Derek Winnert

The Incredible Journey *** (1963, Émile Genest, John Drainie, Tommy Tweed, Sandra Scott) – Classic Movie Review 8577

‘Three against the wilderness… nothing could stop them – only instinct to guide them across 200 perilous miles of Canadian wilderness!’ The animal cast – Muffy as Bodger the bull terrier, Syn Cat as Tao […]

Jun, 10 · in Reviews

That Darn Cat! *** (1965, Hayley Mills, Dean Jones, Dorothy Provine, Frank Gorshin, Neville Brand, Roddy McDowall, Elsa Lanchester, William Demarest) – Classic Movie Review 8576

Director Robert Stevenson’s 1965 Disney live action family crime comedy movie That Darn Cat! stars Hayley Mills as Patti, whose pet Siamese pussy cat uncovers a kidnapping when he follows the buyer of a salmon […]

Jun, 10 · in Reviews

That Forsyte Woman [The Forsyte Saga] **** (1949, Errol Flynn, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Young, Janet Leigh, Harry Davenport, Aubrey Mather) – Classic Movie Review 8575

‘This is the story of That Forsyte Woman and the men who were such fools about her!’ MGM’s 1949 Technicolor romantic drama That Forsyte Woman [The Forsyte Saga] makes a deliciously tasty meal of John […]

Jun, 10

Mr Wonderful *** (1993, Matt Dillon, Annabella Sciorra, Mary-Louise Parker) – Classic Movie Review 8574

Anthony Minghella, the director of The Talented Mr Ripley, Truly Madly Deeply and The English Patient, keeps his discreet, delicate, genteel film-making style intact in a move to the more rough and ready world of […]

Jun, 09

Don’t Raise the Bridge, Lower the River * (1968, Jerry Lewis, Terry-Thomas, Jacqueline Pearce, Bernard Cribbins, Patricia Routledge, Nicholas Parsons, Michael Bates) – Classic Movie Review 8573

‘Jerry’s in London – trying to make an easy million the hard way!’ Director Jerry Paris’s 1968 British comedy Don’t Raise the Bridge, Lower the River has a clumsy title for a clumsy film. Jerry […]

Jun, 09

Gloria Bell *** (2018, Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Caren Pistorius, Michael Cera, Brad Garrett, Holland Taylor, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Rita Wilson, Chris Mulkey) – Movie Review

Sebastián Lelio remakes his own 2013 masterwork Gloria (2018) as Gloria Bell, just like Michael Haneke made his 1997 Funny Games as the 2007 English-language remake Funny Games. Gloria Bell offers a grand opportunity for […]

Jun, 09

X-Men: Dark Phoenix *** (2019, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Sophie Turner, Jessica Chastain, Tye Sheridan, Evan Peters, Kodi Smit-McPhee) – Movie Review

London-born producer/ writer Simon Kinberg has been with X-Men for a long time as writer of X-Men: The Last Stand (written by), X-Men: Days of Future Past (screenplay and story by), X-Men: Apocalypse (screenplay and […]

Jun, 09

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