Derek Winnert

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The Ghost of St Michael’s **** (1941, Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Felix Aylmer, Raymond Huntley) – Classic Movie Review 8392

Director Marcel Varnel’s 1941 vintage British black and white comedy thriller The Ghost of St Michael’s stars Will Hay again as a tatty teacher called William Lamb involved with spies once more. Hay takes on […]

Apr, 23

P’tang, Yang, Kipperbang [Kipperbang] **** (1982, John Albasiny, Alison Steadman, Abigail Cruttenden) – Classic Movie Review 8381

Director Michael Apted’s 1982 P’tang, Yang, Kipperbang [Kipperbang] is one of Channel 4’s First Love series of films, which was rewarded with a cinema screening release in the UK and an American release too as […]

Apr, 19

Billy Jack *** (1971, Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, Clark Howat) – Classic Movie Review 8324

Tom Laughlin writes, directs and stars in this once radical and significant, but now very dated and rather hollow-seeming 1971 hippie-era anti establishment drama about a half Native American Vietnam vet wandering round Texas harassed […]

Apr, 01

Unman, Wittering and Zigo *** (1971, David Hemmings, Carolyn Seymour, Douglas Wilmer) – Classic Movie Review 8323

Director John Mackenzie’s engagingly weird 1971 British thriller Unman, Wittering and Zigo stars David Hemmings, Douglas Wilmer, Hamilton Dyce, Carolyn Seymour and Tony Haygarth. Giles Cooper’s Fifties British radio and TV play about a new […]

Apr, 01

Notes on a Scandal *** (2006, Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Andrew Simpson, Michael Maloney, Tom Georgeson, Shaun Parkes, Phil Davis, Bill Nighy, Juno Temple) – Classic Movie Review 7897

Director Richard Eyre’s 2006 lesbian drama Notes on a Scandal was nominated for four Oscars. The smart screenplay is by Patrick Marber, based on the novel by Zoë Heller. Judi Dench is extremely effective cast against […]

Dec, 09

Twilight **** (2008, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Billy Burke, Anna Kendrick) – Classic Movie Review 7874

Kristen Stewart stars in director Catherine Hardwicke’s 2008 romantic vampire movie Twilight as the glum and gloomy Bella Swan, who moves in to live with her worried father Charlie Swan (Billy Burke) in the rainy […]

Dec, 03

School’s Out [L’heure de la sortie] **** (2018, Laurent Lafitte, Luàna Bajrami, Emmanuelle Bercot, Victor Bonnel) – Movie Review

School’s Out stars as Monsieur Eric Capadis, the professor of French at the prestigious French College of St Joseph, jumps from the window in the middle of a class. Then the handsome, charming, honourable but […]

Sep, 26

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