Derek Winnert

Cutting Class ** (1989, Donovan Leitch Jr, Jill Schoelen, Brad Pitt, Roddy McDowall, Martin Mull, Brenda James) – Classic Movie Review 7511

As you can easily gather from the punning title of director Rospo Pallenberg’s 1989 whodunit teen horror movie Cutting Class, a knife-killer is cutting a swathe through the high school student body. The goodish cast […]

Aug, 29 · in Reviews

Valley of the Giants ** (1938, Wayne Morris, Claire Trevor, Charles Bickford, Frank McHugh, Alan Hale Sr, Donald Crisp) – Classic Movie Review 7510

  Director William Keighley’s 1938 Warner Bros adventure Valley of the Giants stars Wayne Morris and Charles Bickford as lumberjacks Bill Cardigan and Howard Fallon who battle over California’s Redwood trees, when Easterner wood thieves move in […]

Aug, 29 · in Reviews

The Big Trees *** (1952, Kirk Douglas, Eve Miller, Patrice Wymore, Edgar Buchanan, John Archer, Alan Hale Jr, Roy Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 7509

Director Felix E Feist’s 1952 adventure movie The Big Trees stars Kirk Douglas as timber baron John Fallon, the money-grabbing lumberman out to chop down California’s beautiful  giant sequoia redwood trees, in this ecologically sound […]

Aug, 28

The Evening Star ** (1996, Shirley MacLaine, Bill Paxton, Juliette Lewis, Miranda Richardson, Marion Ross, Donald Moffat, Scott Wolf, Jack Nicholson, Ben Johnson) – Classic Movie Review 7508

The grand evening star is Shirley MacLaine, who at the age of 62 revisits her Best Actress Oscar-winning role as Aurora Greenway in the film version of Larry McMurtry’s sequel to Terms of Endearment (1983). [Spoiler […]

Aug, 28

Terms of Endearment ***** (1983, Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson) – Classic Movie Review 7507

Director James L Brooks’s extraordinarily successful 1983 Terms of Endearment scooped up Five Oscars, including Best Picture (James L Brooks), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Shirley MacLaine), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Jack Nicholson), Best […]

Aug, 28

The Awakening ** (1980, Charlton Heston, Susannah York, Jill Townsend, Stephanie Zimbalist) – Classic Movie Review 7506

Mike Newell makes his debut as cinema director for the 1980 British horror movie The Awakening, a remake of the 1971 Hammer favourite Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb, and also another version of the 1903 Bram Stoker novel […]

Aug, 28

When Ladies Meet **** (1933, Ann Harding, Robert Montgomery, Myrna Loy, Alice Brady, Frank Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 7505

Director Harry Beaumont’s crackling 1933 MGM classic romantic comedy drama When Ladies Meet is the first of two film versions of Rachel Crothers’s sophisticated 1932 play, smartly shot in black and white by Ray June […]

Aug, 27

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