Derek Winnert

School’s Out [L’heure de la sortie] **** (2018, Laurent Lafitte, Luàna Bajrami, Emmanuelle Bercot, Victor Bonnel) – Movie Review

School’s Out stars as Monsieur Eric Capadis, the professor of French at the prestigious French College of St Joseph, jumps from the window in the middle of a class. Then the handsome, charming, honourable but […]

Sep, 26 · in Reviews

The Wife **** (2018, Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater, Elizabeth McGovern, Max Irons) – Movie Review

Swedish director Björn Runge’s 2018 The Wife is a hugely engaging and engrossing drama as Joan Castleman (Glenn Close) the wife of the title questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her writer […]

Sep, 25 · in Reviews

Great Guy ** (1936, James Cagney, Mae Clarke, James Burke) – Classic Movie Review 7620

James Cagney is the great guy here all right in director John G Blystone’s overly cost-conscious 1936 Great Guy [aka Pluck of the Irish], an independent production from poverty row studio Grand National Pictures, with the […]

Sep, 25

Two for Joy *** (2018, Samantha Morton, Emilia Jones, Billie Piper, Bella Ramsey, Badger Skelton, Daniel Mays) – Movie Review

Samantha Morton is exceptional as a mother deep in depression, in Tom Beard’s striking debut Two for Joy (2018), a bleak but rewarding slice of British social realism. Writer-director Tom Beard’s striking debut Two for Joy (2018) […]

Sep, 25

Russkies ** (1987, Whip Hubley, Joaquin Phoenix, Peter Billingsley) – Classic Movie Review 7619

Director Rick Rosenthal’s 1987 Russkies is the teen version of The Russians Are Coming! focusing on three American kids (including, playing Danny, River Phoenix’s brother Leaf, who later morphed into Joaquin Phoenix) who find a Russian […]

Sep, 25

Rustlers’ Rhapsody ** (1985, Tom Berenger, G W Bailey, Marilu Henner, Andy Griffith, Fernando Rey, Sela Ward, Patrick Wayne) – Classic Movie Review 7618

Writer-director Hugh Wilson’s 1985 comedy Western Rustlers’ Rhapsody stars likeable Tom Berenger, who is at home on the range here as Rex O’Herlihan, the greatest cowboy crooner of all time, in this affectionate, easy going […]

Sep, 24

Jumpin’ Jack Flash *** (1986, Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Collins, John Wood, Carol Kane, Annie Potts) – Classic Movie Review 7617

Director Penny Marshall’s 1986 fast-moving spy caper Jumpin’ Jack Flash stars Whoopi Goldberg (Oscar-winner for 1990’s Ghost) as a computer operator who keeps getting messages on her screen from a British agent trapped in Eastern Europe. […]

Sep, 23

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