Derek Winnert

Running Brave *** (1983, Robby Benson, Pat Hingle, Claudia Cron, Jeff McCracken, Graham Greene) – Classic Movie Review 4994

Director Donald Shebib’s winning 1983 Canadian sports drama tells the engaging true tale of Billy Mills, the Sioux Indian, who, after quitting his tribe to make his mark in athletics, runs to glory in the […]

Feb, 14 · in Uncategorized

Odds Against Tomorrow **** (1959, Robert Ryan, Harry Belafonte, Ed Begley, Shelley Winters, Gloria Grahame) – Classic Movie Review 4,993

Robert Wise’s 1959 crime thriller film noir Odds Against Tomorrow is intense and exciting, concentrating on character studies of three crooks involved in a big heist on a bank, with a strong, timely plea for […]

Feb, 13 · in Reviews

Goal! *** (2005, Kuno Becker, Alessandro Nivola, Anna Friel, Stephen Dillane, Tony Plana, Miriam Colon, Sean Pertwee) – Classic Movie Review 5025

Written by Mike Jefferies, Adrian Butchart, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, director Danny Cannon’s soapy 2005 sports drama is total hokum but still shrewdly calculated and entertaining. Looking like a cross between the young Antonio […]

Feb, 13

Mystery of the Wax Museum **** (1933, Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh) – Classic Movie Review 5,024

The gruesomely atmospheric 1933 horror film Mystery of the Wax Museum stars Lionel Atwill as Ivan Igor, the scarred museum owner with human wax-covered models. The beautiful restoration of the two-colour Technicolor film reveals it […]

Feb, 13

The Shallows *** (2016, Blake Lively, Óscar Jaenada, Angelo Josue Lozano Corzo, Brett Cullen) – Classic Movie Review 5023

Blake Lively gives a very lively performance indeed as uber-resourceful surfer Nancy, who has somehow to fight back to survive when she is attacked by a great white shark and takes refuge on a rock […]

Feb, 13

Blue **** (1993, voices of Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton, John Quentin, Nigel Terry) – Classic Movie Review 5022

Writer-director Derek Jarman’s 1993 twelfth and final feature film is a complex meditation on the nature of AIDS with a soundtrack but no visuals. The featureless saturated blue screen serves as an ambient backdrop to […]

Feb, 13

Sebastiane *** (1976, Leonardo Treviglio, Barney James, Neil Kennedy, Richard Warwick, Donald Dunham, Ken Hicks, Lindsay Kemp) – Classic Movie Review 5021

Writer-directors Derek Jarman and Paul Humfress’s controversial 1976 homoerotic look at the 300 AD life of Saint Sebastian (Leonardo Treviglio) is filmed tastefully entirely in Latin (the world’s only film in this dead language) on […]

Feb, 13

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