Derek Winnert

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Vampyr [Castle of Doom] ***** (1932, Julian West, Henriette Gérard, Sybille Schmitz, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel) – Classic Movie Review 3513

Danish co-writer/ producer/ director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s creepy and compelling first sound film from 1932 tells the haunting tale of a callow, supernatural-obsessed drifter called Allan Gray (Julian West), who arrives by night at a lonely secluded […]

Apr, 02

Dr Giggles **½ (1992, Larry Drake, Holly Marie Combs, Cliff De Young) – Classic Movie Review 3482

Co-writer/director Manny Coto’s deeply unsettling 1992 horror movie stars Larry Drake as the psychopathic Dr Evan Rendell, aka Dr Giggles, the son of a mass-murdering doctor, who escapes from his mental institution and comes to the […]

Mar, 20

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner **** (1967, Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton) – Classic Movie Review 3421

Producer-director Stanley Kramer’s 1967 old-fashioned drawing room comedy drama is impeccably liberal minded and well meaning but it stirred up controversy by standing accused of patronising African Americans. Good hearted as it is, it was […]

Feb, 27

Whirlpool **** (1949, Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, José Ferrer, Charles Bickford, Barbara O’Neil, Eduard Franz) – Classic Movie Review 3391

Otto Preminger is reunited with his Laura (1944) star Gene Tierney for the thoroughly enjoyable 1949 film noir murder mystery Whirlpool.  Producer-director Otto Preminger is reunited with his Laura (1944) star Gene Tierney for the […]

Feb, 20

The Plague of the Zombies *** (1966, André Morell, Jacqueline Pearce, John Carson, Diane Clare, Brook Williams) – Classic Movie Review 3303

André Morell stars as Sir James Forbes, the old professor who sets about to investigate The Plague of the Zombies (1966), and Jacqueline Pearce (aka Servalan) plays Alice Thompson, who turns out to be an […]

Jan, 30

A Passage to India **** (1984, Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, Alec Guinness, James Fox, Nigel Havers, Richard Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 3178

After a 14-year gap, writer-director David Lean made a spectacular comeback in 1984 with his accomplished and satisfying adaptation of the E M Forster classic novel about the eye-opening first visit to India of a […]

Dec, 21

The Constant Gardener **** (2005, Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Hubert Koundé, Danny Huston, Bill Nighy) – Classic Movie Review 3169

Ralph Fiennes stars as widower Justin Quayle, who is determined to uncover a potentially explosive secret involving the murder of his activist wife Tessa (Rachel Weisz), in director Fernando Meirelles’s excellent 2005 movie of the novel by John […]

Dec, 18

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