Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

The Incredible Petrified World * (1959, John Carradine, Phyllis Coates, Robert Clarke, Allen Windsor) – Classic Movie Review 12,738

Jerry Warren’s amusingly silly and entertainingly horrid 1959 sci-fi-horror film The Incredible Petrified World stars down-on-their-luck actors John Carradine, Phyllis Coates, Robert Clarke and Allen Windsor. Great title, shame about the film.  Producer/ director Jerry […]

Dec, 02 · in Reviews

Catlow *** (1971, Yul Brynner, Leonard Nimoy, Richard Crenna, Daliah Lavi) – Classic Movie Review 12,737

The 1971 Western film Catlow stars Yul Brynner as a renegade outlaw planning to snatch $2 million while being hunted by his lawman buddy (Richard Crenna) and a vicious gunfighter (Leonard Nimoy). Quentin Tarantino named […]

Dec, 01 · in Reviews

The File of the Golden Goose * (1969, Yul Brynner, Edward Woodward, Charles Gray) – Classic Movie Review 12,736

Sam Wanamaker’s 1969 thriller film The File of the Golden Goose stars Yul Brynner as a US Treasury spy chasing a ring of counterfeiters called the Golden Goose in Britain, aided and abetted by London […]

Dec, 01

Red Istanbul [Rosso Istanbul] **½ (2017, Halit Ergenç, Nejat İşler, Tuba Büyüküstün, Serra Yılmaz, Mehmet Günsür, Zerrin Tekindor, Reha Özcan) – Classic Movie Review 12,735

Ferzan Özpetek’s subtle, smouldering 2017 film Red Istanbul stars Halit Ergenç as a Turkish writer who relives his relationships with friends, family and past loves when he returns to Istanbul to help a famous director […]

Dec, 01

Loose Cannons [Mine Vaganti] *** (2010, Riccardo Scamarcio, Alessandro Preziosi, Nicole Grimaudo, Lunetta Savino, Ennio Fantastichini, Ilaria Occhini) – Classic Movie Review 12,734

Riccardo Scamarcio stars in Ferzan Özpetek’s 2010 Italian comedy film Loose Cannons [Mine Vaganti] as pasta magnate’s gay son Tommaso, who decides to return to come out to his narrow-minded family in Southern Italy. His […]

Dec, 01

Mimi ** (1935, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Gertrude Lawrence, Diana Napier) – Classic Movie Review 12,733

The well-heeled 1935 British romantic film Mimi is based on Henri Murger’s 1851 novel La Vie de Bohème, and stars Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Gertrude Lawrence. Director Paul L Stein’s 1935 British black and white […]

Nov, 30

Being 17 [Quand on a 17 ans] **** (2016, Sandrine Kiberlain, Kacey Mottet Klein, Corentin Fila, Alexis Loret) – Classic Movie Review 12,732

André Téchiné’s 2016 French romantic drama Being 17 is a complex, emotional and mature film, with the focus on two teenage boys (Kacey Mottet Klein, Corentin Fila) and their story, but Sandrine Kiberlain deservedly gets […]

Nov, 29

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