Derek Winnert

Repossessed * (1990, Linda Blair, Ned Beatty, Leslie Nielsen) – Classic Movie Review 4886

Writer-director Bob Logan somehow managed in 1990 to persuade Linda Blair back to her most famous moment and she gleefully sends up both herself and The Exorcist (1973) movie that once made her world renowned. […]

Jan, 14 · in Uncategorized

Live by Night ** (2016, Ben Affleck, Chris Messina, Elle Fanning, Brendan Gleeson) – Movie Review

Ben Affleck and Chris Messina star as Joe Coughlin and Dion Bartolo, a couple of Boston gangsters who, to get themselves out of trouble, do a deal with Italian mobster Maso Pescatore (Remo Girone) and set […]

Jan, 13 · in Uncategorized

The Love Witch ***½ (2016, Samantha Robinson, Laura Waddell, Gian Keys, Robert Seeley, Jeffrey Vincent Parise) – Movie Review

The  visually stylish 2016 horror comedy The Love Witch is funny throughout its epic two hours, and maybe just a little bit creepy and scary too, certainly plenty weird. It is perhaps a tiny bit too […]

Jan, 13

Hiroshima Mon Amour ***** (1959, Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson) – Classic Movie Review 4885

The debut movie of the all-time great director Alain Resnais is a beautifully crafted gem, with an intelligent, challenging screenplay by Marguerite Duras. Emmanuelle Riva stars as Elle, a French actress who has an affair […]

Jan, 13

The Long Absence [Une Aussi Longue Absence] **** (1961, Alida Valli, Georges Wilson, Charles Blavette) – Classic Movie Review 4884

Co-writer/ director Henri Colpi’s affecting 1961 first feature film stars Alida Valli as Thérèse Langlois, an isolated, lonely French bar proprietor, who sees an amnesiac tramp (Georges Wilson) walking past her small café in the […]

Jan, 12

The Exterminating Angel [El Angel Exterminador] **** (1962, Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, Enrique Rambal) – Classic Movie Review 4883

Co-writer/ director Luis Buñuel starts his glittering series of onslaughts on the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie with this tantalising 1962 Surrealist black comedy. There is perhaps a little too much obvious calculation in the […]

Jan, 12

Viridiana **** (1961, Silvia Pinal, Fernando Rey, Francisco Rabal) – Classic Movie Review 4882

Director Luis Buñuel’s first film back in his native Spain after three decades away focuses on Viridiana (Silvia Pinal), a young novice nun full of idealistic illusions who is taken advantage of by her widowed […]

Jan, 12

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