Derek Winnert

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Stick ** (1985, Burt Reynolds, Candice Bergen, George Segal, Charles Durning) – Classic Movie Review 7568

An Elmore Leonard novel about an ex-convict sucked into Florida’s drugs underworld is patchily transferred to the screen as a rickety crime action thriller vehicle for the always likeable Burt Reynolds, both as actor and […]

Sep, 13

The Canterville Ghost **** (1944, Charles Laughton, Robert Young, Margaret O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 6845

Sir Simon de Canterville: ‘Excuse me, I really must gibber at the oriole window.’ Director Jules Dassin’s 1943 fantasy comedy is freely based on the delightful Oscar Wilde story and is full of lighthearted whimsy […]

Mar, 23

Mom and Dad ** (2017, Nicolas Cage, Selma Blair, Anne Winters, Zackary Arthur) – Movie Review

Writer-director Brian Taylor’s Mom and Dad has its charms, though it is far from charming. To be fair, it doesn’t set out to be charming but nevertheless to charm you with its whacked-out sense (?) […]

Mar, 11

Demons of the Mind ** (1972, Paul Jones, Patrick Magee, Yvonne Mitchell, Robert Hardy, Gillian Hills, Michael Hordern, Shane Briant) – Classic Movie Review 6657

Robert Hardy stars as Zorn, a 19th-century Bavarian baron who keeps his teenaged children Elizabeth and Emil (Gillian Hills, Shane Briant) locked away and drugged for fear that the family insanity is hereditary. The madness is […]

Feb, 07

My Bodyguard **** (1980, Chris Makepeace, Adam Baldwin, Matt Dillon, Ruth Gordon, Martin Mull, John Houseman, Joan Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 6518

Director Tony Bill’s basically nice, warm-hearted and well-meaning 1980 youth-oriented drama stars Chris Makepeace (5′ 9″) as Clifford, a Chicago teen living with his dad Mr Peache (Martin Mull) and his Gramma (Ruth Gordon). When Clifford […]

Jan, 04

Blood Relatives [Les Liens de Sang] *** (1978, Donald Sutherland, Stéphane Audran, Donald Pleasence, David Hemmings, Aude Landry, Lisa Langlois) – Classic Movie Review 6268

This dark and mysterious 1978 sexual crime mystery chiller with an incest theme comes from the renowned French director Claude Chabrol, who gives his bleak-toned adaptation of an Ed McBain novel a touch of class. […]

Nov, 18

Amityville II: The Possession ** (1982, James Olson, Burt Young, Rutanya Alda, Jack Magner) – Classic Movie Review 6200

The Long Island haunted house from 1979’s The Amityville Horror tries to tingle the spines of the Montelli Italian-American family, who make the mistake of moving into the home built on an ancient Indian burial ground, in […]

Nov, 06

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