Derek Winnert

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Fires Were Started [I Was a Fireman] **** (1943, Philip Dickson, George Gravett, Fred Griffiths) – Classic Movie Review 9124

Writer-director Humphrey Jennings’s wonderfully sensitive, realistic and moving 1943 documentary Fires Were Started about a London fire unit’s 24-hour day during the German air-raid bombings of winter 1940 elevates mundane detail to sublime significance and […]

Dec, 04

The Internecine Project *** (1974, James Coburn, Lee Grant, Harry Andrews, Ian Hendry, Michael Jayston, Christiane Krüger, Keenan Wynn) – Classic Movie Review 9031

Director Ken Hughes’s 1974 The Internecine Project is a clever but heartless British-made thriller, with James Coburn enjoying himself as Professor Robert Elliot, an ambitious business tycoon who tries to erase evidence of his criminal […]

Oct, 30

Official Secrets **** (2019, Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode, Ralph Fiennes) – Movie Review

Keira Knightley is well cast and on excellent form in Official Secrets (2019) as British Intelligence whistle-blower Katharine Gun, who leaked to the British press a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying […]

Oct, 24

Judy ** (2019, Renée Zellweger, Jessie Buckley, Finn Wittrock, Rufus Sewell, Michael Gambon) – Movie Review

Throwing herself into the 2019 movie star biopic Judy to the max, Renée Zellweger gives an impressively showy, over-twitchy, mannered performance as Judy Garland, who comes in London in the winter of 1968 to perform […]

Oct, 04

The Revengers’ Comedies [Sweet Revenge] ** (1998, Sam Neill, Helena Bonham Carter, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rupert Graves, Martin Clunes, Steve Coogan) – Classic Movie Review 8928

Writer-director Malcolm Mowbray’s 1998 comedy The Revengers’ Comedies [Sweet Revenge] stars Sam Neill, Helena Bonham Carter, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rupert Graves, Martin Clunes, Steve Coogan, Anita Dobson, John Wood, Liz Smith, Charlotte Coleman and Adrian […]

Sep, 22

Otley *** (1969, Tom Courtenay, Romy Schneider, Alan Badel, James Villiers, Leonard Rossiter, Freddie Jones, James Bolam, James Maxwell, James Cossins) – Classic Movie Review 8,856

Tom Courtenay stars as an antiques dealer mixed up with spies and murderers, in the amiable and amusing 1968 British spy comedy thriller Otley. Director Dick Clement’s 1968 British spy comedy film Otley is an […]

Aug, 23

St Martin’s Lane [Sidewalks of London] **** (1938, Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison) – Classic Movie Review 8761

Director Tim Whelan’s delightfully quaint 1938 British black and white showbiz fairy tale film St Martin’s Lane [Sidewalks of London] stars Charles Laughton as an ageing street entertainer (or busker) called Charles Staggers, scraping a […]

Jul, 26

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