Derek Winnert

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A King in New York **** (1957, Charles Chaplin, Maxine Audley, Jerry Desmonde, Dawn Addams, Oliver Johnston, Sidney James) – Classic Movie Review 2550

Troubled writer-director-star Charles Chaplin satirises America in the witch-hunt era of the Fifties and his personal history in a story seen through the eyes of a disillusioned foreign ruler in New York. Chaplin plays the […]

Jun, 01

Lost Horizon ***** (1937, Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard, Thomas Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 2,210

Shangri-la seems to be the perfect escape, but is it the Utopia it appears? Frank Capra’s charming 1937 romantic adventure film Lost Horizon stars Ronald Colman. Director Frank Capra’s 1937 romantic adventure classic film Lost […]

Feb, 24

The Dancer Upstairs **** (2002, Javier Bardem, Laura Morante, Abel Folk) – Classic Movie Review 1706

  This tense and moody real-life 2002 Peru-set political thriller makes a superb directorial debut for actor John Malkovich, showing that he really understands actors, the drama and the cinema. It’s long (at 132 minutes) […]

Sep, 23

The Patriot **** (2000, Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Jason Isaacs, Joely Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 1139

In director Roland Emmerich’s grand, glossy, epic-scale 2000 American War of Independence adventure drama, Mel Gibson plays Benjamin Martin, a peace-loving American reluctantly swept into the American Revolutionary War when his family is threatened. It’s shamefully unhistorical, […]

Apr, 23

Proof of Life **** (2000, Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, David Morse, David Caruso, Pamela Reed) – Classic Movie Review 1032

Director Taylor Hackford’s 2000 thriller is the one where Meg Ryan met and fell for Russell Crowe in real life. It is a scalding, epic action thriller about kidnap and retrieval. Alice Bowman (Ryan) begs […]

Apr, 01

V for Vendetta **** (2005, Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Rupert Graves, John Hurt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry) – Classic Movie Review 254

‘A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having!’ Hugo Weaving gets star billing in V for Vendetta (2005), hidden behind his disguise as a Guy Fawkes-style masked avenger called ‘V’. Escaping from prison […]

Sep, 21

If . . . ***** (1968, Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan, Robert Swann) – Classic Movie Review 91

Come the revolution, ‘which side would you be on’? Director Lindsay Anderson’s sabre-rattling story of the repressive life at an English public school in the late Sixties is satisfyingly potent and incisive. Although set in a […]

Jul, 26

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