Derek Winnert

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Death Becomes Her *** (1992, Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Bruce Willis, Isabella Rossellini, Ian Ogilvy) – Classic Movie Review 7995

The 1992 Death Becomes Her is an intriguing attempt at a black-comedy fantasy farce by Robert Zemeckis, the biggest money-spinning director of all time, who gives Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and Bruce Willis the opportunity […]

Jan, 09

The Asphyx *** (1972, Robert Stephens, Robert Powell, Jane Lapotaire) – Classic Movie Review 6148

Director Peter Newbrook’s macabre 1973 British horror movie stars Robert Stephens as Sir Hugo Cunningham, an obsessed brilliant Victorian scientist who traps the spirit of death (the Greek-named Asphyx of the title), which supposedly enters bodies […]

Oct, 27

Blade of the Immortal [Mugen no jûnin] *** (2017, Takuya Kimura, Hana Sugisaki, Sôta Fukushi) – Movie Review 

The hundredth film by master director Takashi Miike is Blade of the Immortal [Mugen no jûnin], which stars Takuya Kimura as skilled samurai Manji, cursed by some ancient crone with immortality after a legendary battle in which he more […]

Oct, 25

Psychomania [The Death Wheelers] * (1973, George Sanders, Nicky Henson, Beryl Reid, Robert Hardy, Roy Holder, Patrick Holt) – Classic Movie Review 5865

Director Don Sharp’s ridiculous, exotically awful 1973 British horror movie curiosity Psychomania [The Death Wheelers] stars Nicky Henson as motorbike gang leader Tom Latham, who discovers the secret of rising from the dead. So he […]

Aug, 06

Tuck Everlasting ***½ (2002, Alexis Bledel, Jonathan Jackson, Sissy Spacek, William Hurt, Scott Bairstow, Ben Kingsley, Amy Irving, Victor Garber) – Classic Movie Review 4731

In the woods, young Winnie Foster (Alexis Bledel) meets a young man, Jesse Tuck (Jonathan Jackson), who is part of a family of immortals, who take her in for fear that she might reveal their […]

Dec, 02

She ***½ (1965, Ursula Andress, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, John Richardson, Bernard Cribbins, André Morell) – Classic Movie Review 4454

Ursula Andress stars as She, the beautiful woman cursed with eternal life until she falls in love, in this Hammer Films studio’s re-filming of H Rider Haggard’s fantasy adventure epic, first shot as a talkie […]

Oct, 03

She **** (1935, Randolph Scott, Nigel Bruce, Helen Gahagan, Helen Mack, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Samuel S Hinds) – Classic Movie Review 4453

The little known Helen Gahagan makes a majestic ‘She Who Must Be Obeyed’ – the beautiful woman who bathed in flame and lived 500 years  – in directors Irving Pichel and Lansing C Holden’s still-impressive 1935 […]

Oct, 03

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