Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

A Month by the Lake ***½ (1995, Vanessa Redgrave, Edward Fox, Uma Thurman, Alida Valli, Alessandro Gassman, Carlo Cartier) – Classic Movie Review 4248

Italy’s Lake Como vies with Vanessa Redgrave as the formidable main attraction of director John Irvin’s elegantly made, charming 1995 film version of a good old-fashioned tale from an H E Bates novella. In the […]

Aug, 27 · in Uncategorized

A Dispatch from Reuter’s *** (1940, Edward G Robinson, Edna Best, Eddie Albert, Albert Basserman, Gene Lockhart, Otto Kruger, Montagu Love, Nigel Bruce, Dickie Moore) – Classic Movie Review 4247

A Dispatch from Reuters is a typically robust and entertaining 1940 Warner Bros biopic of the pioneer who founded the news agency Reuters, starting in the 1830s when Julius Reuter used carrier pigeons to transmit news […]

Aug, 27 · in Reviews

A Child Is Waiting **** (1963, Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Bruce Ritchey, Gena Rowlands, Steven Hill, Paul Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 4246

Burt Lancaster gives a commanding performance as Dr Matthew Clark, the psychiatrist in charge of an institution for mentally handicapped children in this sincere, moving and emotionally wrenching 1963 movie version of acclaimed American writer Abby Mann’s acclaimed […]

Aug, 27

Figures in a Landscape ** (1970, Robert Shaw, Malcolm McDowell, Henry Woolf, Christopher Malcolm, Pamela Brown) – Classic Movie Review 4245

Figures in a Landscape is an ambitious, arty 1970 film from distinguished producer-director Joseph Losey about two men, MacConnachie and Ansell (Robert Shaw and Malcolm McDowell), being chased through open spaces in an unspecified country by […]

Aug, 27

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers ** (1989, Donald Pleasence, Danielle Harris, Ellie Cornell, Beau Starr) – Classic Movie Review 4244

Co-writer/ director Dominique Othenin-Girard’s 1989 fifth episode in the long-running slasher franchise finds the masked maniac Michael Myers back on the rampage yet again in what is easily the worst installment so far. Michael Jacobs’s […]

Aug, 26

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers *** (1988, Donald Pleasence, Ellie Cornell, Danielle Harris, Michael Pataki, Beau Starr) – Classic Movie Review 4243

Director Dwight H Little’s 1988 fourth episode in the long-running slasher franchise started by John Carpenter with Halloween way back in 1978, marks a properly scary return to the plot, theme and characters of that 1978 […]

Aug, 26

Halloween: Resurrection * (2002, Jamie Lee Curtis, Busta Rhymes, Tyra Banks, Brad Loree) – Classic Movie Review 4242

Director Rick Rosenthal’s 2002 eighth Halloween movie brings Jamie Lee Curtis back as Laurie Strode (if only briefly) and reunites her with her director on Halloween 2 (1981). This time Brad Loree plays the unstoppable […]

Aug, 26

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