Derek Winnert

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Sextette * (1978, Mae West, Tony Curtis, Ringo Starr, Dom DeLuise, Timothy Dalton, George Hamilton, Alice Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 6225

Director Ken Hughes’s 1978 trainwreck of a film is the ludicrous final fling by an 85-year-old Mae West, acting out a story based on her own play about an ageing love goddess called Marlo Manners, […]

Nov, 10

Punchline *** (1988, Sally Field, Tom Hanks, John Goodman) – Classic Movie Review 6176

Writer-director David Seltzer’s talented 1988 comedy drama teams Sally Field with Tom Hanks. Double Oscar-winner Field packs a punch as Lilah Krytsick, a New Jersey housewife with a burning ambition to be a stand-up comedienne. […]

Nov, 02

Jigsaw * (2017, Matt Passmore, Tobin Bell, Callum Keith Rennie, Hannah Emily Anderson, Clé Bennett) – Movie Review

Eleanor Bonneville: ‘It’s Jigsaw.’ Logan Nelson: ‘Jigsaw’s dead.’ Eleanor Bonneville: ‘Is he?’ The Spierig Brothers’ tediously gruesome and grisly reboot of the Saw franchise is as disgusting and revolting as it is stale and pointless. […]

Oct, 28

Downsizing ** (2017, Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, Kristen Wiig, Rolf Lassgård, Udo Kier) – Movie Review 

Co-writer/ director Alexander Payne’s ecologically minded sci-fi social satire follows the story of kindly married occupational therapist Paul Safranek (Matt Damon), who undergoes a a newly invented procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so […]

Oct, 15

Thelma ** (2017, Eili Harboe, Kaya Wilkins, Henrik Rafaelsen, Ellen Dorrit Petersen) – Movie Review 

Co-writer / director Joachim Trier’s Norwegian romantic mystery supernatural drama stars Eili Harboe as a college-age young woman called Thelma, who is definitely looking for her Louise. Thelma finds her in the shape of Anja (Kaya […]

Oct, 15

Beast ** (2017, Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn, Geraldine James, Trystan Gravelle) – Movie Review 

Writer-director Michael Pearce’s 2017 British feature debut drama, the twisty indie thriller Beast, starts quite well, proceeds fairly well, then gets messy mid way and loses it in the last half hour. Jessie Buckley stars as disturbed 28-year-old […]

Sep, 18

Untamed *** (1929, Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Ernest Torrence, Holmes Herbert, Gwen Lee, Lloyd Ingraham) – Classic Movie Review 5954

Following her star-making role of Diana Medford in the hit silent Our Dancing Daughters (1928), Joan Crawford’s first talkie, Untamed (1929), was made during the difficult period of MGM’s transition from silent to sound movies. But it was another success for Crawford, propelling her […]

Aug, 22

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