Derek Winnert

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The Woman in Black * (2012, Daniel Radcliffe, Janet McTeer, Ciarán Hinds) – Classic Movie Review 10,205

The Woman in Black (2012) is an exceptionally dull and tame ghost story that has little going for it apart from Daniel Radcliffe’s strong central performance as London solicitor Arthur Kipps, grieving over the death […]

Aug, 21

The Phantom Light *** (1935, Binnie Hale, Gordon Harker, Ian Hunter, Donald Calthrop, Milton Rosmer, Herbert Lomas) – Classic Movie Review 7957

In his minor 1935 early effort The Phantom Light, director Michael Powell injects a strong, haunting atmosphere into a jovial suspense comedy-thriller yarn set around a supposedly haunted Welsh lighthouse, whose keeper has earlier been […]

Dec, 29

High Spirits ** (1988, Peter O’Toole, Steve Guttenberg, Daryl Hannah, Beverly d’Angelo, Jennifer Tilly, Liam Neeson, Peter Gallagher, Ray McAnally) – Classic Movie Review 3360

High Spirits is a gleeful chunk of Irish blarney from the usually heavyweight writer-director Neil Jordan. The critical success of Jordan’s early movies led him from Ireland to Hollywood, where he directed High Spirits and […]

Feb, 14

The Uninvited ****½ (1944, Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Gail Russell, Donald Crisp) – Classic Movie Review 2279

Director Lewis Allen’s 1944 classic supernatural mystery romance is a superlatively spooky ghost story, treated admirably seriously, about a brother and sister (Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey) having a holiday on Cornwall, where they fall in love with, […]

Mar, 18

The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death ** (2014, Phoebe Fox, Jeremy Irvine, Helen McCrory) – Movie Review

It’s now 40 years after the events of 2012’s original with the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, and World War Two London is being bombed by the Germans in the Blitz. So a group of […]

Dec, 31

The Haunting *** (1999, Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Owen Wilson, Lili Taylor, Bruce Dern) – Classic Movie Review 997

American movies fans forked out more than $100 million for director Jan de Bont’s daft but ingenious and amusing 1999 supernatural chiller. It’s the old, old haunted house story. With no acting really required, Liam […]

Mar, 26

The Conjuring **** (2013, Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Ron Livingston, Lili Taylor) – Movie Review

Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga star in The Conjuring (2013) as real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, who are just the dynamic duo to help a terrorised couple (Ron Livingston, Lili Taylor) and their […]

Aug, 02

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