Derek Winnert

The Edge of the World **** (1937, Niall MacGinnis, Belle Chrystall, John Laurie, Finlay Currie, Eric Berry ) – Classic Movie Review 7907

Writer-director Michael Powell puts heart and soul into The Edge of the World, his deeply felt and involving 1937 black and white film about life on Hirta, a bleak, remote Shetland Island, an Outer Hebridean […]

Dec, 15 · in Reviews

Let’s Do It Again *** (1975, Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Calvin Lockhart, Jimmie Walker, John Amos, Ossie Davis) – Classic Movie Review 7906

The team from Uptown Saturday Night does it again in director Sidney Poitier’s 1975 Let’s Do It Again, a ragged but effervescent farce sequel to the 1974 hit, with Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby back in […]

Dec, 15 · in Reviews

Uptown Saturday Night ***(1974, Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Harry Belafonte) – Classic Movie Review 7905

The then highly likeable star pair of Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby hit a profitable vein of Seventies-style broad comedy with the 1974 Uptown Saturday Night, a zany farcical tale of two innocents, Steve Jackson […]

Dec, 15

A Piece of the Action ***(1977, Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, James Earl Jones) – Classic Movie Review 7904

Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby team up to play con artists Manny Durrell and Dave Anderson in the meandering and schmaltzy, though endearing 1977 comedy drama A Piece of the Action. The two high-class sneak […]

Dec, 15

Brother John ** (1971, Sidney Poitier, Will Geer, Bradford Dillman, Beverly Todd) – Classic Movie Review 7903

Director James Goldstone’s 1971 drama Brother John is a pleasant, well-meaning, though peculiar and not too entertaining nor enlightening little fantasy movie, very much of its period. Sidney Poitier stars as Brother John Kane, a […]

Dec, 15

The House That Jack Built **** (2018, Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, Uma Thurman) – Movie Review

Writer-director Lars von Trier’s serial killer black comedy horror movie The House That Jack Built is an astonishing movie, astonishingly vile, sadistic, nasty and unpleasant, and astonishingly clever, brilliant and dazzling. Von Trier shows off the breadth and, […]

Dec, 14

Buck and the Preacher **(1972, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Cameron Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 7902

Sidney Poitier makes his directorial début with the unusual 1971 Western Buck and the Preacher concentrating on black characters, in which he also stars and teams with Harry Belafonte as escaped slaves going West. They […]

Dec, 13

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