Derek Winnert

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The Hawaiians *** (1970, Charlton Heston, Tina Chen, Geraldine Chaplin, John Phillip Law, Alec McCowen, Mako) – Classic Movie Review 8455

Director Tom Gries’s 1970 adventure film The Hawaiians [Master of the Islands] is the continuing history of James Michener’s huge novel Hawaii, as conjured up by the best minds of Hollywood, with Charlton Heston, as […]

May, 10

Too Late the Hero **** (1970, Michael Caine, Cliff Robertson, Ian Bannen, Denholm Elliott, Henry Fonda, Harry Andrews, Ronald Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 8452

Co-writer/ producer / director Robert Aldrich turns in another tough war film in his 1970 Too Late the Hero, with rousing action, funny dialogue and an exciting climax. Michael Caine is engaging in one of […]

May, 10

Sunset [Napszállta] **** (2018, Juli Jakab, Vlad Ivanov, Tom Pilath, Susanne Wuest, Evelin Dobos) – Movie Review

Writer-director László Nemes’s Sunset [Napszállta] is the most challenging film of the 2018 London Film Festival – challenging to understand, challenging to stay awake, challenging to stay the course, oh and did I say challenging to understand? Juli […]

Oct, 16

In Fabric **** (2018, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Julian Barratt, Steve Oram, Fatma Mohamed, Jaygann Ayeh, Leo Bill, Hayley Squires) – Movie Review

Writer-director Peter Strickland’s In Fabric is an often hilarious black comedy ghost story about a cursed red dress that comes from an English department store winter sales and passes from person to person, with the […]

Oct, 16

HealtH ** (1980, Carol Burnett, Glenda Jackson, James Garner, Lauren Bacall, Dick Cavett, Paul Dooley) – Classic Movie Review 7669

Director Robert Altman’s 1989 comedy HealtH tries but fails to repeat the success of his 1978 triumph A Wedding in another starry satire, this time about a health food convention at a luxury hotel in Florida’s […]

Oct, 16

Suspiria ** (2018, Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Grace Moretz, Angela Winkler, Mia Goth) – Movie Review

You’ve got to hand it to Luca Guadagnino. He’s gone from one of the best movies at the 2107 London Film Festival – Call Me by Your Name – to one of the worst in […]

Oct, 16

Destroyer ** (2018, Nicole Kidman, Toby Kebbell, Tatiana Maslany, Jade Pettyjohn, Sebastian Stan, Scoot McNairy, Bradley Whitford) – Movie Review

Nicole Kidman stars in Destroyer (2018) as burnt-out LAPD detective Erin Bell, who turns up at the scene of a murder, and then reconnects with members of a California desert gang from her tragic undercover […]

Oct, 15

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