Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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

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

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