Derek Winnert

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Die Another Day *** (2002, Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Rosamund Pike) – Classic Movie Review 408

Forty years on from Dr No, in 2002, James Bond finds that diamonds are forever as he investigates a Korean terrorist and a diamond broker. All the usual 007 elements are shaken and pretty well […]

Nov, 16

The World Is Not Enough *** (1999, Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle, Denise Richards, Judi Dench) – Classic Movie Review 407

Ice cold secret agent Pierce Brosnan returns in 1999 for his third 007 film in The World Is Not Enough, another flashy, fast-moving if predictable entry, directed by Michael Apted. In it James Bond tries to […]

Nov, 16

The Spy Who Loved Me **** (1977, Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curd Jürgens, Richard Kiel, Caroline Munro) – Classic Movie Review 405

The tenth Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, made in 1977, is exuberantly entertaining and one of the high spots of Roger Moore’s enjoyable seven-movie reign as 007. Moore gives a supremely suave and […]

Nov, 15

From Russia with Love ***** (1963, Sean Connery, Robert Shaw, Lotte Lenya, Daniela Bianchi, Pedro Armendáriz, Eunice Gayson, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn) – Classic Movie Review 402

‘Meet James Bond. His new incredible women. His new incredible enemies. His new incredible adventures.’ Following the huge success of Dr No in 1962, the second 007 spy film From Russia with Love is more […]

Nov, 14

Barry Lyndon **** (1975, Ryan O’Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Murray Melvin, Steven Berkoff) – Classic Movie Review 401

Ryan O’Neal gets by on screen presence and charisma, despite his odd casting as the roguish Irish farm boy turned adventurer, in Stanley Kubrick’s 1975 extraordinary labour of love period drama film Barry Lyndon. Stanley […]

Nov, 13

The Man Who Knew Too Much **** (1934, Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Nova Pilbeam, Pierre Fresnay) – Classic Movie Review 242

The 1934 first of Alfred Hitchcock’s two highly entertaining versions of his suspense thriller spy story boasts a nimble, fast-paced spring in its step, along with several of his finest suspense sequences, a great quirky sense of […]

Sep, 14

Notorious ***** (1946, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Leopoldine Konstantin, Louis Calhern) – Classic Movie Review 233

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1946 end-of-the-war film noir masterpiece Notorious is one of his finest, most seductive movies. It is a devious twisted love story as much as a thrilling spy story. It all starts with a brilliant, masterly […]

Sep, 09

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