Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Our Mother’s House **** (1967, Dirk Bogarde, Yootha Joyce, Margaret Brooks, Mark Lester, Pamela Franklin, Yootha Joyce, Anthony Nicholls, Phoebe Nicholls) – Classic Movie Review 4198

The 1967 British thriller drama film Our Mother’s House about seven children who hide the death of their deeply religious mother by burying her body in the garden of their dilapidated suburban Victorian home is […]

Aug, 19 · in Reviews

Bad Moms **½ (2016, Mila Kunis, Kathryn Hahn, Kristen Bell) – Movie Review

The lack of press screenings started up bad word on writer-directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore’s raucous 2016 girls’ comedy but the good news is Bad Moms isn’t bad. The first three quarters delivers a surprisingly high score […]

Aug, 19 · in Uncategorized

Le Boucher [The Butcher] ***** (1970, Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia) – Classic Movie Review 4197

Writer-director Claude Chabrol’s tantalizing, mesmerizing 1970 French thriller Le Boucher [The Butcher] is absolutely superb, a miniaturist masterpiece of tension, atmosphere and character. Chabrol’s then wife Stéphane Audran stars as a repressed French provincial small-town […]

Aug, 19

Le Bossu [On Guard] **** (1997, Daniel Auteuil, Vincent Perez, Fabrice Luchini, Philippe Noiret, Marie Gillain) – Classic Movie Review 4196

En garde, mesdames et messeurs, for co-writer/director Philippe de Broca’s exhilarating 1997 swashbuckling adventure, based on Paul Féval’s classic tale of passion and revenge in 18th-century France. Daniel Auteuil gives a most spirited turn as Henri […]

Aug, 19

The In-Laws **** (1979, Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Richard Libertini) – Classic Movie Review 4195

Super-talented players Peter Falk and Alan Arkin put the spark in producer-director Arthur Hiller’s huge fun 1979 offbeat buddy comedy, deliciously written by Andrew Bergman, full of quirky, zany and unexpected humour. Arkin plays dentist […]

Aug, 18

La Grande Bouffe [Blow-Out] ** (1973, Marcello Mastroianni, Philippe Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli, Andréa Ferréol) – Classic Movie Review 4194

Four burnt-out blokes meet up a villa in the countryside to eat themselves to death in the blow-out of the English title. But first they hire four prostitutes and engage in group sex. One of the […]

Aug, 18

Love Story *** (1970, Ali MacGraw, Ryan O’Neal, John Marley, Ray Milland) – Classic Movie Review 4,193

Ryan O’Neal was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for the 1970 romantic drama film Love Story. The success of Easy […]

Aug, 18

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