Derek Winnert

Stranger Than Paradise *** (1984, John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson) – Classic Movie Review 8250

Writer-director Jim Jarmusch’s 1984 black and white road-movie comedy drama Stranger than Paradise is aimless yet charming. It turns a lazily hipster eye on two New York deadbeats Willie and Eddie (played by John Lurie […]

Mar, 17 · in Reviews

The Aftermath ** (2019, Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgård, Jason Clarke, Fionn O’Shea, Kate Phillips, Martin Compston) – Movie Review

The Aftermath (2019) is slow, dull, yawn-inducing retro cinema, with a plodding, predictable story that has one or two good scenes but barely entertains at all. Where is its relevance? Where is its fascination and […]

Mar, 16 · in Reviews

Red Heat *** (1988, Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Belushi, Peter Boyle, Ed O’Ross, Larry Fishburne, Gina Gershon) – Classic Movie Review 8249

Director Walter Hill’s 1988 action thriller Red Heat stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as Russian lawman Captain Ivan Danko of the Soviet State Police, who is sent to Chicago to pick up a drug dealer, dangerous Georgian […]

Mar, 15

Strange Interlude ** (1932, Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Alexander Kirkland, May Robson, Ralph Morgan, Robert Young, Maureen O’Sullivan, Henry B Walthall) – Classic Movie Review 8,248

MGM’s curious 1932 drama Strange Interlude stars Norma Shearer and Clark Gable, and is based on a play by Eugene O’Neill, who called it ‘a dreadful hash of attempted condensation and idiotic censorship.’ Director Robert […]

Mar, 15

The Red House **** (1947, Edward G Robinson, Lon McCallister, Judith Anderson, Allene Roberts, Julie London, Rory Calhoun) – Classic Movie Review 8247

Writer-director Delmer Daves’s 1947 black and white psychological thriller The Red House (also known as No Trespassing) is based on a novel by George Agnew Chamberlain, published in 1943 by Popular Library, and stars Edward G […]

Mar, 15

The Fox *** (1967, Sandy Dennis, Keir Dullea, Anne Heywood, Glyn Morris) – Classic Movie Review 8246

Director Mark Rydell’s once sensational but not overheated 1968 pioneering lesbian drama The Fox is taken from D H Lawrence’s novella about two women (Sandy Dennis as sickly, talky Jill Banford and Anne Heywood as […]

Mar, 14

Foxes *** (1980, Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, Sally Kellerman, Randy Quaid, Cherie Currie, Marilyn Kagan, Kandice Stroh, Adam Faith) – Classic Movie Review 8245

Director Adrian Lyne’s 1980 drama Foxes stars Jodie Foster as Jeanie, a teenager from a broken home who plays mother to three other young girls sharing a Los Angeles flat in the San Fernando Valley. […]

Mar, 14

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