Derek Winnert

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Creepy ***½ (2016, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yûko Takeuchi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Masahiro Higashide, Toru Baba) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 2016 Japanese serial killer thriller film Creepy is just that – creepy! Teruyuki Kagawa plays the creep Nishino, the distinctly oddball new neighbour of the former Tokyo police detective Takakura (Hidetoshi Nishijima), who has […]

Nov, 18

Calling Paul Temple *** (1948, John Bentley, Dinah Sheridan, Abraham Sofaer, Margaretta Scott, Alan Wheatley, Jack Raine) – Classic Movie Review 4487

Director Maclean Rogers’s 1948 British mystery thriller is the welcome, much improved sequel to Send for Paul Temple (1946), based on the radio serial Paul Temple and the Canterbury Case by Frances Durbridge. John Bentley […]

Oct, 18

Paul Temple Returns [Bombay Waterfront] ** (1952, John Bentley, Patricia Dainton, Peter Gawthorne, Valentine Dyall, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 4,485

John Bentley again plays novelist-sleuth Paul Temple, who this time investigates a series of gruesome murders by a mysterious serial killer known as The Marquis, in the 1952 British thriller film Paul Temple Returns. John […]

Oct, 18

The Stepfather *** (2009, Penn Badgley, Dylan Walsh, Sela Ward, Amber Heard) – Classic Movie Review 4416

Giving an acting class in oozing smarmy charm while imploding with pent-up underlying rage, an ideally cast Dylan Walsh pitches it just right as a scary schizo serial killer who sets up home with fatherless […]

Sep, 26

Highwaymen ***½ (2004, Jim Caviezel, Rhona Mitra, Frankie Faison, Colm Feore) – Classic Movie Review 4403

Jim Caviezel stars as Rennie Cray, who hunts his wife’s crazy hit-and-run serial killer in director Robert Harmon’s slick, stylish and speedy 2004 crime action thriller that mixes Duel, Crash (1996) and Road Kill to driving effect. […]

Sep, 24

The Lovely Bones ** (2009, Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg, Saoirse Ronan, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli, Jake Abel) – Classic Movie Review 4335

‘I remember being really small, too small to see over the edge of a table. There was a snow globe, and I remember the penguin who lived inside the globe. He was all alone in […]

Sep, 10

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers ** (1989, Donald Pleasence, Danielle Harris, Ellie Cornell, Beau Starr) – Classic Movie Review 4244

Co-writer/ director Dominique Othenin-Girard’s 1989 fifth episode in the long-running slasher franchise finds the masked maniac Michael Myers back on the rampage yet again in what is easily the worst installment so far. Michael Jacobs’s […]

Aug, 26

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