Derek Winnert

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover ** (1989, Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard) – Classic Movie Review 10,649

Lust, murder, food, sex, torture, revenge and cannibalism are on the menu at Le Hollandais Restaurant, for Peter Greenaway’s 1989 film The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover. Michael Gambon plays a psychotic […]

Dec, 11 · in Reviews

Five Days [Paid to Kill] ** (1954, Dane Clark, Cecile Chevreau, Paul Carpenter, Anthony Forwood, Thea Gregory) – Classic Movie Review 10,648

The 1954 British black and white film Five Days [Paid to Kill] is a moody, decently plotted crime thriller, with a goodish cast to make it work: Dane Clark, Cecile Chevreau, Paul Carpenter and Anthony […]

Dec, 11 · in Uncategorized

Five Days One Summer **** (1982, Sean Connery, Betsy Brantley, Lambert Wilson, Jennifer Hilary, Isabel Dean, Anna Massey, Gérard Buhr, Sheila Reid) – Classic Movie Review 10,647

Producer-director Fred Zinnemann’s 1982 drama of incestuous love Five Days One Summer is a gorgeous looking 1930s-set Alps soap opera in which ageing, respectable married Dr Douglas Meredith (Sean Connery) and a young lady whom […]

Dec, 11

Paradise Alley *** (1978, Sylvester Stallone, Lee Canalito, Armand Assante, Kevin Conway, Anne Archer, Joe Spinell, Tom Waits) – Classic Movie Review 10,646

The 1978 drama Paradise Alley in a naïve but agreeable yarn, written and directed by Sylvester Stallone with energy in his feature film directorial debut, about three Italian-American brothers in the 1940s who try to […]

Dec, 10

F.I.S.T. *** (1978, Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle, Melinda Dillon, David Huffman, Tony Lo Bianco, Kevin Conway) – Classic Movie Review 10,645

Director Norman Jewison’s 1978 film F.I.S.T. is based on a story by Joe Eszterhas, and stars Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle, Melinda Dillon, David Huffman, Tony Lo Bianco and Kevin Conway. With the help […]

Dec, 10

Bellman and True *** (1987, Bernard Hill, Derek Newark, Richard Hope, Kieran O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 10,644

Security Sergeant: ‘It’s official – it’s a fuck-up.’ Director Richard Loncraine’s 1987 British crime thriller Bellman and True showcases a smashing performance by a totally credible Bernard Hill as Hiller, a computer-alarms system expert burglar […]

Dec, 10

The Belly of an Architect **** (1987, Brian Dennehy, Chloe Webb, Lambert Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 10,643

A fictional Chicago architect called Stourley Kracklite (Brian Dennehy), working on a project in Rome, Italy, an exhibition in tribute to visionary real-life French neoclassical architect Etienne-Louis Boullée (1728-99), discovers that everything is crumbling around him. Stourley […]

Dec, 10

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