Derek Winnert

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Bulldog Drummond **** (1929, Ronald Colman, Joan Bennett, Claud Allister, Lilyan Tashman, Montague Love, Lawrence Grant, Wilson Benge) – Classic Movie Review 5,360

Ronald Colman makes the part of British ex-army officer adventurer Captain Hugh Bulldog Drummond his own, in the excellent 1929 film Bulldog Drummond, with Claud Allister as his friend Algy Longworth. Writer Herman C McNeile […]

Apr, 28

The Battle of Algiers [La Battaglia di Algeri] ***** (1965, Brahim Haggiag, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Tommaso Neri, Semia Kerbash, Michelle Kerbash) – Classic Movie Review 5093

Director Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1965 film is a masterly reconstruction in CinemaScope of violent events in Algiers from 1954 to 1957, with an intense personal tale about a petty criminal (Brahim Haggiag [Hadjadj]) recruited into the […]

Mar, 02

Silence *** (2016, Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson) – Movie Review

I know I’m going to regret this, but here goes. Director Martin Scorsese is determined to give us a bad time from the get-go for his extreme, take-no-prisoners 2016 religious drama with torture from the […]

Jan, 08

Mum & Dad **½ (2008, Perry Benson, Dido Miles, Olga Fedori, Ainsley Howard) – Classic Movie Review 4624

Writer-director Steven Sheil’s 2008 low-budget British horror thriller film is well made and resourceful but deeply unpleasant. It starts with young Polish Heathrow Airport office cleaner Lena (Olga Fedori) accompanying an apparently friendly co-worker called […]

Nov, 10

Tower of London ** (1962, Vincent Price, Michael Pate, Joan Freeman, Robert Brown) – Classic Movie Review 4439

Director Roger Corman’s typically cost-cutting and cheerful 1962 remake of the 1939 film Tower of London this time stars Vincent Price, who has a grand old time as Richard of Gloucester who kills those in […]

Oct, 01

The Fixer *** (1968, Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Georgia Brown, Hugh Griffith, Ian Holm, Jack Gilford, Elizabeth Hartman, Carol White, David Warner) – Classic Movie Review 4282

Director John Frankenheimer’s 1968 movie of Bernard Malamud’s much admired novel is forceful and well meaning. But is also long, slow-moving and very hard going and was therefore unsurprisingly not popular at the box office. However, it […]

Sep, 01

Wolf Creek ** (2005, John Jarratt, Nathan Phillips, Cassandra Magrath, Kestie Morassi) – Classic Movie Review 3628

Two English gals, Liz Hunter (Cassandra Magrath) and Kristy Earl (Kestie Morassi), backpacking across the country Down Under, pick up a fit bloke called Ben Mitchell (Nathan Phillips), an Australian friend from Sydney, and set off for […]

Apr, 29

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