Derek Winnert

Staying Alive ** (1983, John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes) – Classic Movie Review 7284

Director/co-writer Sylvester Stallone’s 1983 romantic musical drama Staying Alive comes up with a sequel to Saturday Night Fever for John Travolta, best described as Rocky meets A Chorus Line. It was a Golden Globe nominee […]

Jul, 12 · in Reviews

Man to Man *** (1992, Tilda Swinton) – Classic Movie Review 7283

Filmed by director John Maybury in 1992 using what was then state-of-the-art digital video trickery, Man to Man stars the ever astonishing Tilda Swinton, who re-creates her acclaimed solo stage role as Ella Gericke, a […]

Jul, 12 · in Reviews

Path of Blood *** (2018, documentary, director Jonathan Hacker) – Movie Review

Uniquely upsetting and disturbing, Path of Blood is a real-life horror film that needs to be handled with great care. Uniquely upsetting and disturbing, Path of Blood is a terrifying real-life horror film putting the […]

Jul, 12

Man-Proof ** (1938, Myrna Loy, Franchot Tone, Rosalind Russell, Walter Pidgeon) – Classic Movie Review 7,282

MGM’s starry 1938 film Man-Proof tells a tale of a philanderer (Walter Pidgeon) marrying one woman (Rosalind Russell) while carrying on with another (Myrna Loy). Even the very starry cast cannot motor up into top […]

Jul, 11

Man-Trap *** (1961, Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Stella Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 7281

‘Too many men… Too many thrills… Soon – Too much violence!’ Producer/ director Edmond O’Brien makes the most of his rare chance to direct (his second and last after 1954’s Shield for Murder) in 1961’s brisk, capable black […]

Jul, 11

The Master of Ballantrae *** (1984, Michael York, Richard Thomas, John Gielgud, Timothy Dalton, Ian Richardson, Finola Hughes, Nickolas Grace, Brian Blessed) – Classic Movie Review 7280

Likeable hero Michael York swashbuckles impressively again in director Douglas Hickox’s spruce, fast-paced, well produced 1984 British-made TV version of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson adventure novel about the plot to put Bonnie Prince Charlie […]

Jul, 11

The Master of Ballantrae **** (1953, Errol Flynn, Roger Livesey, Anthony Steel, Beatrice Campbell, Felix Aylmer, Yvonne Furneaux, Mervyn Johns) – Classic Movie Review 7279

Director William Keighley’s rousing British made 1953 Warner Bros movie The Master of Ballantrae stars Errol Flynn, who swashbuckles one more time in a totally rewritten and truncated version of the classic 1889 Robert Louis […]

Jul, 11

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