Derek Winnert

A New Leaf **** (1970, Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Jack Weston) – Classic Movie Review 7219

The 1970 A New Leaf is Elaine May’s first film and still her best movie. She sparkles as writer, director and star of this quirky black comedy about penniless playboy Henry Graham (Walter Matthau) chasing […]

Jun, 25 · in Reviews

Ishtar * (1987, Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani) – Classic Movie Review 7218

Warren Beatty defends the 1987 mega-flop Ishtar as ‘a very good, not very big, comedy, made by a brilliant woman. And I think it’s funny.’ Disaster struck writer-director Elaine May’s daft little 1987 comedy Ishtar […]

Jun, 24 · in Reviews

The Fortune ** (1975, Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Stockard Channing) – Classic Movie Review 7217

Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty star in Mike Nichols’s 1975 flop farcical comedy The Fortune as bumbling conmen who abduct an heiress. Stockard Channing is charming and amusing as the heiress.  ‘It takes three to […]

Jun, 24

Colt .45 *** (1950, Randolph Scott, Ruth Roman, Zachary Scott, Lloyd Bridges, Alan Hale Sr, Chief Thundercloud, Ian MacDonald) – Classic Movie Review 7216

Director Edwin L Marin’s 1950 Technicolor Western Colt .45 stars Randolph Scott as Steve Farrell, a gun salesman whose new Colts are stolen by villainous Jason Brett (Zachary Scott) to arm a band of outlaws, so […]

Jun, 24

Fort Worth *** (1951, Randolph Scott, Phyllis Thaxter, David Brian) – Classic Movie Review 7215

‘RANDOLPH SCOTT…the way Texas went was in his hands…and his six-guns set it straight!’ Director Edwin L Marin’s 1951 Technicolor Western Fort Worth stars Randolph Scott as gunslinger Ned Britt, who retires and then turns […]

Jun, 24

The Cars That Ate Paris **** (1974, Terry Camilleri, John Meillon, Kevin Miles) – Classic Movie Review 7214

Writer-director Peter Weir’s 1974 directorial calling card movie The Cars That Ate Paris is a tense, eerie and atmospheric tale of Australia’s Outback, where a far-flung small community makes its living causing car crashes and […]

Jun, 23

Fort Apache the Bronx **** (1981, Paul Newman, Edward Asner, Ken Wahl, Danny Aiello, Rachel Ticotin, Pam Grier) – Classic Movie Review 7213

Director Daniel Petrie’s 1981 Fort Apache the Bronx is an urgent Eighties police report from deep in New York’s South Bronx area with its derelict tenements, hookers, pimps, wailing police cars, rain-swept streets and murderous assaults […]

Jun, 23

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