Derek Winnert

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 · 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 · in Reviews

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 7,655

The 1968 film Live a Little, Love a Little is an easy-going, good-natured, very old-fashioned musical-comedy vehicle for Elvis Presley. Director Norman Taurog’s 1968 film Live a Little, Love a Little is an easy-going, good-natured, […]

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

The Mean Season **** (1985, Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Jordan, Richard Masur, Richard Bradford, Joe Pantoliano, Andy Garcia) – Classic Movie Review 7,652

Phillip Borsos’s 1985 American neo noir thriller film The Mean Season is a gripping, powerful, atmospheric crime thriller with an excellent role for Kurt Russell as a Miami newspaper reporter used as a public mouthpiece […]

Oct, 09

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