Derek Winnert

The Formula ** (1980, George C Scott, Marlon Brando, Marthe Keller, John Gielgud) – Classic Movie Review 7212

The Formula (1980) is at best formula film-making from John G Avildsen, the director of Rocky and The Karate Kid, who objected to the MGM studio’s release cut of the picture and unsuccessfully tried to […]

Jun, 23 · in Reviews

The Freshman **** (1990, Marlon Brando, Matthew Broderick, Bruno Kirby, Penelope Ann Miller, Maximilian Schell, Frank Whaley, Jon Polito) – Classic Movie Review 7211

Writer/ producer/ director Andrew Bergman’s 1990 black comedy The Freshman brings Marlon Brando back to a main role on the screen after a decade away to play Carmine ‘Jimmy the Toucan’ Sabatini, a Mafia Godfather who […]

Jun, 23 · in Reviews

I Never Sang for My Father **** (1970, Melvyn Douglas, Gene Hackman, Dorothy Stickney, Estelle Parsons) – Classic Movie Review 7,210

Gene Hackman stars in the 1970 drama film I Never Sang for My Father as a widowed college professor who feels dominated by his aging father (Melvyn Douglas), but has regrets about his plan to […]

Jun, 23

Dead Man’s Folly *** (1986, Peter Ustinov, Jean Stapleton, Tim Pigott-Smith, Jonathan Cecil, Constance Cummings, Nicollette Sheridan) – Classic Movie Review 7209

Director Clive Donner’s 1986 thriller Dead Man’s Folly is a diverting and ingratiating made-for-TV movie, given a considerable boost by a good production and its top-notch Anglo-American cast. The estimable Peter Ustinov entertains for the fourth […]

Jun, 23

Murder in Three Acts ** (1986, Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis, Emma Samms, Jonathan Cecil, Fernando Allende, Pedro Armedariz Jr) – Classic Movie Review 7208

Director Gary Nelson’s moderate 1986 Agatha Christie murder thriller Murder in Three Acts offers a new mystery to solve for Peter Ustinov’s Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, who investigates some suspicious deaths by poison after he […]

Jun, 23

Thirteen at Dinner *** (1985, Peter Ustinov, Faye Dunaway, David Suchet, Jonathan Cecil, Bill Nighy, Diane Keen, John Stride, Benedict Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 7,207

Peter Ustinov is very welcome back in one of his six appearances as Agatha Christie’s Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot in the 1985 film Thirteen at Dinner, a TV movie version of Christie’s novel Lord Edgware […]

Jun, 22

In The Fade [Aus dem Nichts] ***** (2017, Diane Kruger, Denis Moschitto, Numan Acar) – Movie Review

Really good, serious-minded German thriller. Diane Kruger great! Writer-director Fatih Akin’s In The Fade [Aus dem Nichts] (2017) is a really good, serious-minded, grown-up German thriller. Diane Kruger is great as Katja Sekerci, who seeks revenge after […]

Jun, 22

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