Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Intimate Relations *** (1996, Julie Walters, Rupert Graves, Matthew Walker) – Classic Movie Review 7067

Julie Walters enjoys herself hugely as Marjorie Beasley, a rapacious Fifties English seaside town landlady who fancies her new young seaman lodger Harold Guppy (Rupert Graves) and plots to seduce him and ends up sharing […]

May, 19 · in Reviews

The Intimate Stranger [Finger of Guilt] *** (1956, Richard Basehart, Mary Murphy, Mervyn Johns, Constance Cummings, Roger Livesey, Faith Brook) – Classic Movie Review 7066

Director Joseph Losey’s steadfast 1956 British noir thriller The Intimate Stranger is based on the novel Pay the Piper by Peter Howard [Howard Koch] and stars Richard Basehart as Reggie Wilson, a US film director […]

May, 18 · in Reviews

Breaking In * (2018, Gabrielle Union, Billy Burke, Richard Cabral) – Movie Review

Gabrielle Union stars in director James McTeigue’s strained and implausible thriller Breaking In (2018) as Shaun Russell, who turns up at the great home her father has just left her, along with her two kids Jasmine and Justin […]

May, 18

Life of the Party * (2018, Melissa McCarthy, Debby Ryan, Gillian Jacobs, Jessie Ennis) – Movie Review

Melissa McCarthy stars in Life of the Party (2018) as hearty middle-aged mother Deanna, whose husband (Matt Walsh) suddenly calmly announces he’s got a newer model, the attractive realtor (Julie Bower), and is divorcing Deanna […]

May, 18

Villain *** (1971, Richard Burton, Ian McShane, Nigel Davenport, Joss Ackland, Cathleen Nesbitt, Donald Sinden, T P McKenna, Fiona Lewis, Tony Selby, Colin Welland) – Classic Movie Review 7065

Director Michael Tuchner’s powerful but distasteful 1971 movie Villain is an effective but unattractive and revoltingly violent British gangster thriller, with Richard Burton giving a strong account of himself in an extremely nasty and unsympathetic […]

May, 17

Walk on the Wild Side **** (1962, Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda, Anne Baxter, Barbara Stanwyck) – Classic Movie Review 7064

Dove Linkhorn: ‘What are you doing here, Kit?’ Kitty Twist: ‘I run the candy concession.’ Despite the film’s original release public relations hysteria as really hot stuff, director Edward Dmytryk’s would-be shocking 1962 movie proves […]

May, 17

The Victors ** (1963, George Peppard, George Hamilton, Albert Finney, Melina Mercouri, Eli Wallach, Vince Edwards, Jeanne Moreau, Elke Sommer, Senta Berger, Peter Fonda, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet) – Classic Movie Review 7063

Unfortunately, you expect more from this earnest, massive 1963 Anglo-American anti-war epic than either the writer-producer-director Carl Foreman or his big all-star team of 15 leading American and European players can deliver. The Victors follows a squad […]

May, 16

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