Derek Winnert

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The Human Centipede (First Sequence) **** (2009, Dieter Laser, Ashley C Williams, Ashlynn Yennie) – Classic Movie Review 6103

Brace yourselves, folks, for this truly, madly, deeply shocking 2009 Dutch horror thriller, made with great flair by director Tom Six, who keeps the suspense, tension and terror on the boil throughout. It is horrible, […]

Oct, 17

Too Many Crooks **** (1959, Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Brenda De Banzie, Bernard Bresslaw, Sidney James, Joe Melia, Vera Day) – Classic Movie Review 6002

Director Mario Zampi’s nimble and nifty 1959 British crime comedy stars the irreplaceable comedy gods Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Bernard Bresslaw and Sidney James, who of course greatly enliven this daft but amusing satire on racketeer […]

Aug, 30

Sanders of the River *** (1935, Paul Robeson, Leslie Banks, Nina Mae McKinney) – Classic Movie Review 5823

Leslie Banks stars as Edgar Wallace’s British colonial District Commissioner in Nigeria R G Sanders, who captures bad guys Lieutenant Tibbets (Robert Cochran) and J Ferguson (Martin Walker, who have sold guns and gin to the natives. […]

Jul, 29

Snatched * (2017, Amy Schumer, Goldie Hawn, Ike Barinholtz, Wanda Sykes, Joan Cusack) – Movie Review

Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn try their best, they really do, as Emily Middleton and her ultra-cautious mother Linda who set off on an exotic vacation to paradise together when Em is dumped by her boyfriend and […]

May, 17

Funny Games *** (2007, Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet, Devon Gearhart) – Classic Movie Review 5220

Michael Pitt plays another of his twisted and troubled characters as Paul in director Michael Haneke’s alienating shot-by-shot English-language remake of his Austrian original Funny Games (1997). Pitt and Brady Corbet play a couple of young, articulate, white-gloved psychos, […]

Mar, 30

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution *** (1976, Nicol Williamson, Robert Duvall, Alan Arkin, Laurence Olivier) – Classic Movie Review 4,917

Nicol Williamson is oddly cast as Sherlock Holmes, who is tricked by his brother Mycroft (Charles Gray) into travelling to Vienna to be treated by Sigmund Freud (Alan Arkin) to recover from his cocaine addiction. Producer-director Herbert Ross’s 1976 […]

Jan, 22

The Grissom Gang **** (1971, Kim Darby, Scott Wilson, Tony Musante, Irene Dailey, Robert Lansing, Connie Stevens, Ralph Waite, Wesley Addy) – Classic Movie Review 4.786

Kim Darby stars in The Grissom Gang as a 1930s heiress who is kidnapped and comes under the spell of one of her captors (Scott Wilson). Robert Aldrich’s 1971 film of James Hadley Chase’s 1939 […]

Dec, 12

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