Derek Winnert

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Tightrope **** (1984, Clint Eastwood, Geneviève Bujold, Dan Hedaya) – Classic Movie Review 3815

Writer-director Richard Tuggle’s 1984 thriller is admittedly nasty and violent, but it also exciting, tense and suspenseful – and an underestimated, perhaps often misunderstood movie. It is rated R for strong sexuality, nudity, terror, violence and […]

Jun, 06

The Dead Pool ** (1988, Clint Eastwood, Patricia Clarkson, Liam Neeson) – Classic Movie Review 3813

Clint Eastwood said: ‘It’s fun, once in a while, to have a character you can go back to. It’s like revisiting an old friend you haven’t seen for a long time. You figure I’ll go […]

Jun, 06

The Greasy Strangler ** (2016, Michael St Michaels, Sky Elobar, Elizabeth De Razzo) – Movie Review

Michael St Michaels stars as Big Ronnie, a total old slob who lives with his equally dysfunctional middle-aged son, Big Brayden (Sky Elobar). Their sad and pathetic existence is punctuated with Brayden cooking ever more greasy food […]

Jun, 03

Beyond Bedlam * (1994, Craig Fairbrass, Elizabeth Hurley, Keith Allen) – Classic Movie Review 3792

‘Psychological Terror Beyond Your Wildest Nightmares.’ Co-writer/director Vadim Jean’s 1994 British psychological murder thriller is an unappealing, far-fetched and slackly handled movie. In the story, based on the novel Bedlam by John Brosnan (writing as Harry Adam […]

May, 30

Let Me In **** (2010, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloë Grace Moretz, Elias Koteas, Richard Jenkins, Dylan Minnette) – Classic Movie Review 3783

Sparks fly when the boy from The Road (2009) meets the girl from Kick-Ass (2010). Kodi Smit-McPhee plays Owen, a lonely, dorky 12-year-old boy with a telescope, prying on the neighbours. Chloë Grace Moretz plays Abby, apparently […]

May, 29

The Strangler *** (1963, Victor Buono, David McLean, Ellen Corby, Diane Sayer, Jeanne Bates) – Classic Movie Review 3760

Victor Buono, fresh from his success in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), is creepily effective as lab technician Leo Kroll, a mountainous, mother-mad maniac who bumps off nurses in director Burt Topper’s cheaply made, but gripping […]

May, 28

She-Wolf of London [The Curse of the Allenbys] * (1946, Don Porter, June Lockhart, Sara Haden) – Classic Movie Review 3748

Director Jean Yarbrough’s stale 1946 horror thriller stars June Lockhart as young heiress Phyllis Allenby, whose aunt Martha Winthrop (Sara Haden) convinces her that she has come under the influence of a family curse and is […]

May, 23

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