Derek Winnert

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The Book of Life ** (1998, Martin Donovan, P J Harvey, Dave Simonds, Thomas Jay Ryan) – Classic Movie Review 7104

Writer-director Hal Hartley’s weird, serious-minded 1998 fantasy comedy satire The Book of Life is a self-styled controversial retelling of the Apocalypse. Martin Donovan stars as Jesus Christ, who arrives in New York on millennium eve […]

May, 28

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

End of Days *** (1999, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne, Robin Tunney, Rod Steiger, C C H Pounder, Kevin Pollak) – Classic Movie Review 6796

Director Peter Hyams’s exciting 1999 Sci-fi thriller stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, still in his prime as he takes on his biggest foe yet – Satan – played with great aplomb by Gabriel Byrne. Schwarzenegger’s character Jericho […]

Mar, 13

I Don’t Want to be Born * (1975, Joan Collins, Ralph Bates, Donald Pleasence, Eileen Atkins) – Classic Movie Review 5858

Director Peter Sasdy’s 1975 horror movie is a classically tatty example of Seventies British schlock cinema. Game for absolutely anything, always, old trouper Joan Collins does her stalwart best in one of the parts she […]

Aug, 05

Les Visiteurs du Soir ***** (1942, Arletty, Alain Cuny, Fernand Ledoux, Marie Déa, Marcel Herrand, Jules Berry) Classic Movie Review 5272

Arletty and Alain Cuny star as minstrels Dominique and Gilles in this enchanting 1942 wartime classic from director Marcel Carné. They arrive at the Baron Hugues (Fernand Ledoux)’s castle in 1485 while the betrothal of […]

Apr, 09

The Phantom of the Opera ** (1989, Robert Englund, Jill Schoelen, Alex Hyde-White, Bill Nighy) – Classic Movie Review 5103

This 1989 big-screen remake of the famous Gaston Leroux novel had a convoluted production history. It was to be directed by John Hough and released by Cannon Films but Menahem Golan’s new 21st Century Film Corporation picked it up, […]

Mar, 05

Repossessed * (1990, Linda Blair, Ned Beatty, Leslie Nielsen) – Classic Movie Review 4886

Writer-director Bob Logan somehow managed in 1990 to persuade Linda Blair back to her most famous moment and she gleefully sends up both herself and The Exorcist (1973) movie that once made her world renowned. […]

Jan, 14

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