Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

The Last Temptation of Christ *** (1988, Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey) – Classic Movie Review 7034

Director Martin Scorsese’s 1988 movie about the life of Jesus Christ is one of the most controversial films of the Eighties, and it is a daring, difficult and important work. It was greeted, expectedly, mainly […]

May, 10 · in Reviews

A Man Called Horse **** (1970, Richard Harris, Judith Anderson, Jean Gascon, Manu Tupou) – Classic Movie Review 7033

Director Elliot Silverstein’s 1970 movie A Man Called Horse is a stirring, ambitious adult Western with convincing performances from Richard Harris, Manu Tupou as the Indian chief Yellow Hand, and Judith Anderson as his noble […]

May, 10 · in Reviews

They Live *** (1988, Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster) – Classic Movie Review 7032

The Earth has been taken over by aliens who look like us, and only construction worker drifter Nada (Roddy Piper) and a small band of humans equipped with special sunglasses can see them in our […]

May, 10

A Man Called Gannon *** (1968, Anthony Franciosa, Michael Sarrazin, Judi West) – Classic Movie Review 7031

Tony Franciosa stars as a cowpoke drifter who takes a tenderfoot kid (Michael Sarrazin) under his wing and helps a widow rancher (Judi West) in a range war, in the 1968 Western A Man Called […]

May, 10

Man Without a Star **** (1955, Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, Claire Trevor) – Classic Movie Review 7030

Director King Vidor’s 1955 Western rounds up the usual familiar Fifties ingredients: Kirk Douglas as a lonesome cowboy and a stock situation in which his roving drifter character Dempsey Rae works as foreman for a female […]

May, 10

Masterson of Kansas * (1954, George Montgomery, Nancy Gates, James Griffith, Jean Willes, William Henry, David Bruce, Bruce Cowling) – Classic Movie Review 7029

Given the wealth of material available in the legends surrounding these real-life characters, director William Castle’s 1954 movie is an unnecessarily dull Western about the trio of famous gunslingers Bat Masterson (George Montgomery), Doc Holliday […]

May, 10

Masters of the Universe **** (1987, Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella, Meg Foster, Billy Barty, Courteney Cox) – Classic Movie Review 7,028

Director Gary Goddard’s 1987 sci-fi fantasy action adventure film Masters of the Universe stars the Scandinavian super-hunk Dolph Lundgren, who gets a grand chance to flex his muscles as comic-strip heroic warrior hero He-Man, who […]

May, 10

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