Derek Winnert

The Supergrass ** (1985, Adrian Edmondson, Jennifer Saunders, Peter Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 10,768

Co-writer/ director Peter Richardson’s 1985 British film The Supergrass stars a hugely impressive array of Eighties TV icons: Adrian Edmondson, Jennifer Saunders, Peter Richardson, Dawn French, Robbie Coltrane, Alexei Sayle, Keith Allen, Nigel Planer, Ronald […]

Jan, 08 · in Uncategorized

Touching the Void **** (2003, Brendan Mackey, Nicholas Aaron) – Classic Movie Review 10,767

Director Kevin Macdonald’s 2003 Touching the Void is the breathtakingly exciting and awesome Bafta award-winning documentary-style drama, re-creating the events of 1985 when two mountaineers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, try to scale the west […]

Jan, 08 · in Uncategorized

Eat a Bowl of Tea *** (1989, Cora Miao, Russell Wong, Victor Wong) – Classic Movie Review 10,766

Director Wayne Wang’s 1989 Eat a Bowl of Tea is a gently amusing, telling and well acted 1940s-set romantic comedy drama about the family troubles of a young Chinese-American, Ben Loy (Russell Wong), when he […]

Jan, 08

Eat the Peach *** (1986, Stephen Brennan, Eamon Morrissey, Catherine Byrne) – Classic Movie Review 10,765

Co-writer/ director Peter Ormrod’s 1986 film Eat the Peach is an appealing Ealing Studios-style Irish comedy about two jobless young Irish buddies – dreamer Vinnie (Stephen Brennan) and his sidekick Arthur (Eamon Morrissey) – who see […]

Jan, 07

Eat the Rich * (1987, Al Pillay, Nosher Powell, Fiona Richmond, Ronald Allen, Sandra Dorne) – Classic Movie Review 10,764

Comic Strip man, co-writer/ director Peter Richardson’s aggressively unpleasant black comedy Eat the Rich (1987) about a waiter called Alex (Lanah Pellay, aka Al Pillay) getting fired from a trendy restaurant called Bastard’s, where he […]

Jan, 07

Eat My Dust! * (1976, Ron Howard, Christopher Norris, Brad David) – Classic Movie Review 10,763

Hot-rods racing, fast vehicles chasing, slapstick comedy and adolescent boys moaning make up Eat My Dust! (1976), a daft and disappointing cars-and-girls road movie from producer Roger Corman and scriptwriter turned director Charles B Griffith. […]

Jan, 07

The Shadow of the Cat *** (1961, André Morell, Barbara Shelley, William Lucas, Freda Jackson, Conrad Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 10,762

A murderous moggy called Tabitha seems to be bumping off those who are benefiting from its rich elderly owner’s untimely death, in Hammer Films’ sinister 1961 British mystery horror thriller film The Shadow of the […]

Jan, 07

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