Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

The Diamond [The Diamond Wizard] ** (1954, Dennis O’Keefe, Margaret Sheridan, Philip Friend, with Alan Wheatley, Francis de Wolff, Paul Hardtmuth) – Classic Movie Review 12,752

The 1954 British film noir crime thriller The Diamond [The Diamond Wizard] stars Dennis O’Keefe as a T-man in the UK on the trail of a syndicate making fake diamonds out of sugar. It is Britain’s first 3D film […]

Dec, 11 · in Reviews

Bailout at 43,000 ** (John Payne, Karen Steele, Paul Kelly, Richard Eyer, Constance Ford, Eddie Firestone) – Classic Movie Review 12,751

The 1957 American drama film Bailout at 43,000 is a moderate flag-waver about US airmen testing ejector seats for bombers, with Major Paul Peterson (John Payne) going through a guilt thing about not having to […]

Dec, 10 · in Reviews

Watercolors ***½ (2008, Tye Olson, Kyle Clare, Greg Louganis, Karen Black) – Classic Movie Review 12,750

The winning bitter-sweet 2008 romantic film Watercolors stars Tye Olson and Kyle Clare as classmates Danny and Carter, two boys who make a splash at love.  ‘Two boys make a splash at love.’  ‘Only art […]

Dec, 07

The Brotherhood of Satan ** (1971, Strother Martin, L Q Jones, Alvy Moore) – Classic Movie Review 12,749

The 1971 horror film The Brotherhood of Satan is a fairly scary, reasonably stylish little chiller, in which witch worship possesses a desert town in the grip of a cult of senior citizens recruiting the […]

Dec, 06

Walk East on Beacon ** (1952, George Murphy, Finlay Currie, Virginia Gilmore) – Classic Movie Review 12,748

The ‘Red threat’ of the Fifties was the main motivating influence – as well as J Edgar Hoover – behind the smooth 1952 Columbia Pictures drama thriller film Walk East on Beacon about the FBI […]

Dec, 06

Burning Days [Kurak Günler] **** (2022, Selahattin Pasali, Ekin Koç, Erol Babaoğlu, Erdem Şenocak, Seli̇n Yeni̇nci̇) – Classic Movie Review 12,747

The intense and stylish 2022 Turkish epic thriller film Burning Days stars Selahattin Pasali as the young new prosecutor in a Turkish small town hit by a water crisis and political scandals. He finds a […]

Dec, 06

Octane [Pulse] **½ (2003, Madeleine Stowe, Mischa Barton, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Norman Reedus) – Classic Movie Review 12,746

There are three good performances from Madeleine Stowe, Mischa Barton and Jonathan Rhys Meyers – plus capable and tense direction by Marcus Adams too – in the flavoursome, atmospheric, quite gripping little 2003 British horror […]

Dec, 04

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