Derek Winnert

Starting Over **** (1979, Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen) – Classic Movie Review 7024

Director Alan J Pakula’s charming 1979 comedy-romance effectively casts Burt Reynolds as Phil Potter, the romantically inclined divorced writer who falls in love but finds he cannot choose between sweet teacher Marilyn Holmberg (Jill Clayburgh) […]

May, 09 · in Reviews

Fat Man and Little Boy [Shadow Makers] ** (1989, Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia) – Classic Movie Review 7023

Director Roland Joffe (The Mission) tackles a big subject of the making of atomic bombs in his 1989 film drama and comes a cropper. Paul Newman stars as General Leslie R Groves who in 1942 heads […]

May, 09 · in Reviews

80,000 Suspects *** (1963, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Yolande Donlan, Cyril Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 7022

Writer-director Val Guest’s realist 1963 British drama is based on Trevor Dudley Smith [Elleston Trevor]’s novel The Pillars of Midnight and tells an intriguing story set in Bath, Somerset, England, at the time of a smallpox […]

May, 09

Eight Legged Freaks *** (2002, David Arquette, Kari Wuhrer, Scott Terra, Scarlett Johansson, Doug E Doug, Rick Overton, Leon Rippy) – Classic Movie Review 7021

Watch out, bloodthirsty beasts are about when a bunch of exotic venomous spiders eat noxious chemicals of toxic waste and grow to humungous size. Naturally, there is a small American town to be terrorised, and […]

May, 08

Eight Men Out **** (1988, John Cusack, Clifton James, Michael Lerner, Christopher Lloyd, John Mahoney, Charlie Sheen, David Strathairn, D B Sweeney, Kevin Tighe) – Classic Movie Review 7020

Writer-director John Sayles’s fine 1988 film about the 1919 baseball scandal when eight underpaid members of the Chicago White Sox took money to throw the World Series. Eight Men Out is a satisfying experience, thanks to […]

May, 08

The Strangers: Prey at Night ** (2018, Christina Hendricks, Bailee Madison, Martin Henderson, Lewis Pullman) – Movie Review

Johannes Roberts’s pretty scary, pretty nasty, pretty average slasher horror movie sequel is an homage/ ripoff throwback to the Seventies/ Eighties classics, and is deeply indebted to Halloween and Friday the 13th. Once it gets […]

May, 08

Honeysuckle Rose *** (1980, Willie Nelson, Dyan Cannon, Amy Irving, Slim Pickens) – Classic Movie Review 7019

Director Jerry Schatzberg’s 1980 fictionalised biopic of popular Country and Western singer Willie Nelson oddly uses the vintage classical music romantic soap opera drama Intermezzo (1939) as a starting point. The screenplay is based on the story by Gustaf […]

May, 08

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