Derek Winnert

Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx *** (1970, Gene Wilder, Margot Kidder, Eileen Colgan) – Classic Movie Review 8096

Director Waris Hussein’s 1970 comedy Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx stars the late lamented comedy genius Gene Wilder as an Irish dung-collector called Quackser, who crosses all kinds of barriers to romance […]

Feb, 05 · in Reviews

Last Night *** (1998, Don McKellar, Sandra Oh, Roberta Maxwell) – Classic Movie Review 8095

Writer-director Don McKellar’s 1998 drama Last Night is an incisive, cleverly done and capably acted Canadian oddity about a group of people gathering to face the end of the world that they are expecting immediately […]

Feb, 05 · in Reviews

The Last Movie *** (1971, Julie Adams, Dennis Hopper, Daniel Ades, Rod Cameron, Dean Stockwell) – Classic Movie Review 8094

A Hollywood film company arrives in a Peruvian village to shoot a Western about Billy the Kid (Dean Stockwell) in director Dennis Hopper’s 1971 The Last Movie, a high-flown allegorical fantasy drama in which he also […]

Feb, 05

The Monster of Piedras Blancas ** (1959, Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis, John Harmon) – Classic Movie Review 8093

Director Irvin Berwick’s 1959 horror movie The Monster of Piedras Blancas stars Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis and John Harmon. In writer H Haile Chace’s screenplay, a newly widowed lighthouse keeper called Sturges (Harmon) puts out […]

Feb, 05
All Is True *** (2018, Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen) – Movie Review

All Is True *** (2018, Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen) – Movie Review

Director Kenneth Branagh’s All Is True (2018) is a thoroughly enjoyable, bitter-sweet look the troubled final days of William Shakespeare. It is a good, honourable, solid, old-fashioned film – the kind the Brits ought to […]

Feb, 04

Q & A **** (1990, Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton, Armand Assante) – Classic Movie Review 8092

Nick Nolte gives a spellbinding performance as a raging New York cop called Mike Brennan under investigation by nice young assistant district attorney Al Reilly (Timothy Hutton) for killing a Hispanic drug dealer in writer-director […]

Feb, 04

Quadrophenia **** (1979, Phil Daniels, Mark Wingett, Philip Davis, Leslie Ash, Garry Cooper, Toyah Willcox, Daniel Peacock, Sting) – Classic Movie Review 8091

Director Franc Roddam’s 1979 The Who movie Quadrophenia is a successful and enjoyable trip back to the mods versus rockers seaside scraps of the mid-Sixties, with excellent performances from the rising young stars Phil Daniels, […]

Feb, 03

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