Derek Winnert

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Curtain Call [It All Came True] *** (1998, James Spader, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith, Polly Walker, Sam Shepard, Buck Henry, Frank Whaley) – Classic Movie Review 11,384

Curtain up on director Peter Yates’s slick and entertaining 1998 supernatural romantic comedy Curtain Call spotlighting a hapless publisher (James Spader) who buys a long-uninhabited Manhattan townhouse and is haunted by the bickering ghosts of […]

Jul, 12

Deadly Blessing *** (1981, Maren Jensen, Sharon Stone, Susan Buckner, Ernest Borgnine, Jeff East, Lisa Hartman, Lois Nettleton) – Classic Movie Review 11,068

‘Pray you’re not blessed.’ The 1981 horror Deadly Blessing is goremeister director Wes Craven’s outdoors chiller about three women who are seemingly terrorised by a strict religious group led by Isaiah Schmidt (Ernest Borgnine). After […]

Apr, 02

The Woman in Black * (2012, Daniel Radcliffe, Janet McTeer, Ciarán Hinds) – Classic Movie Review 10,205

The Woman in Black (2012) is an exceptionally dull and tame ghost story that has little going for it apart from Daniel Radcliffe’s strong central performance as London solicitor Arthur Kipps, grieving over the death […]

Aug, 21

Ghost Story ** (1974, Marianne Faithfull, Barbara Shelley, Murray Melvin, Larry Dann, Vivian MacKerrell) – Classic Movie Review 8490

The 1974 Ghost Story has Marianne Faithfull, horror queen Barbara Shelley’s final cinema film appearance, a killer doll, and the man who really was Withnail. Stephen Weeks’s third film (after I, Monster and Gawain and […]

May, 21

The Curse of La Llorona ** (2019, Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz, Patricia Velasquez) – Movie Review

Director Michael Chaves’s 2019 supernatural horror thriller The Curse of La Llorona is a modestly scary and entertaining spin off from The Conjuring universe. It does not have a lot of credibility – how could […]

May, 05

Return from Witch Mountain **** (1978, Bette Davis, Christopher Lee, Kim Richards, Ike Eisenmann) – Classic Movie Review 8187

Director John Hough’s 1978 Walt Disney Productions family sci-fi adventure sequel to the 1975 Escape to Witch Mountain is even better than his very good original. Christopher Lee and Bette Davis star as a wicked […]

Mar, 02

A Midsummer Night’s Dream *** (1968, Derek Godfrey, Barbara Jefford, Nicholas Selby, David Warner, Diana Rigg, Ian Richardson, Judi Dench, Ian Holm) – Classic Movie Review 7837

The Royal Shakespeare Company brings its Peter Hall-directed London stage production of the ever-popular William Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night’s Dream to the screen with practised success and delightful performances from a tip-top Sixties cast, […]

Nov, 27

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