Derek Winnert

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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe *** (2005, Tilda Swinton, Georgie Henley, William Moseley, Skandar Keynes, Anna Popplewell, James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent) – Classic Movie Review 3806

The pleasant but mild opening chapter of the much-loved C S Lewis saga sees the four Pevensie kids going through a wardrobe to the magical kingdom of Narnia, where they learn of their destiny to free it with […]

Jun, 04

Weird Woman *** (1944, Lon Chaney Jr, Evelyn Ankers, Anne Gwynne, Ralph Morgan, Elizabeth Risdon, Lois Collier, Kay Harding, Elizabeth Russell) – Classic Movie Review 3,767

‘DOES VOODOO DEATH STRIKE FROM HER ARMS?’ The amusing and campy 1944 Inner Sanctum series mystery thriller Weird Woman stars Lon Chaney Jr as a professor who marries an exotic woman believed to be a […]

May, 24

The Man Who Knew Infinity **½ (2015, Jeremy Irons, Dev Patel, Toby Jones, Kevin McNally, Jeremy Northam, Devika Bhise, Stephen Fry) – Movie Review

The Man Who Knew Infinity tells a thought-provoking, civilised story, Jeremy Irons and Dev Patel are excellent, and the Cambridge shooting is good too. Writer-director Matt Brown’s old-fashioned 2015 biopic of Indian maths genius Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar […]

Apr, 07

The Reincarnation of Peter Proud *** (1975, Michael Sarrazin, Jennifer O’Neill, Margot Kidder) – Classic Movie Review 3326

Director J Lee Thompson’s hypnotic 1975 fantasy thriller The Reincarnation of Peter Proud stars Michael Sarrazin as a college professor called Peter Proud, who experiences flashbacks from a previous incarnation and finds that a TV […]

Feb, 05

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

The Saint’s Double Trouble *** (1940, George Sanders, Helene Reynolds, Jonathan Hale, Bela Lugosi, Donald MacBride, John F Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 3223

Director Jack Hively’s 1940 crime thriller The Saint’s Double Trouble is the fourth episode of the RKO Pictures The Saint series, and the third for George Sanders as Simon Templar, aka The Saint, all entirely […]

Jan, 03

The Conformist [Il Conformista] ***** (1970, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Dominique Sanda, Stefania Sandrelli, Pierre Clémenti) – Classic Movie Review 3182

Writer-director Bernardo Bertolucci’s provocative, impressive, unsettling 1970 psychological thriller The Conformist [Il Conformista] has style to spare. It stars an ideally cast Jean-Louis Trintignant as Marcello Clerici, a weak-willed 1930s rich Italian who embraces taking a path […]

Dec, 23

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