Derek Winnert

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The Devil’s Rain ** (1975, Ernest Borgnine, Eddie Albert, Ida Lupino, Tom Skerritt, William Shatner, Keenan Wynn, John Travolta) – Classic Movie Review 11,038

‘Heaven help us all when The Devil’s Rain! The ULTIMATE in Satanic possession!’ A first-rate cast of old reliables is largely wasted in director Robert Fuest’s occasionally interesting and creepy, but often daft and kitsch […]

Mar, 23

Shadey (1985, Antony Sher, Billie Whitelaw, Patrick Macnee) – Classic Movie Review 9972

Anthony Sher stars in director Philip Saville’s grotesque and repellent 1985 British black comedy Shadey about a broke car mechanic, Oliver Shadey (Sher), who uses his mind-reading powers to pay for a sex-change operation. Fine […]

Jun, 28

The Manitou ** (1978, Tony Curtis, Ann Sothern, Burgess Meredith, Jeanette Nolan, Susan Strasberg) – Classic Movie Review 8303

Alas poor Tony Curtis, Ann Sothern, Burgess Meredith, Jeanette Nolan and Lurene Tuttle! How did these good old actors get involved in director William Girdler’s entertainingly absurd 1978 chiller hokum The Manitou about Susan Strasberg […]

Mar, 28

Hereditary **** (2018, Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, Ann Dowd, Milly Shapiro) – Movie Review

Debut writer-director Ari Aster’s arty but scary horror mystery movie Hereditary has a lot of things going for it, though brevity and clarity are not among them. Of course he doesn’t need to explain his film, […]

Jun, 02

Veronika Voss [Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss] **** (1982, Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, Cornelia Froboess) – Classic Movie Review 6189

Rainer Werner Fassbinder revels in the film noir period atmosphere he uses to tell his compelling life story of the once hugely successful actress Veronika Voss (Rosel Zech), who is now in the early Fifties […]

Nov, 04

The Black Camel *** (1931, Warner Oland, Dorothy Revier, Bela Lugosi, Sally Eilers) – Classic Movie Review 5612

The Black Camel (1931) is the second film to star Warner Oland as Charlie Chan, and the sole surviving title of the first five Chan films starring Oland. Director Hamilton McFadden’s exotic, well-plotted 1931 mystery […]

Jun, 15

The Dead Zone **** (1983, Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom, Anthony Zerbe, Colleen Dewhurst, Martin Sheen) – Classic Movie Review 5261

‘He can see the future. But can he escape it? ‘ David Cronenberg’s eerie 1983 movie version of Stephen King’s seminal 1979 sci-fi horror thriller novel boasts a performance of unusual, quiet dignity from Christopher […]

Apr, 06

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