, 25

Author! Author! *** (1982, Al Pacino, Dyan Cannon, Tuesday Weld, Bob Dishy) – Classic Movie Review 9675

Director Arthur Hiller’s 1982 comedy Author! Author! Stars Al Pacino, Dyan Cannon, Tuesday Weld, and Bob Dishy, and has a screenplay by Israel Horovitz. Although Al Pacino is odd casting (since he is not exactly […]

Apr, 25

Aunt Clara *** (1954, Ronald Shiner, Margaret Rutherford, A E Matthews, Fay Compton, Nigel Stock, Jill Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 9674

Director Anthony Kimmins’s 1954 Ealing Studios-style British comedy Aunt Clara stars Margaret Rutherford as the straight-laced old treasure Aunt Clara Hilton, who inherits a pub, five greyhounds and a brothel from her rich uncle. She […]

Apr, 24

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