Derek Winnert

Boardwalk **** (Ruth Gordon, Lee Strasberg, Janet Leigh, Kim Delgado) – Classic Movie Review 8805

Director Stephen Verona’s 1979 drama Boardwalk stars Ruth Gordon and Lee Strasberg as a beleaguered old Jewish couple, Becky Rosen and her husband David, who fight back when they are under attack from Strut (Kim Delgado)’s […]

Aug, 08 · in Reviews

BMX Bandits *** (1983, David Argue, John Ley, Bryan Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 8804

BMX Bandits takes us back to the early Eighties BMX bike craze and a time when Nicole Kidman was a teenager. Where there’s a craze, there’s a movie and here is a bright but daft […]

Aug, 08 · in Reviews

Violette Nozière [Violette] **** (1978, Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Jean Carmet) – Classic Movie Review 8803

Director Claude Chabrol enjoys himself on his own ground with this taut 1978 psychological thriller Violette Nozière [Violette], based on the true story of the 18-year-old Parisian, Violette Nozière (Isabelle Huppert), who poisoned her parents […]

Aug, 07

Wild Geese II ** (1985, Scott Glenn, Barbara Carrera, Edward Fox, Laurence Olivier, Robert Webber, Kenneth Haigh, Stratford Johns) – Classic Movie Review 8802

The final curtain on Laurence Olivier’s film career was as Rudolf Hess in director Peter R Hunt’s below-par 1985 action movie Wild Geese II, in which Scott Glenn stars as adventurer John Haddad, who is […]

Aug, 07

All the Fine Young Cannibals *** (1960, Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, Susan Kohner, George Hamilton, Pearl Bailey) – Classic Movie Review 8801

The MGM studio advertised it as ‘There are no rules… there is no limit… IN THE LOVE-HUNGRY WORLD OF THESE YOUNG SOPHISTICATES!’ Money, partner swapping, drugs and restless youth: MGM thought that director Michael Anderson’s […]

Aug, 06

The Bravest [Lie huo ying xiong] *** (2019, Xiaoming Huang, Jiang Du, Zhuo Tan) – Movie Review

Director Tony Chan’s nail-biting survival action drama The Bravest [Lie huo ying xiong] (2019) is viscerally intense and successful both as a disaster movie and a tribute to China’s fire-fighters. It is staged on an awesomely […]

Aug, 06

An Unmarried Woman **** (1978, Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy, Cliff Gorman, Pat Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 8800

Writer-producer-director Paul Mazursky’s 1978 romantic comedy drama An Unmarried Woman is an insightful tale of troubled New Yorkers, as married woman Erica (Jill Clayburgh) and her teenage daughter are suddenly abandoned by rich, successful husband […]

Aug, 06

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