Derek Winnert

There’s a Girl in My Soup *** (1970, Peter Sellers, Goldie Hawn, Tony Britton, Nicky Henson, John Comer, Diana Dors) – Classic Movie Review 9164

Director Roy Boulting’s 1970 British comedy There’s a Girl in My Soup stars Peter Sellers and Goldie Hawn in an ordinary, over-familiar comic tale about a lecherous television star called Robert Danvers (Sellers) and the […]

Dec, 16 · in Reviews

Jane Eyre *** (1970, George C Scott, Susannah York, Ian Bannen) – Classic Movie Review 9163

Charlotte Brontë probably would not have liked director Delbert Mann’s smooth and glossy 1970 American TV version of Jane Eyre, which was released in cinemas worldwide. It is just too smooth and glossy. It won […]

Dec, 16 · in Reviews

The Two Popes ***** (2019, Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Hopkins, Juan Minujín) – Movie Review

Director Fernando Meirelles’s fascinating true-life biographical comedy drama The Two Popes (2019) is one of the films of the year, with Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins both on scalding form as the liberal future Pope […]

Dec, 16

The Courier ** (2019, Olga Kurylenko, Gary Oldman, Dermot Mulroney, William Moseley, Amit Shah) – Movie Review

Director Zackary Adler’s 2019 action thriller film The Courier stars Olga Kurylenko as a London courier who finds one of her packages is a bomb. It also stars Gary Oldman, Amit Shah, Alicia Agneson, William Moseley and Dermot […]

Dec, 16

Freedom Is Paradise [S.E.R. – Svoboda eto rai] **** (1989, Volodya Kozyrev, Sergei Bodrov Jr, Aleksandr Bureyev, Svetlana Gaytan) – Classic Movie Review 9,162

Volodya Kozyrev stars in the 1989 Soviet Union film Freedom Is Paradise as Sasha, a 13-year-old Russian boy who longs for freedom from his state-run reform school for troubled children. Volodya Kozyrev stars in the […]

Dec, 16

Night Boat to Dublin *** (1946, Robert Newton, Muriel Pavlow, Herbert Lom, Raymond Lovell, Guy Middleton) – Classic Movie Review 9161

Robert Newton, Muriel Pavlow and Herbert Lom enliven writer-director Lawrence Huntington’s very brisk and competent, entertaining 1946 British spy thriller Night Boat to Dublin, with a routine plot about an MI5 man, Captain David Grant […]

Dec, 15

Freedom Radio [A Voice in the Night] **** (1941, Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard, Raymond Huntley) – Classic Movie Review 9160

Director Anthony Asquith’s 1941 Freedom Radio [A Voice in the Night] is a tense, exciting, well-meaning, intelligent British wartime propaganda thriller, in which a Nazi-sympathiser actress, Irena Roder (Diana Wynyard), chums up to Hitler in […]

Dec, 15

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