Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

I Feel Pretty * (2018, Amy Schumer, Michelle Williams, Tom Hopper, Adrian Martinez, Rory Scovel, Emily Ratajkowski) – Movie Review

Amy Schumer struggles as the tense and tubby, plump and pathetic Renée Bennett, completely obsessed with her appearance and weight, who has a head-banging fall in her exercise class, and ends up thinking she’s got […]

May, 07

Love Hurts ** (1990, Jeff Daniels, Cynthia Sikes, Judith Ivey, John Mahoney, Cloris Leachman) – Classic Movie Review 7018

Director Bud Yorkin’s gentle and pleasant 1990 comedy about the vagaries of human relationships amuses enough, but it is lacking in sufficient sharpness and wit to engross fully. Jeff Daniels stars as ex-baseball-playing womanizer Paul Weaver who […]

May, 07

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