Derek Winnert

Booksmart * (2019, Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein, Jessica Williams, Skyler Gisondo) – Movie Review

The 2019 film Booksmart motors on fast-talking, fast-moving smart and sassy energy. Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein play besties Amy and Molly to the full-on max. If this is the American booksmart Class of ’19, […]

May, 24 · in Reviews

The Jigsaw Man * (1983, Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier, Susan George, Robert Powell, Charles Gray) – Classic Movie Review 8494

Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier, the stars of the 1972 Sleuth, reunited for director Terence Young’s disastrously disappointing 1984 British double agent spy thriller The Jigsaw Man, which was afflicted by money problems and halted […]

May, 24 · in Reviews

Aladdin ** (2019, Will Smith, Mena Massoud, Naomi Scott) – Movie Review

Disney’s live-action remake of Aladdin is painless – apart from a couple of the more strident songs (Speechless) – and entertaining enough. But it is slightly sluggish and undynamic, with some clumsy, slack comedy and […]

May, 23

Ghost Story *** (1981, Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, John Houseman, Craig Wasson, Patricia Neal, Alice Krige) – Classic Movie Review 8493

Director John Irvin’s 1981 chiller Ghost Story tells an atmospheric horror tale that unfortunately does not add up to a sum of its individual fascinating parts: Peter Straub’s intriguing bestseller novel and a quartet of […]

May, 23

Sword of the Valiant ** (1984, Miles O’Keeffe, Cyrielle Clair, Leigh Lawson, Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, John Rhys-Davies) – Classic Movie Review 8492

The 1984 adventure film Sword of the Valiant is a rerun of the story from Mallory’s epic poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Director Stephen Weeks wanted Mark Hamill as Gawain, but the producers […]

May, 22

Gawain and the Green Knight ** (1973, Murray Head, Ciaran Madden, Nigel Green) – Classic Movie Review 8491

Director Stephen Weeks’s 1973 adventure fantasy Gawain and the Green Knight is an adequate low-budget attempt to re-create the medieval tale from Mallory’s epic poem of the squire Gawain (Murray Head) who accepts the swordsman’s […]

May, 21

Ghost Story ** (1974, Marianne Faithfull, Barbara Shelley, Murray Melvin, Larry Dann, Vivian MacKerrell) – Classic Movie Review 8490

The 1974 Ghost Story has Marianne Faithfull, horror queen Barbara Shelley’s final cinema film appearance, a killer doll, and the man who really was Withnail. Stephen Weeks’s third film (after I, Monster and Gawain and […]

May, 21

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