Derek Winnert

The Party **** (2017, Patricia Clarkson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall, Cillian Murphy, Emily Mortimer, Bruno Ganz, Cherry Jones) – Movie Review

‘You’re a first class lesbian and a second rate thinker. Must be all those women’s studies.’ Writer-director Sally Potter’s 71-minute black and white tragic-comedy drama is great – stylish, witty and clever. I hadn’t expected […]

Dec, 28 · in Reviews

The Organization ** (1971, Sidney Poitier, Barbara McNair, Sheree North, Gerald S O’Loughlin, Raul Julia, Allen Garfield, Ron O’Neal) – Classic Movie Review 6480

Director Don Medford’s 1971 routine second sequel thriller brings Sidney Poitier back for the third and last time as San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs, the upright cop from 1967’s In the Heat of the Night. […]

Dec, 28 · in Reviews

They Call Me Mister Tibbs! ** (1970, Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau, Barbara McNair, Anthony Zerbe, Edward Asner) – Classic Movie Review 6479

Director Gordon Douglas’s 1970 sequel to the 1967 classic In the Heat of the Night is an ordinary, but mildly entertaining thriller, in which Sidney Poitier reprises his role as good cop Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs on […]

Dec, 27

Brewster McCloud **** (1970, Bud Cort, Sally Kellerman, Shelley Duvall, René Auberjonois, John Schuck, Michael Murphy, Stacy Keach, Charles Durning) – Classic Movie Review 6,478

Bud Cort stars as a likeably strange, owlish young man who learns to fly with his man-made wings inside the Houston Astrodome, Texas, in director Robert Altman’s appealing 1970 film oddity Brewster McCloud. Bud Cort […]

Dec, 27

Thieves Like Us ***** (1974, Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, John Schuck, Bert Remsen, Louise Fletcher, Tom Skerritt) – Classic Movie Review 6477

Edward Anderson’s 1937 novel Thieves Like Us forms the basis of two brilliant, contrasting films, and it was first filmed in 1949 as a beautiful poetic black-and-white film noir by Nicholas Ray as They Live by […]

Dec, 27

Continental Divide *** (1981, John Belushi, Blair Brown, Allen Garfield, Carlin Glynn) – Classic Movie Review 6476

Director Michael Apted’s 1981 self-consciously old-style romantic comedy stars John Belushi and Blair Brown as the city newsman Ernie Souchak and the eagle-spotter Nell Porter, who are stuck together in the Rockies. Rather unexpectedly, the […]

Dec, 27

Old Boyfriends ** (1979, Talia Shire, Richard Jordan, John Belushi, Keith Carradine, John Houseman, Buck Henry) – Classic Movie Review 6474

Talia Shire enjoyed working with John Belushi on Old Boyfriends (1979) and told him he was a great actor when not using drugs, and wanted to work with him again. Belushi didn’t enjoy his role, […]

Dec, 27

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