Derek Winnert

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Nasty Habits ** (1977, Glenda Jackson, Melina Mercouri, Geraldine Page, Sandy Dennis, Anne Jackson, Rip Torn, Susan Penhaligon) – Classic Movie Review 12,232

The 1977 British satirical comedy film Nasty Habits is based on Muriel Spark’s novel The Abbess of Crewe, and is an amusing satire of the Watergate scandal. Glenda Jackson is especially fine as the Abby’s […]

Jul, 15

Kong vs Godzilla [Kingu Kongu tai Gojira] ** (1962, Tadao Takashima, Yû Fujiki, Kenji Sahara) – Classic Movie Review 11,179

Director Ishirō Honda’s quaint and hysterical but fondly remembered 1962 Japanese kaiju monster movie King Kong vs Godzilla [Kingu Kongu tai Gojira] is the third film in the Godzilla franchise, and the first of two […]

May, 07

Man Bites Dog (1992, Benoît Poelvoorde, Jacqueline Poelvoorde-Pappaert, Nelly Pappaert, Hector Pappaert) – Classic Movie Review 10,951

Unluckily for us, Benoît Poelvoorde plays a thieving psychopathic serial killer called Ben, who takes a camera crew around with him to film his murders, in the 1992 Belgian satirical black comedy mockumentary film Man […]

Feb, 22

Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? *** (1970, Tony Curtis, Brian Keith, Ernest Borgnine, Don Ameche) – Classic Movie Review 10,770

If you like the wacky Sixties title Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?, you might like director Hy Averback’s uneven and unwieldy 1970  army satire about a trio of US tank buddies (Tony […]

Jan, 09

Bob Roberts *** (1992, Tim Robbins, Giancarlo Esposito, Alan Rickman, Ray Wise, Brian Murray, Gore Vidal) – Classic Movie Review 10,705

Writer-director Tim Robbins’s bright and always relevant 1992 comedy drama election campaign political satire plays as a mockumentary, or fake documentary. It is his directorial debut, includes several original songs co-written and performed by him, […]

Dec, 26

Boys’ Night Out * (1962, Kim Novak, James Garner, Tony Randall, Howard Duff, Howard Morris, Oscar Homolka) – Classic Movie Review 10,348

The 1962 comedy film Boys’ Night Out is a very dated, rather offensive sex farce about four business guys (James Garner, Tony Randall, Howard Duff, Howard Morris) who keep a flat with a blonde bombshell […]

Sep, 25

Meet the Applegates * (1990, Ed Begley Jr, Stockard Channing, Dabney Coleman ) – Classic Movie Review 10,193

Director Michael Lehmann’s 1990 Meet the Applegates is a defiantly peculiar surreal fantasy comedy about a colony of giant bugs from South America masquerading as a typical US family. The dad, Richard P Applegate (Ed […]

Aug, 18

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