Derek Winnert

No Blade of Grass *** (1970, Nigel Davenport, Jean Wallace, Patrick Holt, Lynne Frederick, John Hamill) – Classic Movie Review 7626

Writer/ producer/ director Cornel Wilde came to Britain to direct the 1970 eco-warrior movie No Blade of Grass, a green-friendly, concerned and often involving sci-fi action thriller, which stars his wife Jean Wallace, along with […]

Sep, 29 · in Reviews

Shaft’s Big Score! *** (1972, Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Drew Bundini Brown, Joseph Mascolo, Julius W Harris, Joe Santos) – Classic Movie Review 7625

Richard Roundtree recreates the role of hardboiled Harlem private eye John Shaft in director Gordon Parks’ s 1972 blaxploitation action crime thriller Shaft’s Big Score!, the tip-top first sequel to the enormously successful 1971 original […]

Sep, 29 · in Reviews

Shaft in Africa *** (1973, Richard Roundtree, Frank Finlay, Vonetta McGee) – Classic Movie Review 7624

Director John Guillermin’s 1973 action thriller Shaft in Africa is the third and final original Shaft movie, with Richard Roundtree starring again. It largely maintains the quality and toughness of the first two films, thanks […]

Sep, 29

Night School * (2018, Kevin Hart, Tiffany Haddish, Ben Schwartz, Taran Killam, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Anne Winters, Rob Riggle, Romany Malco, Jacob Batalon, Keith David) – Movie Review

Let’s try to avoid crushing a walnut with a steamroller. Director Malcolm D Lee’s raucous 2018 back to school comedy fails the grade. Night School is not only just lame and illogical, but it is […]

Sep, 29

Blue Denim [Blue Jeans] *** (1959, Carol Lynley, Brandon De Wilde, Macdonald Carey, Marsha Hunt, Vaughn Taylor, Warren Berlinger) – Classic Movie Review 7623

Director Philip Dunne’s 1959 drama Blue Denim [Blue Jeans in GB] is a still-fresh-seeming pioneering film on the theme of teenage pregnancy and abortion, and the actors and director Dunne keep it well ahead of […]

Sep, 29

Border [Gräns] **** (2018, Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Viktor Åkerblom) – Movie Review

There’s a very strange-looking woman at the Border, a customs officer who seems able to sniff out the guilty as they come through customs. She really can sniff out trouble, smelling out guilt, and shame and sin […]

Sep, 28

Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion [Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto] **** (1970, Gian Maria Volontè, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio) – Classic Movie Review 7622

Co-writer/ director Elio Petri’s admirable Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion [Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto] stars Gian Maria Volontè as a newly elevated police inspector in charge of murder […]

Sep, 27

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