Derek Winnert

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Cats & Dogs *** (2001, Jeff Goldblum, Elizabeth Perkins, Miriam Margolyes, Alexander Pollock, voices Tobey Maguire, Alec Baldwin, Sean Hayes, Susan Sarandon) – Classic Movie Review 4326

There are lots of hilarious moments in director Lawrence Guterman’s 2001 happy family action comedy movie experience that is basically Babe meets Mission: Impossible. Sorry cat lovers! In the war between cats and dogs, our feline […]

Sep, 09

Dr Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs [Le spie vengono dal semifreddo] * (1966, Vincent Price, Fabian Forte, Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia) – Classic Movie Review 4314

‘MEET THE MOST TITILATING TIME BOMBS EVER! ‘ Vincent Price went to Italy to re-create his role as the mad scientist Dr Goldfoot for director Mario Bava’s unwanted and stupid 1966 sequel to the previous […]

Sep, 08

Stalker ****½ (1979, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Alisa Freyndlikh) – Classic Movie Review 4210

Director-cinematographer Andrei Tarkovsky’s brilliantly cerebral, uniquely disturbing 1979 Russian film tells a tantalisingly oblique and mystifying story about about a Stalker (Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy) who guides two intellectuals through the so-called Zone, a forbidden area of […]

Aug, 21

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

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams *** (2002, Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Daryl Sabara, Alexa Vega, Steve Buscemi, Ricardo Montalban, Cheech Marin, Danny Trejo, Mike Judge, Bill Paxton) – Classic Movie Review 4205

Young Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara return as plucky sibling spies Carmen and Juni Cortez, in writer-director Robert Rodriguez’s brilliantly fast-paced 2002 adventure that is very nearly as dazzling as his 2001 original Spy Kids. This time Carmen […]

Aug, 20

Demon Seed *** (1977, Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerrit Graham, Berry Kroeger, Lisa Lu, Larry J Blake, John O’Leary) – Classic Movie Review 4204

Julie Christie enjoyed a rare commercial success in this rather nasty 1977 sci-fi thriller as a scientist’s wife held hostage by a giant mechanised brain. This weird but effective movie has some very telling shock moments […]

Aug, 19

The Omega Man **** (1971, Charlton Heston, Rosalind Cash, Anthony Zerbe) – Classic Movie Review 4055

Charlton Heston finds a useful role in this atmospheric and pretty creepy 1971 Twilight Zone-type zombie sci-fi thriller, as Army doctor Robert Neville, one of the last men alive after a germ war between Russia […]

Jul, 19

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