Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

Drowning by Numbers **** (1988, Bernard Hill, Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 10,642

Writer-director Peter Greenaway’s extremely dark 1988 comedy drama Drowning by Numbers – about a coroner (Bernard Hill) and his relationships with three generations of women all named Cissie Colpitts (Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson and Joely […]

Dec, 09

The Desert Song *** (1929, John Boles, Carlotta King, Louise Fazenda, Myrna Loy) – Classic Movie Review 10,641

John Boles cuts a dash as the Red Shadow (aka Pierre Birbeau) in director Roy Del Ruth’s rather beautiful if perhaps shakily scripted and filmed 1929 Warner Bros (as The Vitaphone Corporation) innovative first version […]

Dec, 08

Design for Scandal *** (1941, Rosalind Russell, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold) – Classic Movie Review 10,640

Can you imagine Rosalind Russell as a judge or a sculptor? Well, here in director Norman Taurog’s airily funny 1941 MGM black and white comedy Design for Scandal, she plays both, paired as Cornelia Porter […]

Dec, 08

The Deserter [La Spina Dorsale del Diavolo] [The Devil’s Backbone] ** (1970, Bekim Fehmiu, Richard Crenna, Chuck Connors) – Classic Movie Review 10,639

Director Burt Kennedy’s 1970 Italian/ Yugoslav/ US co-production The Deserter [La Spina Dorsale del Diavolo] [The Devil’s Backbone] [Ride to Glory] is a violent Spaghetti Western with the usual revenge tale – cavalryman hunts the […]

Dec, 08

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