Derek Winnert

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams *** (2002, Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Daryl Sabara, Alexa Vega, Steve Buscemi, Ricardo Montalban, Cheech Marin, Danny Trejo, Mike Judge, Bill Paxton) – Classic Movie Review 4205

Young Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara return as plucky sibling spies Carmen and Juni Cortez, in writer-director Robert Rodriguez’s brilliantly fast-paced 2002 adventure that is very nearly as dazzling as his 2001 original Spy Kids. This time Carmen […]

Aug, 20 · in Reviews

Demon Seed *** (1977, Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerrit Graham, Berry Kroeger, Lisa Lu, Larry J Blake, John O’Leary) – Classic Movie Review 4204

Julie Christie enjoyed a rare commercial success in this rather nasty 1977 sci-fi thriller as a scientist’s wife held hostage by a giant mechanised brain. This weird but effective movie has some very telling shock moments […]

Aug, 19 · in Reviews

La Strada [The Road] ***** (1954, Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart) – Classic Movie Review 4203

Italian maestro film-maker Federico Fellini’s movie La Strada [The Road] won the first official Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1957 (previous winners only got special award Oscars) for this beautiful 1954 character study of […]

Aug, 19

Il Bidone [The Swindlers] **** (1955, Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Franco Fabrizi, Giulietta Masina) – Classic Movie Review 4202

Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart and Franco Fabrizi star as small-time crooks Augusto, Picasso and Roberto, who disguise themselves as priests to swindle the poor, in co-writer/ director Federico Fellini’s 1955 Italian neo-realist drama. But, when […]

Aug, 19

Les Biches [The Does] **** (1968, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacqueline Sassard) – Classic Movie Review 4201

Co-writer/ director Claude Chabrol’s chilly 1968 personal drama about two lesbians, or perhaps bisexuals, and a male architect is a graceful and deeply satisfying film. Evidently, it is as intensely felt by the actors as […]

Aug, 19

Une Femme Mariée [A Married Woman] **** (1964, Macha Méril, Bernard Noël, Philippe Leroy) – Classic Movie Review 4200

Writer-director Jean-Luc Godard amusingly explores the effects of the media on women’s lives in his involving and erotic depiction of cool married woman Charlotte (Macha Méril)’s love affair with an actor, Robert (Bernard Noël), though […]

Aug, 19

La Femme Infidèle [The Unfaithful Wife] ***** (1968, Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Maurice Ronet) – Classic Movie Review 4199

Writer-director Claude Chabrol is on peak form in the wonderful 1968 French psycho-sexual murder thriller La Femme Infidèle [The Unfaithful Wife]. And so is his then wife Stéphane Audran as Hélène Desvallées, the smart, unfaithful […]

Aug, 19

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