Derek Winnert

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A Haunting in Venice **½ (2023, Kenneth Branagh, Kyle Allen, Camille Cottin, Jamie Dornan, Tina Fey, Michelle Yeoh) – Classic Movie Review 12,643

Agatha Christie’s 1969 detective novel Hallowe’en Party is re-titled, reworked and transposed from England to Venice as the third of Kenneth Branagh’s Hercule Poirot films, the 2023 mystery crime drama A Haunting in Venice. Agatha […]

Sep, 16

My Forbidden Past *** (1951, Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 11,256

The 1951 black and white romantic crime drama My Forbidden Past stars Ava Gardner as lady with a secret Barbara Beaurevelle, who plots heartless revenge on Dr Mark Lucas (Robert Mitchum). Director Robert Stevenson’s 1951 […]

May, 31

Hell Fest * (2018, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Reign Edwards, Amy Forsyth, Christian James, Tony Todd) – Movie Review

Director Gregory Plotkin’s Halloween-style slasher movie Hell Fest finds a generic masked serial killer terrorising a group of fairly dim friends at a horror-themed amusement park for no particular reason. Alas the screenplay by Seth M Sherwood, Blair […]

Nov, 16

Halloween *** (2018, Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Haluk Bilginer, Will Patton) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director David Gordon Green’s 2018 Halloween reboot is good, intense, suspenseful and scary, a solid horror thriller, but no knockout. It has no new story to tell – how could it? – but it […]

Oct, 26

The Predator * (2018, Boyd Holbrook, Olivia Munn, Trevante Rhodes, Jacob Tremblay, Thomas Jane, Alfie Allen, Keegan-Michael Key) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Shane Black’s The Predator is just no good, telling a plodding, uninvolving new story boringly set in the streets of small-town suburbia, with uninteresting, underdeveloped characters, a motley crew of unfascinating actors, sadistic violence, […]

Sep, 15

Clownhouse ** (1989, Nathan Forrest Winters, Brian McHugh, Sam Rockwell) – Classic Movie Review 6954

Writer-director Victor Salva’s first feature Clownhouse is a creepy 1989 American slasher horror film with a fairly high body count. Nathan Forrest Winters, Brian McHugh and Sam Rockwell (in his film debut) play Casey and his older brothers Geoffrey […]

Apr, 22

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers ** (1989, Donald Pleasence, Danielle Harris, Ellie Cornell, Beau Starr) – Classic Movie Review 4244

Co-writer/ director Dominique Othenin-Girard’s 1989 fifth episode in the long-running slasher franchise finds the masked maniac Michael Myers back on the rampage yet again in what is easily the worst installment so far. Michael Jacobs’s […]

Aug, 26

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