Derek Winnert

Shadey (1985, Antony Sher, Billie Whitelaw, Patrick Macnee) – Classic Movie Review 9972

Anthony Sher stars in director Philip Saville’s grotesque and repellent 1985 British black comedy Shadey about a broke car mechanic, Oliver Shadey (Sher), who uses his mind-reading powers to pay for a sex-change operation. Fine […]

Jun, 28 · in Reviews

The Kitchen Toto *** (1987, Bob Peck, Phyllis Logan, Edwin Mahinda) – Classic Movie Review 9971

Writer-director Harry Hook’s 1987 British drama The Kitchen Toto stars Bob Peck, Phyllis Logan and Edwin Mahinda. Mahinda plays a Kenyan boy called Mwangi, who is befriended by a British police chief, John Graham (Peck), […]

Jun, 28 · in Reviews

The Lady and the Highwayman *** (1989, Emma Samms, Oliver Reed, Claire Bloom, Hugh Grant, Michael York, John Mills, Ian Bannen, Robert Morley) – Classic Movie Review 9970

Cavaliers versus Roundheads, lecherous lords and lovely ladies, masked men and moody mistressess – John Hough’s 1988 swashbuckling adventure The Lady and the Highwayman was a new Gainsborough Picture, no less, happily reviving memories of the […]

Jun, 28

Lady Caroline Lamb ** (1972, Sarah Miles, Jon Finch, Richard Chamberlain) – Classic Movie Review 9969

Distinguished screenwriter Robert Bolt (Lawrence of Arabia, Ryan’s Daughter) got his chance to direct his wife Sarah Miles in this British 1972 historical romance Lady Caroline Lamb about Lady Caroline Lamb’s brief affair with Lord […]

Jun, 28

A Change of Seasons ** (1980, Shirley MacLaine, Anthony Hopkins, Bo Derek) – Classic Movie Review 9968

Director Richard Lang’s 1980 romantic comedy drama A Change of Seasons stars Anthony Hopkins as a long married New England professor who takes his sexy student (Bo Derek) as a lover. But his wife (Shirley […]

Jun, 27

Ma Saison Préférée [My Favorite Season] *** (1993, Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Marthe Villalonga) – Classic Movie Review 9967

Director André Techiné’s 1993 Ma Saison Préférée [My Favorite Season] is an intriguing and engrossing, if difficult and elusive study of two siblings, written by Pascal Bonitzer and André Téchiné. Catherine Deneuve and Daniel Auteuil […]

Jun, 27

Coroner Creek *** (1948, Randolph Scott, Marguerite Chapman, George Macready, Sally Eilers, Edgar Buchanan, Wallace Ford) – Classic Movie Review 9966

Director Ray Enright’s 1948 Cinecolor Western film Coroner Creek is a useful vehicle for Randolph Scott as gunslinger Chris Danning on the trail of the bad guy Younger Miles George Macready) who got the Native […]

Jun, 27

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