Derek Winnert

Shout ** (1991, John Travolta, Jamie Walters, Heather Graham, Richard Jordan, Linda Fiorentino, Scott Coffey, Gwyneth Paltrow, Glenn Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 3743

John Travolta stars as runaway Jack Cabe who is hired by a 1955 West Texas school for interned wayward delinquent boys as its rock-n-rolling new music teacher. Alas, despite a good cast, there is nothing that […]

May, 22 · in Reviews

Phenomenon *** (1996, John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker, Robert Duvall) – Classic Movie Review 3742

Director Jon Turteltaub’s emotional 1996 fantasy romantic drama proved one of John Travolta’s least successful but more intriguing Nineties movies, in which he plays a small-town garage mechanic who develops amazing mental powers. If the […]

May, 22 · in Uncategorized

Michael *** (1996, John Travolta, Andie MacDowell, William Hurt, Bob Hoskins, Jean Stapleton, Robert Pastorelli) – Classic Movie Review 3741

John Travolta lands a useful tailor-made role as the archangel Michael, with razor stubble, a hairy chest, a flabby gut and wings who drinks, smokes and dances. He comes back to Earth to live in […]

May, 22

Wild Bill **** (1995, Jeff Bridges, Ellen Barkin, John Hurt, Diane Lane, Bruce Dern, David Arquette, Christina Applegate, Keith Carradine) – Classic Movie Review 3740

This high, wide and handsome, great big, expensive 1995 Western about gun-toting lawman Wild Bill Hickok from tough-guy writer-director Walter Hill, the maker of 48 Hrs. (1982), is a huge treat for action and Wild West fans. An ideally […]

May, 22

Paris Trout *** (1991, Dennis Hopper, Barbara Hershey, Ed Harris) – Classic Movie Review 3739

Based on Pete Dexter’s novel, director Stephen Gyllenhaal’s opulently filmed 1991 Deep South thriller, set in a small Georgia town in the 1950s, is a savage and uncomfortable experience. It concedes centre stage to Dennis Hopper’s […]

May, 22

Strangler of the Swamp *** (1946, Rosemary La Planche, Robert Barrat, Blake Edwards, Nolan Leary, Charles Middleton, Virginia Farmer, Frank Conlan, Effie Laird) – Classic Movie Review 3738

In German director Frank Wisbar [Franz Wysbar]’s spooky, atmospheric low-budget 1946 black and white horror movie, townspeople mourn the death of a number of swamp land men by strangulation. Some believe they have died as a result of their […]

May, 22

The Cosmic Man ** (1959, John Carradine, Bruce Bennett, Angela Greene, Paul Langton, Scotty Morrow, Lyn Osborn) – Classic Movie Review 3737

John Carradine stars as the Cosmic Man, an extra-terrestrial who appears in ultra-cheap negative photography visual effects – and disappears again at will – to spread his gospel of peace and love to understandably utterly […]

May, 22

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