Derek Winnert

Tex **** (1982, Matt Dillon, Jim Metzler, Meg Tilly, Bill McKinney, Ben Johnson, Emilio Estevez) – Classic Movie Review 9618

Director Tim Hunter’s little-seen 1982 Walt Disney Productions film Tex, adapted from one S E Hinton’s bestselling tales of troubled teenagers, is a rewarding, understated yarn about two brothers, Tex and Mason McCormick, in the […]

Apr, 08 · in Reviews

Frankie Starlight **** (1995, Corban Walker, Anne Parillaud, Gabriel Byrne, Matt Dillon, Niall Toibin) – Classic Movie Review 9617

Frankie Bois (Corban Walker) pens his life story in director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s delicious 1995 heartwarmer Frankie Starlight, an adaptation of Chet Raymo’s novel The Dork of Cork. As his mother Bernadette (Anne Parillaud) brings up […]

Apr, 08 · in Reviews

Miss Marple:  A Murder Is Announced **** (1985, Joan Hickson, Ursula Howells, Samantha Bond, Sylvia Syms, Joan Sims) – Classic Movie Review 9,616

The when and where of a murder are announced in the Chipping Cleghorn Gazette. The 1985 three-episode TV mini-series A Murder Is Announced stars the redoubtable Joan Hickson in her third case as the BBC’s […]

Apr, 08

Lady L ** (1965, Sophia Loren, Paul Newman, David Niven, Peter Ustinov, Cecil Parker, Claude Dauphin, Philippe Noiret, Michel Piccoli, Marcel Dalio) – Classic Movie Review 9,615

Peter Ustinov’s tour-de-force 1965 comedy film Lady L follows the route of Louise Lendale (Sophia Loren) from poor laundress in a Paris brothel to English lady via a series of espionage-style misadventures. The 1965 comedy […]

Apr, 08

The Lady Vanishes (1979, Elliott Gould, Cybill Shepherd, Angela Lansbury, Herbert Lom, Arthur Lowe, Ian Carmichael) – Classic Movie Review 9614

Wit, suspense and fun also vanish in director Anthony Page’s appalling 1979 remake of the 1938 Alfred Hitchcock classic The Lady Vanishes, with a very bad performance from miscast American star Cybill Shepherd, as a travelling […]

Apr, 08

Mix Me a Person ** (1962, Anne Baxter, Donald Sinden, Adam Faith) – Classic Movie Review 9613

Young Adam Faith (aged 22) stars as Harry Jukes, who is unjustly convicted of a cop killing, but finds a champion in his lawyer Philip Bellamy QC (Donald Sinden)’s wife, psychiatrist Dr Anne Dyson (Anne […]

Apr, 07

To Live and Die in LA **** (1985, William Petersen, Willem Dafoe, John Pankow, Debra Feuer, Dean Stockwell, John Turturro, Darlanne Fluegel, Robert Downey Sr) – Classic Movie Review 9,612

William Petersen stars as a reckless, corrupt US Secret Service agent chasing the bank-note forger (Willem Dafoe) who murders his agent buddy, in director William Friedkin’s dazzling, terrifying 1985 non-stop neo noir action thriller To […]

Apr, 07

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