Derek Winnert

Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker ** (2019, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Daisy Ridley, Oscar Isaac, John Boyega, Adam Driver) – Movie Review

J J Abrams’s Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker (2019) brings the 40-year saga to a lame and limping end in the final chapter. It feels reheated and lukewarm. In the movies, […]

Dec, 24 · in Reviews

Cats ** (2019, Francesca Hayward, Rebel Wilson, James Corden, Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, Jennifer Hudson) – Movie Review

Director Tom Hooper’s belated movie version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s beloved iconic stage musical Cats (2019) is painless, apart from the restless hand held camera and the CGI, which are painful. The film doesn’t look […]

Dec, 23 · in Reviews

Penny Gold * (1973, James Booth, Francesca Annis, Nicky Henson, Una Stubbs, Sue Lloyd, Joss Ackland) – Classic Movie Review 9186

Director Jack Cardiff’s 1973 Penny Gold has a very friendly cast to recommend it, but it is a creaky old Seventies British thriller about a dead woman’s evil twin sister (Francesca Annis) being involved in a […]

Dec, 23

Penny Paradise *** (1938, Edmund Gwenn, Betty Driver, Jimmy O’Dea, Maire O’Neill) – Classic Movie Review 9185

Director Carol Reed’s 1938 comedy Penny Paradise stars Edmund Gwenn, who is a charmer as Joe Higgins, the Liverpool tugboat skipper who gambles a weekly sixpence on the football pools. One week he has a […]

Dec, 23

Far North ** (1988, Jessica Lange, Charles Durning, Tess Harper, Donald Moffat, Ann Wedgeworth, Patricia Arquette) – Classic Movie Review 9184

Jessica Lange stars in the gentle 1988 family comedy-drama Far North, written and directed by her partner, Pulitzer Prize-Winning playwright Sam Shepard, about a New York career woman who returns home after her father (Charles […]

Dec, 22

The Sound and the Fury ** (1959, Yul Brynner, Joanne Woodward, Margaret Leighton) – Classic Movie Review 9183

William Faulkner’s Deep South tour-de-force novel comes to the screen in the diligent but shaky 1959 film The Sound and the Fury from director Martin Ritt. At its centre is a committed but struggling performance […]

Dec, 22

Souls at Sea **** (1937, Gary Cooper, George Raft, Frances Dee) – Classic Movie Review 9182

‘Men Against The Sea! Stark Drama No Fiction Can Equal!’ Producer-director Henry Hathaway’s 1937 Souls at Sea is a popular Gary Cooper high seas action adventure about the American navy battling slave traders in the […]

Dec, 22

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