Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Eight Men Out **** (1988, John Cusack, Clifton James, Michael Lerner, Christopher Lloyd, John Mahoney, Charlie Sheen, David Strathairn, D B Sweeney, Kevin Tighe) – Classic Movie Review 7020

Writer-director John Sayles’s fine 1988 film about the 1919 baseball scandal when eight underpaid members of the Chicago White Sox took money to throw the World Series. Eight Men Out is a satisfying experience, thanks to […]

May, 08 · in Reviews

The Strangers: Prey at Night ** (2018, Christina Hendricks, Bailee Madison, Martin Henderson, Lewis Pullman) – Movie Review

Johannes Roberts’s pretty scary, pretty nasty, pretty average slasher horror movie sequel is an homage/ ripoff throwback to the Seventies/ Eighties classics, and is deeply indebted to Halloween and Friday the 13th. Once it gets […]

May, 08 · in Reviews

Honeysuckle Rose *** (1980, Willie Nelson, Dyan Cannon, Amy Irving, Slim Pickens) – Classic Movie Review 7019

Director Jerry Schatzberg’s 1980 fictionalised biopic of popular Country and Western singer Willie Nelson oddly uses the vintage classical music romantic soap opera drama Intermezzo (1939) as a starting point. The screenplay is based on the story by Gustaf […]

May, 08

I Feel Pretty * (2018, Amy Schumer, Michelle Williams, Tom Hopper, Adrian Martinez, Rory Scovel, Emily Ratajkowski) – Movie Review

Amy Schumer struggles as the tense and tubby, plump and pathetic Renée Bennett, completely obsessed with her appearance and weight, who has a head-banging fall in her exercise class, and ends up thinking she’s got […]

May, 07

Love Hurts ** (1990, Jeff Daniels, Cynthia Sikes, Judith Ivey, John Mahoney, Cloris Leachman) – Classic Movie Review 7018

Director Bud Yorkin’s gentle and pleasant 1990 comedy about the vagaries of human relationships amuses enough, but it is lacking in sufficient sharpness and wit to engross fully. Jeff Daniels stars as ex-baseball-playing womanizer Paul Weaver who […]

May, 07

Nanook of the North **** (1922, Allakariallak, Nyla, Cunayou, Allegoo) – Classic Movie Review 7017

Director Robert J Flaherty’s famous 1922 black and white silent film documentary about the hardships experienced by an Eskimo (Inuit) family living in the Arctic Circle is an admirable, enduring achievement, especially given the obvious problems […]

May, 07

Napoleon ***** (1927, Albert Dieudonné, Vladimir Roudenko, Edmond Van Daële) – Classic Movie Review 7,016

Writer-director Abel Gance’s astonishing great French 1927 silent epic biopic of the young Napoleon Bonaparte (Albert Dieudonné), with a fine, powerful, commanding central performance and several outstanding sequences, is filmed with enormous style and energy for […]

May, 07

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