Derek Winnert

Reviews

Eat My Dust! * (1976, Ron Howard, Christopher Norris, Brad David) – Classic Movie Review 10,763

Hot-rods racing, fast vehicles chasing, slapstick comedy and adolescent boys moaning make up Eat My Dust! (1976), a daft and disappointing cars-and-girls road movie from producer Roger Corman and scriptwriter turned director Charles B Griffith. […]

Jan, 07

The Shadow of the Cat *** (1961, André Morell, Barbara Shelley, William Lucas, Freda Jackson, Conrad Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 10,762

A murderous moggy called Tabitha seems to be bumping off those who are benefiting from its rich elderly owner’s untimely death, in Hammer Films’ sinister 1961 British mystery horror thriller film The Shadow of the […]

Jan, 07

The Wedding Banquet [Xi yan] *** (1993, Winston Chao, Mitchell Lichtenstein, May Chin, Ah-Lei Gua, Sihung Lung) – Classic Movie Review 10,761

Co-writer/ director Ang Lee’s 1993 comedy drama The Wedding Banquet [Xi yan] is a funny, touching, carefully observed little film with strong performances. Ang based the first half of his movie on the true story […]

Jan, 06

Eat Drink Man Woman [Yin shi nan nu] *** (1994, Sihung Lung, Kuei-Mei Yang, Yu-Wen Wang, Jia-Chien, Sylvia Chang) – Classic Movie Review 10,760

Co-writer/ director Ang Lee’s scrumptiously tasty 1994 foodie comedy film Eat Drink Man Woman [Yin shi nan nu] is set in his native Taiwan and was his calling card to world movie-making. Shihung Lung stars […]

Jan, 06

Tough Guys Don’t Dance ** (1987, Ryan O’Neal, Isabella Rossellini, Lawrence Tierney, Wings Hauser, Debra Stipe) – Classic Movie Review 10,757

Ryan O’Neal does well as a blacking-out alcoholic writer, who may have killed during a drunken bender, in Norman Mailer’s intriguing 1987 movie Tough Guys Don’t Dance. Wings Hauser scores as the psychotic new Provincetown […]

Jan, 06

Tough Guys *** (1986, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Charles Durning, Alexis Smith, Eli Wallach, Dana Carvey) – Classic Movie Review 10,756

Septuagenarian buddies Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas unite for the seventh (and last) time for director Jeff Kanew’s 1986 film Tough Guys, an amiable, entertaining caper about elderly train robbers Harry Doyle (Lancaster) and Archie […]

Jan, 06

A Touch of Larceny *** (1960, James Mason, George Sanders, Vera Miles) – Classic Movie Review 10,755

‘Meet the man with the hilarious plan to hoax the whole world out of a cool million… and coax a one-in-a-million girl into his arms!’ Director Guy Hamilton’s 1960 A Touch of Larceny stars James […]

Jan, 05

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