Derek Winnert

Till Death Us Do Part [Alf ‘n Family] *** (1968, Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols, Anthony Booth, Una Stubbs) – Classic Movie Review 6050

Director Norman Cohen’s 1968 hit comedy is the first spinoff from the hit BBC TV show Till Death Us Do Part. Regular writer Johnny Speight’s original story and screenplay show how the famous London East […]

Sep, 27 · in Uncategorized

The People Vs Larry Flynt **** (1996, Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton) – Classic Movie Review 6049

Woody Harrelson is superb as Larry Flynt in director Milos Forman’s sterling 1996 biopic The People Vs Larry Flynt that examines all the issues that arise head on. It is intelligent, intoxicating adult film-making, done […]

Sep, 26 · in Uncategorized

King of Peking ** (2017, Jun Zhao, Wang Naixun, Qing Han) – Movie Review

Australian writer-director Sam Voutas’s comedy drama is filmed in the Mandarin language and set in Nineties Beijing, where former projectionist Big Wong (Jun Zhao), now forced to work as a cinema janitor, ropes his feisty little […]

Sep, 25

Stronger *** (2017, Jake Gyllenhaal, Tatiana Maslany, Miranda Richardson) – Movie Review

Director David Gordon Green’s good, solid, strong biographical drama tells the heart-warming and inspiring real life story of Jeff Bauman, who lost both legs in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. With the help of his […]

Sep, 25

The Desert Trail ** (1935, John Wayne, Mary Kornman, Paul Fix, Eddy Chandler) – Classic Movie Review 6048

Director Cullen Lewis’s 1935 Western stars John Wayne as big-time rodeo rider star John Scott, who fights on the side of the law, in this routine Monogram studios B-movie. It is taken at a good lick […]

Sep, 24

The Star Packer ** (1934, John Wayne, Verna Hillie, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Yakima Canutt) – Classic Movie Review 6047

‘He fought for justice–and battled for love! He fought for JUSTICE!– Battled for LOVE!’ Writer-director Robert N Bradbury’s brisk-paced, cheaply made early John Wayne B-Western, made in 1934, is the star’s first movie for poverty […]

Sep, 24

The Pope of Greenwich Village **** (1984, Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Daryl Hannah, Geraldine Page) – Classic Movie Review 6046

Director Stuart Rosenberg’s 1984 comedy is a tastily juicy bite of Eighties Big Apple street life. Vincent Patrick writes this tale of a young New York Italian punk and his hopeless cousin trying to be […]

Sep, 24

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