Derek Winnert

Urban Cowboy ***½ (1980, John Travolta, Debra Winger, Scott Glenn) – Classic Movie Review 4675

Co-writer/ director James Bridges’s unfairly neglected 1980 drama ends up as a country music companion piece to Saturday Night Fever, made for discerning adults. It is a thoughtful, intelligent and entertaining vehicle for John Travolta […]

Nov, 20 · in Reviews

Pals of the Saddle **½ (1938, John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Doreen McKay) – Classic Movie Review 4674

Director George Sherman’s 1938 Western is a modest and moderate John Wayne filler movie for Republic Studios, made under his old contract just before he had hit the big time with Stagecoach (1939). It is the first […]

Nov, 20 · in Reviews

Overland Stage Raiders **½ (1938, John Wayne, Louise Brooks, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune) – Classic Movie Review 4672

The legendary silent film icon Louise Brooks plays Beth Hoyt in her last film that teams her with the young John Wayne, as his familiar nice-guy cowboy character Stony Brooke, in director George Sherman’s routine, […]

Nov, 20

Overnight ***½ (2003, Troy Duffy, Jeffrey Baxter, Chris Brinker) – Classic Movie Review 4673

Struggling 25-year-old musician and barman Troy Duffy did the difficult immediately: he wrote a script for a movie called The Boondock Saints and sold it to the ace independent film company Miramax. The deal was, […]

Nov, 20

The Overlanders **** (1946, Chips Rafferty, John Nugent Hayward, Daphne Campbell) – Classic Movie Review 4671

Chips Rafferty stars as Dan McAlpine, a cattle boss who leads a group of Northern Australian cattlemen and their herds away from the threat of Japan’s hostile forces by conducting a herd of 1,000 cattle […]

Nov, 20

Eureka Stockade [Massacre Hill] *** (1949, Chips Rafferty, Ralph Truman, Jane Barrett, Gordon Jackson, Jack Lambert, Peter Illing, Peter Finch) – Classic Movie Review 4670

Britain’s Ealing Studios went Down Under to Australia again (following its success with The Overlanders) for co-writer/ director Harry Watt’s 1949 pseudo-Western about four Victorian period Aussie gold miners, led by Peter Lalor (Chips Rafferty), grouping […]

Nov, 20

Europa [Zentropa] *** (1991, Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier, Eddie Constantine) – Classic Movie Review 4669

Cult name director Lars von Trier’s interesting but dodgy 1991 art-movie, with some imaginative work in the pop-video-style visuals by von Trier and his three cinematographers (Henning Bendtsen, Edward Klosinski, Jean-Paul Meurisse) compensating for muddled […]

Nov, 20

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