Derek Winnert

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Between the Lines **** (1977, John Heard, Lindsay Crouse, Jeff Goldblum, Jill Eikenberry, Stephen Collins, Bruno Kirby, Gwen Welles) – Classic Movie Review 5800

Director Joan Micklin Silver’s attractively played, perceptively written and hugely entertaining 1977 cult movie focuses on life on a Boston youth-slanted underground newspaper whose staff is scared over gossip that it might be sold off […]

Jul, 23

The VIPs *** (1963, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan, Margaret Rutherford, Orson Welles, Maggie Smith, Peter Sallis, Rod Taylor, Linda Christian, Elsa Martinelli) – Classic Movie Review 5557

Director Anthony Asquith and screen-writer Terence Rattigan’s Grand Hotel-type 1963 multi-drama soap opera movie takes place in a fog-bound London Airport, and stars Richard Burton as Paul Andros, a tycoon whose wife Frances Andros (Elizabeth Taylor) […]

Jun, 06

The Big Clock **** (1948, Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan, George Macready, Rita Johnson, Elsa Lanchester) – Classic Movie Review 2575

Charles Laughton grabs the opportunity to shine in director John Farrow’s outstanding 1948 Hitchcockian thriller The Big Clock.  In director John Farrow’s outstanding 1948 Hitchcockian black-and-white film noir thriller The Big Clock, Charles Laughton grabs the […]

Jun, 09

Mr Arkadin [Confidential Report] **** (1955, Orson Welles, Peter van Eyck, Michael Redgrave) – Classic Movie Review 2450

Writer-director Orson Welles’s Mr Arkadin, retitled Confidential Report in Britain and some parts of Europe, was shot throughout Europe in 1954. Filming took place in several Spanish locations, including the Costa Brava, Segovia, Valladolid and Madrid, as […]

May, 03

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

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