Derek Winnert

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Hell Fest * (2018, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Reign Edwards, Amy Forsyth, Christian James, Tony Todd) – Movie Review

Director Gregory Plotkin’s Halloween-style slasher movie Hell Fest finds a generic masked serial killer terrorising a group of fairly dim friends at a horror-themed amusement park for no particular reason. Alas the screenplay by Seth M Sherwood, Blair […]

Nov, 16 · in Reviews

Siberia *** (2018, Keanu Reeves, Ana Ularu, Boris Gulyarin, Ashley St George, Pasha D Lychnikoff, Veronica Ferres, Elliot Lazar, Rafael Petardi) – Movie Review

Director Matthew Ross’s romantic crime thriller Siberia (2018) is nice and tough and dark, and overall pretty good. Though it has many rough edges, it easy to go along with it for the unusual ride. […]

Nov, 16 · in Reviews

Play It As It Lays ** (1972, Tuesday Weld, Anthony Perkins, Tammy Grimes, Adam Roarke) – Classic Movie Review 7795

Director Frank Perry’s 1972 interesting and sincere but depressing and ultimately disappointing drama Play It As It Lays is based on Joan Didion’s novel, and stars Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld and Tammy Grimes. Deception, divorce, […]

Nov, 16

Play It to the Bone *** (1999, Woody Harrelson, Antonio Banderas, Lolita Davidovich) – Classic Movie Review 7794

Writer-director Ron Shelton’s 1999 boxing movie Play It to the Bone is a quite hard-hitting drama about best friends Cesar Dominguez (Antonio Banderas) and Vince Boudreau (Woody Harrelson), washed-up middleweight boxers who dream of one […]

Nov, 16

The Long Duel ** (1967, Trevor Howard, Yul Brynner, Harry Andrews, Charlotte Rampling, Andrew Keir) – Classic Movie Review 7793

Director Ken Annakin’s 1967 British action adventure film The Long Duel stars Trevor Howard, Yul Brynner, Harry Andrews, Charlotte Rampling, and Andrew Keir, and tells of a ‘conflict of ideals and arms’ that is ‘fought […]

Nov, 15

They All Laughed ** (1981, Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, John Ritter, Patti Hansen, Dorothy Stratten, Colleen Camp, Elizabeth Peña) – Classic Movie Review 7792

They All Laughed is a brave, possibly foolhardy title for Peter Bogdanovich’s 1982 screwball romantic comedy, in which there are bubbles in the madcap caper but they largely fall flat. The tale of New York private […]

Nov, 15

The Boys in Company C **** (1978, Stan Shaw, Andrew Stevens, James Canning, Michael Lembeck, Craig Wasson, James Whitmore Jr, R Lee Ermey, Scott Hylands) – Classic Movie Review 7791

Co-writer/ director Sidney J Furie turns in a powerful attack on the follies and horrors of war in the 1978 war drama The Boys in Company C, one of the first major films about the […]

Nov, 15

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