Derek Winnert

Widows ** (2018, Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Robert Duvall, Colin Farrell, Brian Tyree Henry, Daniel Kaluuya, Liam Neeson, Cynthia Erivo) – Movie Review

Steve McQueen’s 2018 cinema version of Lynda La Plante’s masterly 1983 British TV mini-series Widows is both a posh art film and an exciting mainstream heist thriller, but only just. Something is lost on the […]

Oct, 10 · in Reviews

Silverado *** (1985, Kevin Kline, Kevin Costner, Scott Glenn, Danny Glover, John Cleese, Rosanna Arquette, Brian Dennehy, Jeff Goldblum, Linda Hunt, Jeff Fahey) – Classic Movie Review 7660

Lawrence Kasdan, fresh from Body Heat and The Big Chill, co-writes, produces and directs the 1985 Silverado, a visually resplendent movie telling a well-plotted Western tale about four drifters – Kevin Kline as Paden, Scott […]

Oct, 10 · in Reviews

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

The World According to Garp **** (1982, Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close, John Lithgow) – Classic Movie Review 7,658

George Roy Hill’s 1982 comedy drama film The World According to Garp brings John Irving’s novel to the screen with its clever quirkiness and humour intact. Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close and John […]

Oct, 10

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

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