Derek Winnert

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Alice’s Restaurant **** (1969, Arlo Guthrie, Patricia Quinn, James Broderick) – Classic Movie Review 6334

‘You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant.’ Co-writer/ director Arthur Penn’s engaging, quirky, sometimes brilliant 1969 anti-establishment film perfectly captures the late-Sixties stop-the-Vietnam War spirit of the Arlo Guthrie song (‘The Alice’s Restaurant […]

Nov, 29

The Running Man *** (1987, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Yaphet Kotto, Jim Brown) – Classic Movie Review 6249

Can you believe that 13 November 2017 is already the 30th anniversary of the 1980s iconic sci-fi and fantasy film The Running Man? Stephen King’s novel provides director Paul Michael Glaser with the basis for his efficient if […]

Nov, 14

Palm Springs Weekend ** (1963, Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Ty Hardin, Robert Conrad, Stefanie Powers, Jerry Van Dyke) – Classic Movie Review 6242

‘IT’S WHERE THE BOYS ARE AND THE GIRLS ARE…that swingin’ vacation weekend when American youth descends on America’s swankiest playground!’ As a kind of follow-on from 1960’s Where the Boys Are, this one could have been […]

Nov, 13

Bad Lieutenant ***** (1992, Harvey Keitel, Frankie Thorn, Zoe Lund, Brian McElroy, Frank Acciarito) – Classic Movie Review 6127

Co-writer/ director Abel Ferrara’s eye-opening 1992 screen-scalder stars a career best Harvey Keitel, who is astonishing in a full-frontal performance as the kind of corrupt New York City police detective who steals drugs from a […]

Oct, 23

Unlawful Entry * (1992, Kurt Russell, Ray Liotta, Madeleine Stowe) – Classic Movie Review 6090

Kurt Russell and Madeleine Stowe star as a white middle-class married couple who call the cops when a black robber breaks into their LA suburban home. Ray Liotta plays one of the cops, a psychotic […]

Oct, 13

Night Falls on Manhattan **** (1996, Andy García, Richard Dreyfuss, Lena Olin, Ian Holm, James Gandolfini, Ron Leibman) – Classic Movie Review 6042

Sidney Lumet is on fine form with the excellent 1996 crime thriller film Night Falls on Manhattan starring Andy Garcia as newly elected District Attorney Sean Casey, keen to eradicate police corruption. Writer-director Sidney Lumet is on […]

Sep, 24

Mr Klein [Monsieur Klein] **** (1976, Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon, Michel Lonsdale, Louis Seigner, Juliet Berto, Francine Bergé) – Classic Movie Review 5837

Alain Delon is excellent as Monsieur Robert Klein in director Joseph Losey’s complex and fascinating 1976 mystery drama film Mr Klein, which follows a case of confused identity in Vichy France in 1942. Alain Delon […]

Jul, 31

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