Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

The Land Girls ** (1998, Catherine McCormack, Rachel Weisz, Anna Friel, Steven Macintosh) – Classic Movie Review 7037

In World War Two, three London ladies called Ag, Stella and Prue (Rachel Weisz, Catherine McCormack and Anna Friel) are billeted on a farm in the Dorest countryside, where they have to work for The […]

May, 11 · in Reviews

Wish You Were Here *** (1987, Emily Lloyd, Trudi Cavanagh, Clare Clifford, Tom Bell, Barbara Durkin) – Classic Movie Review 7,036

Debut director David Leland, who also wrote Terry Jones’s 1987 film Personal Services, grabs more mileage the same year from the real-life story of Streatham brothel keeper Cynthia Payne in Wish You Were Here. Début […]

May, 11 · in Reviews

Personal Services **** (1987, Julie Walters, Alec McCowen, Shirley Stelfox) – Classic Movie Review 7035

Director Terry Jones’s 1987 British comedy drama Personal Services finds a perfectly cast Julie Walters on great, exuberant form and having a grand old time as brothel madam Christine, inspired by the real-life south London […]

May, 11

The Last Temptation of Christ *** (1988, Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey) – Classic Movie Review 7034

Director Martin Scorsese’s 1988 movie about the life of Jesus Christ is one of the most controversial films of the Eighties, and it is a daring, difficult and important work. It was greeted, expectedly, mainly […]

May, 10

A Man Called Horse **** (1970, Richard Harris, Judith Anderson, Jean Gascon, Manu Tupou) – Classic Movie Review 7033

Director Elliot Silverstein’s 1970 movie A Man Called Horse is a stirring, ambitious adult Western with convincing performances from Richard Harris, Manu Tupou as the Indian chief Yellow Hand, and Judith Anderson as his noble […]

May, 10

They Live *** (1988, Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster) – Classic Movie Review 7032

The Earth has been taken over by aliens who look like us, and only construction worker drifter Nada (Roddy Piper) and a small band of humans equipped with special sunglasses can see them in our […]

May, 10

A Man Called Gannon *** (1968, Anthony Franciosa, Michael Sarrazin, Judi West) – Classic Movie Review 7031

Tony Franciosa stars as a cowpoke drifter who takes a tenderfoot kid (Michael Sarrazin) under his wing and helps a widow rancher (Judi West) in a range war, in the 1968 Western A Man Called […]

May, 10

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