Derek Winnert

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Born Romantic ** (2000, Craig Ferguson, Jane Horrocks, Adrian Lester, Ian Hart, Catherine McCormack, Jimi Mistry, David Morrissey, Olivia Williams, Kenneth Cranham) – Classic Movie Review 4796

Writer-director David Kane’s 2000 British romantic comedy boasts a particularly good cast in Craig Ferguson, Jane Horrocks, Adrian Lester, Ian Hart, Catherine McCormack, Jimi Mistry, David Morrissey, Olivia Williams, and Kenneth Cranham. And it has […]

Dec, 18

Heartless ***½ (2009, Jim Sturgess, Timothy Spall, Luke Treadaway, Clémence Poésy, Eddie Marsan) – Classic Movie Review 3441

Jim Sturgess impresses again as Jamie Morgan, a young misfit photographer with a heart-shaped birthmark on his face, who finds the gangs terrorising his East London neighbourhood are murderous demons. In writer-director Philip Ridley’s first […]

Mar, 02

Phantasm II ** (1988, James Le Gros, Reggie Bannister, Angus Scrimm, Paula Irvine, A Michael Baldwin) – Classic Movie Review 3276

Writer-director Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm II is the unnecessary and less imaginative 1988 sequel to his 1979 cult horror movie Phantasm. Mike, the teenage boy from Phantasm is now a young man (and now played by […]

Jan, 17

Phantasm *** (1979, Angus Scrimm, A Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister) – Classic Movie Review 3275

The 6′ 4″ evil screen villain Angus Scrimm (aka Lawrence Rory Guy), most famous as The Tall Man in Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm (1979) and its sequels, died at the age of 89 on January 9, 2016. His […]

Jan, 17

The Body Snatcher **** (1945, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell) – Classic Movie Review 2390

Director Robert Wise’s 1945 tale of horror in old Edinburgh of 1832 is one of producer Val Lewton’s most celebrated macabre thrillers. It’s very much a work of the legendary Lewton, who co-writes the script, […]

Apr, 16

Jeux interdits [Forbidden Games] **** (1952, Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amédée) – Classic Movie Review 2356

Director René Clément’s heart-tugging war drama is the (honorary) 1953 Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film first released in the United States during 1952. Jeux interdits [Forbidden Games] focuses on the terrible fallout effects […]

Apr, 04

Family Plot **** (1976, Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane) – Classic Movie Review 464

Alfred Hitchcock’s 53rd and final movie Family Plot, made in 1976 when he was 76, is a deliciously playful, witty farewell. He called it ‘a melodrama treated with a bit of levity and sophistication. I want […]

Dec, 02

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