Derek Winnert

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Pieces of April *** (2003, Katie Holmes, Oliver Platt, Patricia Clarkson, Sean Hayes, Derek Luke, Alison Pill) – Classic Movie Review 7909

Writer-director Peter Hedges’s 2003 Pieces of April stars Katie Holmes as flaky punk April Burns, whose family is coming to Thanksgiving dinner. But her oven is broken and she cannot cook, so she seeks help […]

Dec, 16

Troll * (1986, Michael Moriarty, Shelley Hack, Sonny Bono, June Lockhart, Noah Hathaway) – Classic Movie Review 7474

Director John Carl Buechler’s 1986 horror film Troll is fondly remembered but it is unconvincing and ridiculous throughout. It is bad, but unfortunately it is not quite in the so-bad-it’s good category. It is just […]

Aug, 20

My Sister Eileen **** (1955, Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Betty Garrett, Bob Fosse, Kurt Kasznar, Horace McMahon, Dick York, Tommy Rall) – Classic Movie Review 7260

Wacky Betty Garrett and alluring Janet Leigh star as Ohio country girls Ruth and Eileen Sherwood in co-writer/ director Richard Quine’s 1955 musical remake of Rosalind Russell’s 1942 comedy My Sister Eileen about the adventures […]

Jul, 06

Cult of the Cobra ** (1955, Faith Domergue, Richard Long, Marshall Thompson, Kathleen Hughes) – Classic Movie Review 7230

‘Can a woman’s beauty be changed to a thing of terror?’ Yes, apparently it can. Director Francis D Lyon’s 1955 American black-and-white horror film Cult of the Cobra stars Faith Domergue as Lisa Moya, who heads a […]

Jun, 28

Hardware *** (1990, Dylan McDermott, Stacey Travis, John Lynch) – Classic Movie Review 6407

Writer-director Richard Stanley’s 1990 British cult sci-fi horror thriller is a full-blooded, full-on shocker affair, with all systems go to combat a routine, derivative tale about a killer robot terrorising the heroine Jill Grakowski (Stacey […]

Dec, 14

Dark Water [Honogurai Mizu No Soko Kara] * (2002, Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi ) – Classic Movie Review 5692

Director Hideo Nakata’s 2002 Japanese horror movie focuses on a single mother (Hitomi Kuroki) and her five-year-old daughter (Rio Kanno) who move into a new apartment, where seeping water is a problem. Although there’s water […]

Jul, 02

Witness to Murder *** (1954, Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill) – Classic Movie Review 5344

Director Roy Rowland’s tense and tingling 1954 thriller provides an excellent Rear Window-style part for Barbara Stanwyck as Cheryl Draper, the solitary dame whose life is in danger from suave killer Albert Richter (George Sanders), […]

Apr, 25

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