Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Somebody Up There Likes Me **** (1956, Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane, Eileen Heckart) – Classic Movie Review 6893

Director Robert Wise’s 1956 biopic drama is the double-Oscar-winning Fifties fight movie classic that turned the 31-year-old Paul Newman into a star. It is one of the great boxing movies. Audiences certainly liked Newman up […]

Apr, 07 · in Reviews

Enduring Love *** (2004, Rhys Ifans, Daniel Craig, Samantha Morton, Bill Nighy, Susan Lynch, Corin Redgrave, Ben Whishaw) – Classic Movie Review 6892

Director Roger Michell’s weird, haunting and tantalising 2004 British film Enduring Love is written by screenwriter Joe Penhall, based on the 1997 novel by Ian McEwan. The story concerns the perfect picnic of Joe (Daniel Craig) and […]

Apr, 07 · in Uncategorized

People Will Talk **** (1951, Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Hume Cronyn, Walter Slezak, Finlay Currie, Sidney Blackmer) – Classic Movie Review 6891

Cary Grant stars in the 1951 romantic comedy drama People Will Talk as a crusading doctor (Dr Noah Praetorius) battling a jealous anatomist Professor Elwell (Hume Cronyn) and falling in love with young intern Deborah […]

Apr, 06

Pennies from Heaven *** (1936, Bing Crosby, Edith Fellows, Madge Evans, Louis Armstrong, Donald Meek) – Classic Movie Review 6890

Bing Crosby stars as Larry Poole, a Thirties modern-day troubadour with ambitions to be a singing gondolier in Venice. But, after a short spell in jail on a trumped-up charge, he fulfills a promise to […]

Apr, 06

Pennies from Heaven *** (1981, Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Walken, Jessica Harper) – Classic Movie Review 6889

Director Herbert Ross’s ambitious and intelligent 1981 American musical romantic drama film Pennies from Heaven is adapted for American audiences by Dennis Potter from his classic 1978 BBC TV drama miniseries, changing its setting from London and the Forest of Dean […]

Apr, 06

Some Voices *** (2000, Daniel Craig, David Morrissey, Kelly Macdonald, Julie Graham, Peter McDonald) – Classic Movie Review 6888

Director Simon Cellan Jones’s interesting and worthwhile 2000 dark comedy drama Some Voices features an early full-on performance by Daniel Craig as Ray, a schizophrenic just discharged from psychiatric hospital, who causes havoc in his […]

Apr, 06

Ghost Stories ** (2017, Andy Nyman, Martin Freeman, Paul Whitehouse, Alex Lawther) – Movie Review

Andy Nyman stars as a parapsychology professor, the arch sceptic Professor Phillip Goodman, stumbles across a long-lost file containing details of three cases of supposedly inexplicable hauntings and must solve the puzzle of the three […]

Apr, 05

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