Derek Winnert

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Halloween: Resurrection * (2002, Jamie Lee Curtis, Busta Rhymes, Tyra Banks, Brad Loree) – Classic Movie Review 4242

Director Rick Rosenthal’s 2002 eighth Halloween movie brings Jamie Lee Curtis back as Laurie Strode (if only briefly) and reunites her with her director on Halloween 2 (1981). This time Brad Loree plays the unstoppable […]

Aug, 26

Fat City **** (1972, Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell) – Classic Movie Review 4145

Director John Huston’s honest and touching 1972 story of loneliness and failure is written by Leonard Gardner and based on his 1970 novel. It provides ideal roles for Stacy Keach and Jeff Bridges, in their excellent […]

Aug, 08

Honkytonk Man *** (1982, Clint Eastwood, Kyle Eastwood, John McIntire, Verna Bloom, Alexa Kenin, Matt Clark, Barry Corbin, Jerry Hardin) – Classic Movie Review 4111

Producer-director Clint Eastwood wants to charm, amuse and depress us in his poignant, bitter-sweet 1982 personal statement movie, in which he stars as Red Stovall, a roguish, hard-living US Dust Bowl country singer during the Depression trying to make […]

Jul, 31

Not of This Earth * (1995, Michael York, Parker Stevenson, Elizabeth Barondes) – Classic Movie Review 3956

Director Terence H Winkless’s quite bad and totally uncalled for 1995 movie is the second remake of the 1957 Roger Corman movie about a vampire alien arriving on Earth. Admittedly, it is decently special effects […]

Jul, 01

The Killer Shrews ** (1959, James Best, Ingrid Goude, Ken Curtis, Gordon McLendon, Baruch Lumet) – Classic Movie Review 3915

‘Your skin will crawl with fear at their nearness’. Jay Simms’s story imagines a group of people are being terrorised on an isolated island by giant voracious shrews during a hurricane. A mad doctor is making humans half […]

Jun, 29

I Was a Teenage Werewolf *** (1957, Michael Landon, Whit Bissell, Yvonne Lime) – Classic Movie Review 3698

The cult 1957 horror movie I Was a Teenage Werewolf is infamous as the film that started the Fifties teen horror cycle. Michael Landon plays a crazy, mixed-up teenager called Tony Rivers, who goes to an even […]

May, 11

Lancelot and Guinevere [Sword of Lancelot] ** (1963, Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Brian Aherne, George Baker, Adrienne Corri, Mark Dignam) – Classic Movie Review 3651

Conscientious  co-writer/co-producer/director Cornel Wilde also leads the cast as Lancelot in a solid performance in an enjoyable but uninspired 1962 film version of the knights of the Round Table Arthurian legend. It comes ten years after Richard […]

May, 03

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