Derek Winnert

The Big Chill **** (1983, Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline) – Classic Movie Review 7659

Director Lawrence Kasdan’s 1983 comedy drama The Big Chill is a sardonic and amusing look at a band of seven former college buddies from the radical Sixties who reunite for a friend’s funeral for a […]

Oct, 10 · in Reviews

The World According to Garp **** (1982, Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close, John Lithgow) – Classic Movie Review 7658

Director George Roy Hill’s 1982 comedy drama The World According to Garp brings John Irving’s novel to the screen with its clever quirkiness and humour intact thanks to writer Steve Tesich’s intelligent adaptation and director […]

Oct, 10 · in Reviews

Beast of Blood ** (1970, John Ashley, Celeste Yarnall, Eddie Garcia) – Classic Movie Review 7657

‘See Human Heads Transplanted!’ ‘See natives eaten alive by giant vultures!’ Directed Eddie Romero’s low-budget (between $125,000 and $200,000) 1970 Filipino horror film Beast of Blood [released in the UK as Blood Devils] is the sequel to The Mad Doctor […]

Oct, 10

Eve ** (1968, Robert Walker Jr, Fred Clark, Herbert Lom, Christopher Lee, Celeste Yarnall) – Classic Movie Review 7656

Director Jeremy Summers’s campy 1968 adventure thriller Eve stars the 24-year-old Celeste Yarnall as the central character Eve, along with Robert Walker Jr, Fred Clark, Herbert Lom, and Christopher Lee. Eve is advertised as ‘The Original Flower Child’, which is how Celeste Yarnall (1944 […]

Oct, 10

Live a Little, Love a Little ** (1968, Elvis Presley, Michele Carey, Don Porter, Rudy Valee, Dick Sargent, Sterling Holloway, Celeste Yarnall) – Classic Movie Review 7655

Director Norman Taurog’s 1968 Live a Little, Love a Little is an easy-going, good-natured, very old-fashioned musical-comedy vehicle for Elvis Presley. It was way out of step with the times back in 1968 but seems […]

Oct, 09

The Best of Times ** (1986, Robin Williams, Kurt Russell, Pamela Reed, Holly Palance, Donald Moffat, M Emmet Walsh, R G Armstrong) – Classic Movie Review 7654

Director Roger Spottiswoode’s 1986 The Best of Times is the first of three 1986 flop films that the late great Robin Williams made in his own worst of box-office times, playing Jack Dundee, a mild, bespectacled […]

Oct, 09

Winter People *** (1989, Kurt Russell, Kelly McGillis, Lloyd Bridges) – Classic Movie Review 7653

Director Ted Kotcheff’s 1989 period drama Winter People stars Kurt Russell as young widower Wayland Jackson, arriving in a North Carolina mountain town with his daughter Paula (Amelia Burnette) in 1934, falls for young unmarried […]

Oct, 09

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