Derek Winnert

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As Cool as I Am *** (2013, Sarah Bolger, Thomas Mann, James Marsden, Claire Danes, Peter Fonda, Jon Tenney, Jeremy Sisto ) – Classic Movie Review 4770

Director Max Mayer’s appealing 2013 bitter-sweet comedy drama stars Sarah Bolger as smart 16-year-old tomboy Lucy Diamond (as in the Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds) who comes of age in a small town with her […]

Dec, 07

Caged **** (1950, Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Ellen Corby, Hope Emerson, Jane Darwell, Betty Garde, Jan Sterling, Lee Patrick) – Classic Movie Review 4699

Director John Cromwell’s exciting 1950 film noir crime drama Caged stars Oscar nominated Eleanor Parker, who is outstanding as Marie Allen, a naïve 19-year-old teenager jailed for her innocent share in her husband’s gas-station heist […]

Nov, 25

When a Stranger Calls ** (2006, Camilla Belle, Tommy Flanagan, Katie Cassidy, Tessa Thompson, Brian Geraghty, Clark Gregg, Derek de Lint) – Classic Movie Review 4524

Though not outstanding, Camilla Belle makes a pretty, feisty heroine as Jill Johnson, a high-school student baby-sitter in peril in a chic isolated house when a mad homicidal stranger repeatedly calls and finally threatens the […]

Oct, 24

The Girl Next Door *** (2004, Emile Hirsch, Elisha Cuthbert, Timothy Olyphant, James Remar, Chris Marquette, Paul Dano, Timothy Bottoms) – Classic Movie Review 4468

Director Luke Greenfield’s 2004 comedy stars Emile Hirsch as Matthew Kidman, an American teen who gets lucky when an ex-porn star (24’s Elisha Cuthbert) moves in next door. Timothy Olyphant plays her pushy producer who […]

Oct, 09

Motorcycle Gang *½ (1957, Anne Neyland, Steven Terrell, John Ashley, Carl Switzer, Raymond Hatton, Wayne Taylor, Russ Bender) – Classic Movie Review 4448

Anne Neyland, Steven Terrell and John Ashley star in director Edward L Cahn’s campy, amusingly dated same year remake of Dragstrip Girl (1957). Lou Rusoff cannibalises his own original story for the new screenplay. In the semi-revised storyline, a troublemaker returns to town […]

Oct, 02

The Giant Gila Monster ** (1959, Don Sullivan, Lisa Simone, Shug Fisher, Ken Knox, Fred Graham) – Classic Movie Review 4411

Director Ray Kellogg’s low-budget 1959 sci-fi monster movie stars Don Sullivan, Lisa Simone,  Shug Fisher (as the comedy relief) and KLIF disc jockey Ken Knox. Of course it is pretty bad, but it is a fun Fifties B-movie cult classic. Teens are […]

Sep, 26

The War Zone *** (1998, Freddie Cunliffe, Ray Winstone, Lara Belmont, Tilda Swinton, Colin Farrell, Kate Ashfield, Aisling O’Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 4382

An alienated teenage boy (Freddie Cunliffe) begins to suspect his father (Ray Winstone) is abusing his older sister (Lara Belmont) in director Tim Roth’s well-meaning, painstaking though alienating 1998 film of a controversial novel by […]

Sep, 19

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