Derek Winnert

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Raising Cain ** (1992, John Lithgow, Lolita Davidovich, Steven Bauer, Frances Sternhagen, Gregg Henry) – Classic Movie Review 4,430

Brian De Palma’s self-mocking 1992 psychological horror suspense thriller film Raising Cain is stylistically and thematically extravagant, and gleefully self-indulgent. John Lithgow stars as psychopathic, multiple-personality child psychologist Carter Nix. Writer-director Brian De Palma’s self-mocking […]

Sep, 28

The 9th Life of Louis Drax ***½ (2016, Jamie Dornan, Aiden Longworth, Sarah Gadon, Molly Parker, Aaron Paul, Barbara Hershey, Oliver Platt) – Movie Review

Jamie Dornan stars as Dr Allan Pascal, who is drawn into the mystery of his coma patient, accident-prone nine-year-old Louis Drax (Aiden Longworth), who has suffered a lifetime of curious mishaps culminating in his near-fatal fall […]

Sep, 07

A Child Is Waiting **** (1963, Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Bruce Ritchey, Gena Rowlands, Steven Hill, Paul Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 4246

Burt Lancaster gives a commanding performance as Dr Matthew Clark, the psychiatrist in charge of an institution for mentally handicapped children in this sincere, moving and emotionally wrenching 1963 movie version of acclaimed American writer Abby Mann’s acclaimed […]

Aug, 27

Solaris [Solyaris] ***½ (1972, Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet) – Classic Movie Review 4209

Esteemed Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi epic is intelligent, challenging and visually wonderful, thanks to Mikhail Romadin’s brilliant art direction, but it also seems impenetrable, pretentious and vastly overlong at 167 minutes. The screenplay […]

Aug, 20

The Boy with Green Hair **** (1948, Dean Stockwell, Pat O’Brien, Robert Ryan, Barbara Hale, Samuel S Hinds, Walter Catlett, Regis Toomey, Russ Tamblyn) – Classic Movie Review 4025

Director Joseph Losey’s heartwarming and intelligent 1948 parable story about being different and an outcast showcases a lovely winning performance from 12-year-old little Dean Stockwell as war orphan Peter Frye. Peter is a typical American kid who is […]

Jul, 15

Drag Me to Hell *** (2009, Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver, Dileep Rao, David Paymer, Chelcie Ross, Molly Cheek, Adriana Barraza) – Classic Movie Review 3352

Despite lots of sick laughs and soppy scares, and a likeable air of daft creepiness, this is still no more than a thin and silly horror flick. But, still, it’s entertaining. Its main saving grace […]

Feb, 13

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

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