Derek Winnert

Suburbicon ** (2017, Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Oscar Isaac, Noah Jupe) – Movie Review

This disappointing, misjudged, awkwardly plotted Coen Brothers-style dark comedy crime thriller just doesn’t catch fire despite the frenzied efforts of the talented cast and director. I say Coen Brothers-style film, and they originally wrote the script […]

Nov, 30 · in Reviews

Battle of the Sexes *** (2017, Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Andrea Riseborough) – Movie Review

Expert screen-writer Simon Beaufoy, of The Full Monty and Slumdog Millionaire fame. retells the true story of the 1973 tennis match between female world number one Billie Jean King and male ex-champ and gambler/hustler Bobby Riggs. It gets […]

Nov, 30 · in Reviews

Renaldo and Clara *** (1978, Bob Dylan, Sara Dylan, Joan Baez) – Classic Movie Review 6336

‘A Film by BOB DYLAN.’ Bob Dylan is Renaldo and Sara Dylan (Mrs Dylan) is Clara, Ronnie Hawkins is Bob Dylan and Ronee Blakley is Mrs Bob Dylan in director Bob Dylan’s odd 1978 epic […]

Nov, 29

Pretty Poison **** (1968, Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld, Beverly Garland) – Classic Movie Review 6335

At the top of their game, Anthony Perkins and Tuesday Weld are stupendous in director Noel Black’s satisfying, offbeat 1968 thriller based on Stephen Geller’s novel She Let Him Continue, mixing in a little twisted […]

Nov, 29

Alice’s Restaurant **** (1969, Arlo Guthrie, Patricia Quinn, James Broderick) – Classic Movie Review 6334

‘You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant.’ Co-writer/ director Arthur Penn’s engaging, quirky, sometimes brilliant 1969 anti-establishment film perfectly captures the late-Sixties stop-the-Vietnam War spirit of the Arlo Guthrie song (‘The Alice’s Restaurant […]

Nov, 29

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland ** (1972, Fiona Fullerton, Michael Jayston, Hywel Bennett, Ralph Richardson, Peter Sellers, Flora Robson, Dudley Moore, Rodney Bewes) – Classic Movie Review 6333

Writer-director William Sterling’s lovingly crafted 1972 movie is another attempt at an all-star human cast version of Lewis Carroll’s classic novel, and this time it is a semi-musical version, with a score by John Barry […]

Nov, 29

Betty Blue [37°2 le matin] **** (1986, Béatrice Dalle, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Consuelo De Haviland, Gérard Darmond, Vincent Lindon) – Classic Movie Review 6,332

Jean-Jacques Beineix’s erotically charged, visually stylish 1986 French cinema landmark Betty Blue [37°2 le matin] offers Béatrice Dalle her best ever screen opportunity as volatile waitress Betty attracted to Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade).  Writer/ director Jean-Jacques […]

Nov, 29

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