Derek Winnert

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Dead Men Tell *** (1941, Sidney Toler, Sheila Ryan, Robert Weldon, Victor Sen Yung, Don Douglas, Kay Aldridge, George Reeves, Ethel Griffies) – Classic Movie Review 9035

Director Harry Lachman’s 1941 Dead Men Tell again stars Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan, who uncovers the murderer of eccentric old lady Miss Patience Nodbury (Ethel Griffies) – apparently scared stiff by a ghost! – […]

Oct, 31

Candyman **** (1992, Virginia Madsen, Kasi Lemmons, Xander Berkeley, DeJuan Guy, Tony Todd) – Classic Movie Review 6116

A Clive Barker story called The Forbidden is realised on screen with great vigour by screen-writer/ director Bernard Rose in this exciting, full-throttle 1992 horror movie. Virginia Madsen stars as the spunky heroine Helen Lyle, […]

Oct, 20

Hellraiser **** (1987, Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Doug Bradley) – Classic Movie Review 6113

Clive Barker writes and directs the classy, entertaining, graphically gruesome 1987 British horror movie Hellraiser, based on the story in his own 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart. Andrew Robinson and Clare Higgins star as Larry […]

Oct, 20

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer * (1998, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr, Brandy Norwood, Mekhi Phifer) – Classic Movie Review 3512

Director Danny Cannon’s grim 1998 horror film I Still Know What You Did Last Summer is an even more humourless, even more mechanical slasher movie sequel to the iffy 1997 hit I Know What You […]

Apr, 02

Hook ** (1991, Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Bob Hoskins, Julia Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 1421

Director Steven Spielberg’s 1991 family film is a long, lumbering and unwieldy, Disney-style version of J M Barrie’s Peter Pan fantasy tale. Unusually for a Spielberg movie, it lacks the magic spark it needs. Rather than making […]

Jul, 13

Peter Pan **** (2003, Jeremy Sumpter, Jason Isaacs, Olivia Williams, Richard Briers, Ludivine Sagnier, Lynn Redgrave, Geoffrey Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 789

Director P J Hogan’s 2003 movie Peter Pan is an excellent, often exhilarating live-action version of Sir James M Barrie’s story about Peter Pan (Jeremy Sumpter), the boy who flies to Never Never Land with […]

Feb, 02

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