Derek Winnert

An Enemy of the People ** (1978, Steve McQueen, Bibi Andersson, Charles Durning) – Classic Movie Review 9286

‘The water’s poisoned. The people are poisoned. The children are poisoned! The water is poisoned!’ – Dr Thomas Stockmann. Ah yes, Steve McQueen versus Henrik Ibsen! Producer-director George Schaefer’s 1978 drama An Enemy of the […]

Jan, 21 · in Reviews

Weekend at Bernie’s *** (1989, Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Silverman, Catherine Mary Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 9285

Director Ted Kotcheff’s 1989 Weekend at Bernie’s is a spirited, even memorable try at that notoriously difficult genre – black comedy – in which New York insurance yuppies Larry Wilson and Richard Parker (Andrew McCarthy […]

Jan, 20 · in Reviews

Enemy Mine *** (1985, Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr, Brion James) – Classic Movie Review 9284

German director Wolfgang Petersen went from one sweet homespun fantasy film, The NeverEnding Story, to another with the same virtues – startling production designs and eye-catching makeup (here the aliens are created by Chris Walas). […]

Jan, 20

The Chastity Belt [La cintura di castità] * (1967, Tony Curtis, Monica Vitti, Hugh Griffith, Ivo Garrani) – Classic Movie Review 9283

Director Pasquale Festa Campanile’s 1967 Italian comedy The Chastity Belt stars Tony Curtis, Monica Vitti and Hugh Griffith, and is a film with a very broad sense of humour. Curtis stars as black-bearded husband knight […]

Jan, 20

Wee Willie Winkie **** (1937, Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen, C Aubrey Smith, June Lang) – Classic Movie Review 9282

Rudyard Kipling’s story about a little boy in 19th-century India is adapted as a vehicle for Shirley Temple in director John Ford’s 1937 adventure Wee Willie Winkie. Kipling wrote about Percival Williams, but Temple plays […]

Jan, 20

Hugs and Kisses [Puss & kram] *** (1967, Sven-Bertil Taube, Agneta Ekmanner, Lena Granhagen, Håkan Serner, Ingrid Boström) – Classic Movie Review 9281

Writer-director Jonas Cornell’s 1967 romantic comedy drama Hugs and Kisses [Puss Och Kram] is a bright, deliciously offbeat Swedish film centring on an aspiring author John (Håkan Serner) who is thrown out by his girlfriend […]

Jan, 19

Bad Boys for Life ** (2020, Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Jacob Scipio, Alexander Ludwig, Vanessa Hudgens) – Movie Review

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are on lively, fair form as Detective Mike Lowrey and Detective Marcus Burnett in directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah’s slick, confident but violent, unrealistic and overlong third Bad […]

Jan, 19

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