Derek Winnert

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Innocent Blood ** (1992, Anne Parillaud, Anthony LaPaglia, Robert Loggia) – Classic Movie Review 6029

Director John Landis revisits with considerably less effect the territory he covered so successfully with his 1981 classic An American Werewolf in London for this disappointing if passable 1992 vampire horror thriller. The mix of fantasy, […]

Sep, 15

Nikita [La Femme Nikita] **** (1990, Anne Parillaud, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Tchéky Karyo, Jeanne Moreau, Jean Reno) – Classic Movie Review 6,028

Anne Parillaud stars as the 20-year-old convicted dropout punkette Nikita, who thinks nothing of killing to get drugs and becomes a government assassin, in Luc Besson’s dark and trendy 1990 French neo noir thriller La […]

Sep, 15

Westworld **** (1973, Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin) – Classic Movie Review 5994

Writer-director Michael Crichton’s 1973 sci-fi action thriller is a great entertainment and a bona fide Seventies classic, and now also a cult favourite. The idea of theme parks running out of control may be a […]

Aug, 29

Robot Monster * (1953, George Nader, Gregory Moffett, Claudia Barrett, Selena Royle, John Mylong) – Classic Movie Review 5902

‘MOON MONSTERS LAUNCH ATTACK AGAINST EARTH! How can science meet the menace of astral assassins? New Science Fiction Thrills! Adventures Into The Future in New TRU-3 Dimension’. ‘Incredible! Unbelievable! Told The Untamed Way!’ Producer-director Phil […]

Aug, 13

Glitter * (2001, Mariah Carey, Max Beesley, Eric Benét) – Classic Movie Review 5886

Let us begin by quoting dialogue from a 2001 episode of TV’s Will and Grace. ‘How bad is it?’ ‘Mariah Carey in Glitter bad!’ Director Vondie Curtis-Hall’s 2001 music drama is a very bad film, but […]

Aug, 09

Love Streams **** (1984, Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Diahnne Abbott, Seymour Cassel) – Classic Movie Review 5753

John Cassavetes’s 1984 film Love Streams is his final solo feature and tells the agonising story of a troubled middle-aged brother (Cassavetes) and sister (Gena Rowlands), abandoned by their loved ones. Sarah Lawson (played by […]

Jul, 13

The Hand (1981, Michael Caine, Andrea Marcovicci, Viveca Lindfors, Rosemary Murphy) – Classic Movie Review 5547

This silly and really quite dreadful horror thriller flick from writer-director Oliver Stone is good for a laugh but wastes Michael Caine as cartoonist Jon Lansdale, a comic book artist who loses his drawing hand in […]

Jun, 04

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