Derek Winnert

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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

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! [Átame!] **** (1989, Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Loles León, Francisco Rabal, Julieta Serrano, Rossy de Palma, Francisca Caballero) – Classic Movie Review 3576

Writer-director Pedro Almodóvar’s exuberant, hard-hitting 1989 Spanish art-movie romantic thriller stars Antonio Banderas as Ricky, a young stud who is freed from a psychiatric ward of a mental hospital and tries unorthodox methods to woo a […]

Apr, 16

The Cry of the Owl *** (2009, Paddy Considine, Julia Stiles, Karl Pruner) – Classic Movie Review 3550

Director Jamie Thraves also writes the screenplay of this intriguing 2009 thriller, adapting the novel by Patricia Highsmith that had already provided a most satisfying movie version in 1987 from masterly Claude Chabrol, The Cry of the […]

Apr, 10

Mojave ***½ (2015, Garrett Hedlund, Oscar Isaac, Mark Wahlberg) – Movie Review

‘This started in the desert and it’s gonna end there. You understand? This has to play out.’ Garrett Hedlund stars in this intriguing 2015 film noir-style psycho thriller oddity as depressed film-maker Thomas, who goes into […]

Mar, 19

Midnight Lace *** (1960, Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy, Roddy McDowall, Herbert Marshall, Natasha Parry, John Williams, Anthony Dawson, Hermione Baddeley) – Classic Movie Review 3,126

The polished 1960 Hitchcock-style thriller film Midnight Lace stars Doris Day, exquisitely gowned by Irene, who was Oscar nominated for Best Color Costume Design. Day plays a terrified married American heiress, threatened by an anonymous […]

Dec, 03

Swimfan **½ (2002, Jesse Bradford, Erika Christensen, Shiri Appleby) – Classic Movie Review 2129

You can’t help being attracted to director John Poulson’s 2002 crazy stalker thriller as a glossy though fatally flawed teen swimmer version of Fatal Attraction or Play Misty for Me. It stars Jesse Bradford as […]

Jan, 29

Play Misty for Me **** (1971, Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills) – Classic Movie Review 2078

The 1971 psychological thriller Play Misty for Me is a carefully crafted, tense and exciting chiller full of creepy sequences. It represents an auspicious directorial début by the ambitious, 41-year-old Clint Eastwood, effortlessly making the transition […]

Jan, 16

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