Derek Winnert

The Devil’s Playground **** (1976, Arthur Dignam, Nick Tate, Simon Burke, Charles McCallum, John Frawley) – Classic Movie Review 9306

Writer-director Fred Schepisi’s impressive 1976 feature début The Devil’s Playground is an autobiographical account of his repressed schooldays in a 50s Catholic seminary preparing boys for the priesthood. The film examines the clash between the […]

Jan, 27 · in Reviews

A Hidden Life *** (2019, August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Maria Simon) – Movie Review

‘Better to suffer injustice than to do it.’ Writer-director Terrence Malick’s challenging A Hidden Life (2019) is a noble enterprise, an incredibly sincere spiritual film, told with austerity worthy of Robert Bresson or Maurice Pialat, […]

Jan, 26 · in Reviews

Elvis: That’s the Way It Is **** (1970, Elvis Presley) – Classic Movie Review 9305

Here in Elvis: That’s the Way It Is (1970) is Elvis Presley in regal splendour rehearsing and performing in 1970 on his first concert tour since 1957. Director Denis Sanders looks at Presley backstage, polishing […]

Jan, 26

Elvis on Tour *** (1972, Elvis Presley) – Classic Movie Review 9304

Elvis Presley’s last film Elvis on Tour (1972) is ‘a close-up of the birth and life of an American phenomenon’, according to producer-directors Pierre Adidge and Robert Abel (who also made Mad Dogs and Englishmen). […]

Jan, 26

Elvis **** (1979, Kurt Russell, Shelley Winters, Bing Russell) Classic Movie Review 9303

Kurt Russell leads as Elvis in director John Carpenter’s compelling 1979 biographical account of Presley’s rise to stardom, making an effective stab at re-creating the King, with help from country singer Ronnie McDowell’s excellent voicing […]

Jan, 26

Easy Come, Easy Go * (1967, Elvis Presley, Dodie Marshall, Pat Priest) – Classic Movie Review 9302

Elvis Presley dives to the bottom of the barrel as a singing US Navy deep sea diver frogman called Ted Jackson, who thinks he has become incredibly rich when, joined by go-go dancer Jo Symington […]

Jan, 26

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse * (1962, Glenn Ford, Ingrid Thulin, Charles Boyer) – Classic Movie Review 9301

Director Vincente Minnelli comes a cropper with this stilted 1962 remake of the 1921 Rudolph Valentino silent classic The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The good star cast of Glenn Ford (as Julio Desnoyers), Ingrid […]

Jan, 25

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