Derek Winnert

Family Portrait *** (1950, voice of Michael Goodliffe) – Classic Movie Review 9152

Director Humphrey Jennings’s esoteric 1950 short film Family Portrait is a wistful, rather attractive and appealing documentary celebration of Britain’s past, with warmly nostalgic scenes of the nation’s home, town, farm, scientific, political and social life, […]

Dec, 13 · in Reviews

Miles from Home *** (1988, Richard Gere, Kevin Anderson, Penelope Ann Miller, Brian Dennehy) – Classic Movie Review 9151

Richard Gere and Kevin Anderson star as folk hero brothers Frank and Terry Roberts, who fight back illegally when their Iowa farm goes bankrupt, by robbing the banks foreclosing on farmers, in Gary Sinise’s 1988 […]

Dec, 13 · in Reviews

Of Mice and Men *** (1992, John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, Ray Walston, Casey Siemaszko, John Terry, Ray Walston, Joe Morton, Sherilyn Fenn ) – Classic Movie Review 9150

Director Gary Sinese’s 1992 honourable big-screen version of John Steinbeck’s tragic story drama from his famed novella Of Mice and Men stars John Malkovich as the sweet, simple, childlike Lennie Small, the over-sized, mentally disabled […]

Dec, 12

Of Mice and Men ***** (1939, Lon Chaney Jr, Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, Charles Bickford, Roman Bohnen, Bob Steele, Noah Beery Jr) – Classic Movie Review 9149

Director Lewis Milestone’s 1939 Of Mice and Men is a masterpiece, the best work of the beloved character actor star Lon Chaney Jr. It was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best […]

Dec, 12

Flame in the Streets **** (1961, John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Brenda de Banzie, Johnny Sekka, Earl Cameron, Meredith Edwards) – Classic Movie Review 9148

The 1961 British drama film Flame in the Streets stars John Mills as a large company’s union organiser who struggles when his only daughter (Sylvia Syms) announces that she plans to wed her Jamaican boyfriend […]

Dec, 12

The Whistleblower [Chui shao ren] *** (2019, Jiayin Lei, Wei Tang, Xi Qi) – Movie Review

Writer-director Xiaolu Xue’s entertaining Chinese-Australian co-production The Whistleblower (2019) is at heart a good old-fashioned epic chase conspiracy thriller, with some modern trimmings – OMG, way, way too much CGI! The CGI is no doubt […]

Dec, 11

The October Man *** (1947, John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Edward Chapman) – Classic Movie Review 9,147

John Mills stars as a brain-damaged amnesiac, who becomes the chief murder suspect, in the 1947 British noir crime drama The October Man. Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1947 British noir crime drama The October Man […]

Dec, 11

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