Derek Winnert

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The Black Rider ** (1954, Jimmy Hanley, Rona Anderson, Leslie Dwyer, Lionel Jeffries, Beatrice Varley, Vincent Ball, Edwin Richfield, Kenneth Connor) – Classic Movie Review 4080

Director Wolf Rilla’s 1954 double-feature thriller starts with an idea as old as the hills about a gang of crooks who are apparently haunting a ruined castle. Jimmy Hanley stars as the young reporter and amateur […]

Jul, 25

Into the Storm ** (2014, Richard Armitage, Sarah Wayne Callies, Matt Walsh) – Movie Review

Director Steven Quale’s disaster B-movie takes a stale idea borrowed from Twister, adds a played-out found footage idea, boring characters, a tiny plot and cheesy dialogue, casts a bunch of lost-looking B-movie actors giving bad performances, and […]

Aug, 21

Swimming with Sharks **** (1994, Kevin Spacey, Frank Whaley, Michelle Forbes, Benicio Del Toro, Jerry Levine, T E Russell, Roy Dotrice) – Classic Movie Review 1028

Writer-director George Huang’s dark 1994 black comedy crime psychological drama Swimming with Sharks finds Kevin Spacey playing one of the main sharks swimming in the Hollywood pool in this thrillingly-acted, involving and quite engrossingly written Tinseltown […]

Mar, 31

Open Range **** (2003, Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall, Diego Luna, Annette Bening, Michael Gambon) – Classic Movie Review 691

With director Kevin Costner’s 2003 movie Open Range, the old-style epic Western is back, at least for this one-off. And it’s a great one – as cattlemen Charley Waite and Boss Spearman (played by Kevin Costner […]

Jan, 17

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation *** (1989, Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Juliette Lewis, Johnny Galecki) – Classic Movie Review 569

Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo welcome in a disaster-strewn Griswold-style Christmas with their two kids (Johnny Galecki, Juliette Lewis), in their third Vacation movie. Yule crack up, or yule be sorry you started watching this? […]

Dec, 23

Bridget Jones’s Diary *** (2001, Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant) – Classic Movie Review 371

Dear diary, It’s April 13 2001. This morning I got up, had a fag, went to work, was fed up as usual, and I wanted to see a good movie in the evening. So I […]

Nov, 06

Working Girl **** (1988, Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver) – Classic Movie Review 198

Melanie Griffith is at her appealing, lovely best as top Wall Street secretary Tess McGill in Mike Nichols’s delicious, vintage-style 1988 romantic comedy Working Girl, an infectiously happy feel-good tale of much-deserved comeuppance. You know, the […]

Aug, 28

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