Derek Winnert

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Let It Be ***½ (1970, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr) – Classic Movie Review 4875

Director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s candid, award-winning 1970 British music documentary Let It Be is 81 minutes of Beatles bliss, photographed shot in 16mm in Technicolor by Anthony B Richmond, and edited down from hundreds of hours […]

Jan, 11

Let’s Spend the Night Together ***½ (1983, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, Ronnie Wood, Ian Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 4644

Cinematographers Caleb Deschanel and Gerald Feil hold the cameras while The Rolling Stones provide the music in director Hal Ashby’s exhilarating 1983 concert feature film documentary. It was shot during their 1981 US tour shows in […]

Nov, 13

Light of Day ** (1987, Michael J Fox, Gena Rowlands, Joan Jett, Michael McKean) – Classic Movie Review 4155

Writer-director Paul Schrader’s 1987 youth, family and music drama movie hardly saw the light of day despite its cult film-maker, a hot new star in Michael J Fox who had just hit the big time, and its […]

Aug, 10

Love & Mercy **** (2014, John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Giamatti) – Movie Review

The story of the Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson makes for an excellent, riveting movie. It is grippingly told and imaginatively filmed by director Bill Pohlad. The screenplay by Oren Moverman and Michael Alan Lerner has a […]

Jul, 01

Batman Forever ***½ (1995, Val Kilmer, Chris O’Donnell, Nicole Kidman, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Drew Barrymore, Debi Mazar, Michael Gough, Pat Hingle) – Classic Movie Review 523

Batman returns for an enjoyable third outing in director Joel Schumacher’s 1995 movie, with an intriguing new cast as well as director. It lacks the class of the first two Tim Burton movies, Batman and Batman Returns, but […]

Dec, 15

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