Derek Winnert

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Mum & Dad **½ (2008, Perry Benson, Dido Miles, Olga Fedori, Ainsley Howard) – Classic Movie Review 4624

Writer-director Steven Sheil’s 2008 low-budget British horror thriller film is well made and resourceful but deeply unpleasant. It starts with young Polish Heathrow Airport office cleaner Lena (Olga Fedori) accompanying an apparently friendly co-worker called […]

Nov, 10

The Borrowers ***½ (1997, John Goodman, Jim Broadbent, Celia Imrie, Mark Williams, Hugh Laurie) – Classic Movie Review 4219

Director Peter Hewitt’s charming and delightful 1997 movie version of Mary Norton’s famed children’s classic is that rarest of films that exerts its appeal on both children and adults alike. A sleek and plush picture […]

Aug, 23

Demon Seed *** (1977, Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerrit Graham, Berry Kroeger, Lisa Lu, Larry J Blake, John O’Leary) – Classic Movie Review 4204

Julie Christie enjoyed a rare commercial success in this rather nasty 1977 sci-fi thriller as a scientist’s wife held hostage by a giant mechanised brain. This weird but effective movie has some very telling shock moments […]

Aug, 19

Endless Night ** (1972, Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Britt Ekland, George Sanders, Per Oscarsson, Lois Maxwell, Peter Bowles) – Classic Movie Review 4033

Writer-director Sidney Gilliat re-pairs the hit young star-player team from The Family Way (1966) and Twisted Nerve (1968), Hayley Mills and Hywel Bennett, for another creepy thriller, a heavily reworked 1972 film version of a well-regarded Agatha Christie […]

Jul, 16

Paranormal Activity 2 **** (2010, Brian Boland, Sprague Brayden, Molly Ephraim) – Classic Movie Review 3830

Daniel Rey (played by Brian Boland), his wife Kristi (Sprague Brayden) and their daughter Ali (Molly Ephraim) move to Carlsbad, California, with their toddler son and their dog. Soon there is break-in but nothing has […]

Jun, 09

The Money Pit **** (1986, Shelley Long, Tom Hanks, Alexander Godunov, Maureen Stapleton, Joe Mantegna, Philip Bosco, Josh Mostel) – Classic Movie Review 3825

Those highly amusing Eighties comedy stars Shelley Long and Tom Hanks are well paired and gainfully employed making us laugh in director Richard Benjamin’s very bright, cute, funny and jolly 1986 comedy. They play newly […]

Jun, 08

Ten Little Indians *** (1965, Wilfrid Hyde White, Dennis Price, Stanley Holloway, Leo Genn, Shirley Eaton, Hugh O’Brian, Daliah Lavi, Fabian Forte) – Classic Movie Review 3261

Director George Pollock’s acceptable British 1965 thriller is the second of four movie versions of Agatha Christie’s famous whodunit detective novel about 10 people invited by a mysterious stranger to a remote spot (this time […]

Jan, 12

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