Derek Winnert

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This Island Earth **** (1955, Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason) – Classic Movie Review 2,444

Director Joseph Newman’s 1955 movie This Island Earth is a memorable, huge fun Fifties sci-fi thriller with a sprightly yarn about benevolent aliens kidnapping earthling scientists to save their planet. The film is fondly remembered […]

May, 02

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

Carry On Again Doctor *** (1969, Kenneth Williams, Sidney James, Jim Dale, Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques, Barbara Windsor, Charles Hawtrey) – Classic Movie Review 2374

Director Gerald Thomas assembles a vintage Carry On cast of the familiar funny faces in 1969 for this more or less consistently amusing if slightly less funny attempt to repeat the success of the big hit […]

Apr, 11

The Uninvited ****½ (1944, Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Gail Russell, Donald Crisp) – Classic Movie Review 2279

Director Lewis Allen’s 1944 classic supernatural mystery romance is a superlatively spooky ghost story, treated admirably seriously, about a brother and sister (Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey) having a holiday on Cornwall, where they fall in love with, […]

Mar, 18

The Dark Mirror **** (1946, Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 2273

Robert Siodmak directs one of Hollywood’s better Forties psychological film noir thrillers in 1946. It finds Olivia de Havilland on rousing form, enjoying herself enormously in two roles as identical twins Terry and Ruth Collins, one […]

Mar, 16

Playing God *** (1997, David Duchovny, Timothy Hutton, Angelina Jolie, Peter Stormare) – Classic Movie Review 2134

The truth is out here – somewhere – in director Andy Wilson’s spicy 1997 thriller. David Duchovny enjoys a modicum of success in this brave change-of-pace away from the X-Files, playing Dr Eugene Sands a […]

Jan, 30

The Blob *** (1958, Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe) – Classic Movie Review 2103

Director Irvin S Yeaworth Jnr’s 1958 B-movie horror flick stars Steve McQueen in his first leading role, billed as Steven McQueen. In this irresistible low-budget schlock, a gelatinous alien goo arrives on Earth via a meteorite and begins […]

Jan, 23

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