Derek Winnert

My Way Home ***** (1978, Stephen Archibald, Paul Kermack, Jessie Combe, Joseph Blatchley) – Classic Movie Review 8809

Writer-director Bill Douglas’s 1978 black and white British autobiographical drama My Way Home is the third and perhaps most impressive part of The Bill Douglas Trilogy begun with My Childhood (1972) and My Ain Folk […]

Aug, 09 · in Reviews

My Ain Folk **** (1973, Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith) – Classic Movie Review 8808

In My Ain Folk (1973), part two of writer-director Bill Douglas’s autobiographical British drama The Bill Douglas Trilogy, Jamie (Stephen Archibald), the unwanted Scots boy of My Childhood (1972), who is living with his grandmother […]

Aug, 09 · in Reviews

My Childhood **** (1972, Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith) – Classic Movie Review 8807

The Bill Douglas Trilogy, made on tiny budgets from the British Film Institute, are dour and downbeat, highly personal autobiographical films, but they cast a remarkable spell in terms of mood and emotion that is […]

Aug, 09

Coming to America ** (1988, Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones, Shari Headley, John Amos) – Classic Movie Review 8806

Director John Landis’s 1988 romantic comedy Coming to America represents a mild return to form for Eddie Murphy, engagingly playing Akeem Joffer, the powerful crown prince of the fictional African nation of Zamunda, who comes […]

Aug, 08

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

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

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

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