Derek Winnert

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3 Women **** (1977, Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule) – Classic Movie Review 10,471

‘1 woman became 2/2 women became 3/3 women became 1’. Writer-director Robert Altman’s 1977 avant-garde drama film 3 Women is an Ingmar Bergmanesque study of vain old folks’ home worker Millie (Shelley Duvall), new mysterious teenage helper […]

Oct, 27

Unstrung Heroes *** (1995, Andie MacDowell, John Turturro, Nathan Watt, Maury Chaykin, Michael Richards) – Classic Movie Review 10,470

Director Diane Keaton’s 1995 drama Unstrung Heroes is an odd but sweet and good-hearted yarn about a 12-year-old lad (Nathan Watt), sent to live happily with his crazily eccentric uncles (Maury Chaykin and Michael Richards) […]

Oct, 27

Used Cars *** (1980, Kurt Russell, Jack Warden, Gerrit Graham, Frank McRae) – Classic Movie Review 10,469

Director Robert Zemeckis’s coarse but funny 1980 cynical black comedy Used Cars stars Kurt Russell and Jack Warden as rival used-car dealers who leave nothing to chance when attracting customers. The two stars, plus Gerrit […]

Oct, 27

Used People *** (1992, Shirley MacLaine, Marcello Mastroianni, Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Marcia Gay Harden) – Classic Movie Review 10,468

Director Beeban Kidron’s 1992 drama Used People offers good opportunities for a lovely bunch of actresses, and is a funny, good-natured, cosily predictable film, with enough edge to see it over the sticky sentiment. Shirley […]

Oct, 27

The Unsinkable Molly Brown *** (1964, Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell, Ed Begley, Jack Kruschen, Hermione Baddeley, Martita Hunt) – Classic Movie Review 10,467

‘Can a girl find happiness with $20,000,000? YOU BET!’ Director Charles Walters’s 1964 Broadway show transfer The Unsinkable Molly Brown boasts Debbie Reynolds full of beans as the real-life mining-camp tomboy Molly Brown, who climbs […]

Oct, 27

Nineteen Nineteen [19/19] *** (1985, Paul Scofield, Maria Schell, Colin Firth, Clare Higgins, Diana Quick, voice of Frank Finlay) – Classic Movie Review 10,466

Director Hugh Brody’s fascinating 1985 British independent film drama Nineteen Nineteen [19/19] is a worthy though wordy look back at the past as, 65 years on, two imagined former patients of Dr Sigmund Freud discuss […]

Oct, 27

Night Key *** (1937, Boris Karloff, Jean Rogers, Warren Hull, Samuel S Hinds, Alan Baxter, Ward Bond) – Classic Movie Review 10,464

Director Lloyd Corrigan’s 1937 crime thriller Night Key stars Boris Karloff as the kindly, mild-mannered, half-blind inventor David Mallory, who gets a crook called Petty Louie (Hobart Cavanaugh) to help him get even with the […]

Oct, 26

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