Derek Winnert

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Secret in Their Eyes **½ (2015, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts) – Movie Review

American writer-director Billy Ray adapts Juan José Campanella’s 2010 Argentinian Oscar-winner Best Foreign Language Film El secreto de sus ojos [The Secret in Their Eyes] for an American remake. The 2015 thriller Secret in Their […]

Feb, 24

Lonesome Cowboys *** (1968, Viva, Tom Hompertz, Louis Waldon, Eric Emerson, Joe D’Allesandro) – Classic Movie Review 3138

Andy Warhol, Paul Morrisey and their Factory gay lonesome cowboys ride again in heated trashy flesh from the good old bad old days of 1968. Now an amiable-seeming period curio, it hasn’t worn well, but […]

Dec, 08

The General’s Daughter *** (1999, John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, Timothy Hutton, James Woods) – Classic Movie Review 2965

John Travolta and Madeleine Stowe star as warrant officer CID detectives who are brought in to a Florida army base to investigate after retiring base commander Lieutenant General ‘Fighting Joe’ Campbell (James Cromwell)’s military daughter […]

Oct, 07

Conquest [Marie Walewska] **** (1937, Greta Garbo, Charles Boyer, Reginald Owen, Alan Marshal, Henry Stephenson, Dame May Whitty) – Classic Movie Review 2921

Director Clarence Brown’s plush 1937 historical romantic drama stars Greta Garbo in a weepie love story about Countess Marie Walewska, the Polish mistress of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (Charles Boyer). She becomes Napoleon’s mistress at the urging of […]

Sep, 21

The Last House on the Left *** (1972, Lucy Grantham, Sandra Cassel, David Hess, Marc Sheffier, Jeramie Rain, Fred Lincoln, Gaylord St James, Cynthia Carr) – Classic Movie Review 2870

‘To avoid fainting, keep repeating “It’s only a movie…It’s only a movie…only a movie…”‘ Writer-editor-director Wes Craven’s 1972 revenge horror thriller is his debut feature film, a difficult and controversial shocker of a movie. It […]

Aug, 31

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed *** (1969, Peter Cushing, Veronica Carlson, Simon Ward, Freddie Jones, George Pravda, Maxine Audley, Thorley Walters) – Classic Movie Review 2772

Director Terence Fisher’s 1969 Hammer Films horror movie sequel Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed brings back Peter Cushing as the bad and depraved Baron Frankenstein, who is once again working with illegal medical experiments. Baron Frankenstein arrives in […]

Aug, 02

The Salvation **** (2014, Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Douglas Henshall, Jonathan Pryce) – Movie Review

This tremendous revenge Western from co-writer/director Kristian Levring has everything you’d expect, or hope for, except American filming! But it looks just great shot in South Africa, with a little help from CGI. Mads Mikkelsen suffers […]

Apr, 15

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