Derek Winnert

Adventureland **** (2009, Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader) – Classic Movie Review 4317

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll be moved if you check out writer-director Greg Mottola’s delightful 2009 bitter-sweet comedy, set in the summer of 1987. It is advertised as ‘from the director of Superbad‘. Jesse Eisenberg […]

Sep, 08 · in Uncategorized

The Driller Killer *** (1979, Abel Ferrara, Carolyn Marz, Baybi Day) – Classic Movie Review 4315

Abel Ferrara stars in his own notorious, cheaply made ($20,000) and extremely disturbing 1979 horror film as Reno Miller, a psychotic, hallucinating New York frustrated artist, who lives with two room-mates, Carol Slaughter (Carolyn Marz) and Pamela […]

Sep, 08 · in Uncategorized

Invictus **** (2009, Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Tony Kgoroge) – Classic Movie Review 4316

There were two Oscar nominations and three Golden Globe nominations – but no wins – for director Clint Eastwood’s sterling 2009 biopic. Well, you can’t win every time, though the odd nod in the right […]

Sep, 08

Captain Fantastic **** (2016, Viggo Mortensen, George MacKay, Samantha Isler, Frank Langella, Kathryn Hahn, Steve Zahn) – Movie Review

Viggo Mortensen rejoices in one of his most richly satisfying roles as Ben Cash, an idealistic father devoted to raising his six kids in the Pacific Northwest forests with a rigorous physical and intellectual education that […]

Sep, 08

Hell or High Water **** (2016, Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Gil Birmingham, John-Paul Howard, Marin Ireland, Dale Dickey) – Movie Review

Jeff Bridges stars as bad-tempered, well crusty, old sheriff Marcus Hamilton, who with his buddy Mexican Indian cop Alberto Parker (Gil Birmingham) is doggedly on the trail of divorced dad Toby Howard and his ex-con brother Tanner, […]

Sep, 08

Dr Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs [Le spie vengono dal semifreddo] * (1966, Vincent Price, Fabian Forte, Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia) – Classic Movie Review 4314

‘MEET THE MOST TITILATING TIME BOMBS EVER! ‘ Vincent Price went to Italy to re-create his role as the mad scientist Dr Goldfoot for director Mario Bava’s unwanted and stupid 1966 sequel to the previous […]

Sep, 08

Don’t Look Back **** (1967, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Donovan, Alan Price, Allen Ginsberg, Albert Grossman) – Classic Movie Review 4313

Bob Dylan’s tour of the UK in 1965 comes under the scrutiny of director D A Pennebaker’s cameras in a deservedly famous, pioneering 1967 fly-on-the-wall rockumentary, which has a sharp eye for the boredom of the […]

Sep, 07

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