Derek Winnert

Guest House Paradiso (1999, Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Bill Nighy, Kate Ashfield, Steven O’Donnell, Fenella Fielding, Vincent Cassel, Simon Pegg) – Classic Movie Review 7518

Director Adrian Edmondson’s debut feature, the appalling Guest House Paradiso (1999), is a nasty, witless, incredibly vulgar British slapstick black comedy that wastes so much top Nineties talent as well as the audience’s time and […]

Aug, 31 · in Reviews

Valdez Is Coming *** (1971, Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Frank Silvera, Jon Cypher, Richard Jordan) – Classic Movie Review 7517

The impressive 1971 Spanish-shot spaghetti Western film Valdez Is Coming stars Burt Lancaster in a character role as Bob Valdez, a Mexican-American sheriff who confronts a cattleman.  Director Edwin Sherin’s impressive 1971 Spanish-shot spaghetti Western […]

Aug, 30 · in Reviews

The Day of the Triffids *** (1963, Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore) – Classic Movie Review 7516

Director Steve Sekely’s 1962 British horror movie The Day of the Triffids is a disappointing but still fun and endearing version of John Wyndham’s extremely fine classic chiller novel about the meteor showers that blind […]

Aug, 30

The Valdez Horses [Valdez, il mezzosangue] [Chino] *** (1973, Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Vincent Van Patten, Marcel Bozzuffi) – Classic Movie Review 7514

Screen tough-guy Charles Bronson and his wife Jill Ireland star in director John Sturges’s unusual, entertaining 1973 Spanish-shot Spaghetti Western about a loner mixed-race Indian American horse breeder rancher called Chino Valdez (Bronson) who defends his horse […]

Aug, 30

Day of the Outlaw *** (1959, Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise, Alan Marshal, Venetia Stevenson, David Nelson, Nehemiah Persoff) – Classic Movie Review 7515

The 1959 Western film Day of the Outlaw stars Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise and Venetia Stevenson. It is directed by Andre DeToth, making his final Western. Philip Yordan called his script ‘one of […]

Aug, 30

Kalifornia *** (1993, Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, David Duchovny, Michelle Forbes) – Classic Movie Review 7513

Director Dominic Sena’s nasty and upsetting 1993 psycho-thriller movie Kalifornia is hopefully the last word on serial killers. Clever though it may be, it is a thoroughly dislikeable and unpleasant piece of work. It turned out, […]

Aug, 29

Too Young to Die? *** (1989, Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, Michael Tucker, Michael O’Keefe) – Classic Movie Review 7512

Young Juliette Lewis and Brad Pitt show a lot of class and charisma in director Robert Markowitz’s shocking 1989 true-story drama. It is written by David Hill and George Rubino, based on a fact-based story by David […]

Aug, 29

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