Derek Winnert

The Last Remake of Beau Geste ** (1977, Marty Feldman, Ann-Margret, Michael York, Peter Ustinov, Trevor Howard, James Earl Jones) – Classic Movie Review 7796

The hysterical bug-eyed comedian Marty Feldman co-writes (with Chris J Allen) and directs the 1977 foreign legion spoof comedy The Last Remake of Beau Geste, a daft but fairly enjoyable parody retelling of the classic […]

Nov, 17 · in Reviews

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald ** (2018, Eddie Redmayne, Johnny Depp, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Ezra Miller) – Movie Review

The second installment of J K Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts series set in the Wizarding World again stars Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander. Redmayne’s shambling, mumbling performance is dull, but not as dull as the movie, which […]

Nov, 17 · in Reviews

Hell Fest * (2018, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Reign Edwards, Amy Forsyth, Christian James, Tony Todd) – Movie Review

Director Gregory Plotkin’s Halloween-style slasher movie Hell Fest finds a generic masked serial killer terrorising a group of fairly dim friends at a horror-themed amusement park for no particular reason. Alas the screenplay by Seth M Sherwood, Blair […]

Nov, 16

Siberia *** (2018, Keanu Reeves, Ana Ularu, Boris Gulyarin, Ashley St George, Pasha D Lychnikoff, Veronica Ferres, Elliot Lazar, Rafael Petardi) – Movie Review

Director Matthew Ross’s romantic crime thriller Siberia (2018) is nice and tough and dark, and overall pretty good. Though it has many rough edges, it easy to go along with it for the unusual ride. […]

Nov, 16

Play It As It Lays ** (1972, Tuesday Weld, Anthony Perkins, Tammy Grimes, Adam Roarke) – Classic Movie Review 7,795

Frank Perry’s 1972 interesting and sincere but depressing drama film Play It As It Lays is based on Joan Didion’s novel, and stars Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld and Tammy Grimes. Director Frank Perry’s 1972 interesting […]

Nov, 16

Play It to the Bone *** (1999, Woody Harrelson, Antonio Banderas, Lolita Davidovich) – Classic Movie Review 7794

Writer-director Ron Shelton’s 1999 boxing movie Play It to the Bone is a quite hard-hitting drama about best friends Cesar Dominguez (Antonio Banderas) and Vince Boudreau (Woody Harrelson), washed-up middleweight boxers who dream of one […]

Nov, 16

The Long Duel ** (1967, Trevor Howard, Yul Brynner, Harry Andrews, Charlotte Rampling, Andrew Keir) – Classic Movie Review 7793

Director Ken Annakin’s 1967 British action adventure film The Long Duel stars Trevor Howard, Yul Brynner, Harry Andrews, Charlotte Rampling, and Andrew Keir, and tells of a ‘conflict of ideals and arms’ that is ‘fought […]

Nov, 15

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