Derek Winnert

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Free State of Jones **** (2016, Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali) – Movie Review

Matthew McConaughey stars as disillusioned Confederate army deserter Newton Knight, a defiant Southern farmer who returns to Mississippi and leads a militia of fellow deserters, runaway slaves and women in an armed rebellion against the corrupt […]

Oct, 02

Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams **** (1973, Joanne Woodward, Martin Balsam, Sylvia Sidney, Ron Rickards, Dori Brenner, Tresa Hughes) – Classic Movie Review 4251

Joanne Woodward is superb as Rita, a middle aged, menopausal New York City homemaking mother who falls apart when her mother (Thirties star Sylvia Sidney in her first film for 17 years) dies suddenly. Rita’s emotional […]

Aug, 27

Figures in a Landscape ** (1970, Robert Shaw, Malcolm McDowell, Henry Woolf, Christopher Malcolm, Pamela Brown) – Classic Movie Review 4245

Figures in a Landscape is an ambitious, arty 1970 film from distinguished producer-director Joseph Losey about two men, MacConnachie and Ansell (Robert Shaw and Malcolm McDowell), being chased through open spaces in an unspecified country by […]

Aug, 27

The Escape Artist *** (1982, Raul Julia, Griffin O’Neal, Desi Arnaz, Joan Hackett, Gabriel Dell) – Classic Movie Review 4070

Director Caleb Deschanel’s nicely offbeat 1982 children’s movie follow-up to the 1979 The Black Stallion stars Ryan O’Neal’s son Griffin, who makes an appealing acting début in this attractively oddball saga of a teenage amateur […]

Jul, 23

Eva **** (1962, Stanley Baker, Jeanne Moreau, Virna Lisi, James Villiers, Lisa Gastoni) – Classic Movie Review 3999

Director Joseph Losey’s beautiful looking, smart and clever 1962 erotic thriller is based on the 1945 novel Eve by James Hadley Chase (1906–1985), author of No Orchids for Miss Blandish, his first book filmed in 1948 […]

Jul, 11

Deadly Advice ** (1994, Jane Horrocks, Brenda Fricker, Imelda Staunton, Jonathan Pryce) – Classic Movie Review 3959

Director Mandie Fletcher’s 1994 British black comedy is a sometimes funny but often uneasy experience, though it comes through with an excellent cast on good form. Jane Horrocks and Imelda Staunton give expert and amusingly oddball […]

Jul, 01

The Royal Hunt of the Sun *** (1969, Robert Shaw, Christopher Plummer, Nigel Davenport, Leonard Whiting) – Classic Movie Review 3818

British playwright Sir Peter Shaffer had his first big theatre hit in 1964 with The Royal Hunt of the Sun, a drama about the Spanish conquest of Peru that was staged by Britain’s newly founded National Theatre. […]

Jun, 07

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