Derek Winnert

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre *** (2003, Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Erica Leerhsen, Mike Vogel, Eric Balfour, Andrew Bryniarski, R Lee Ermey) – Classic Movie Review 5989

Five terrified teens are stuck in a 1973 Texas town and fighting for their lives against a crazy chainsaw-wielding monster, the chilling masked Leatherface (Andrew Bryniarski), and his cannibal family. Director Marcus Nispel’s hit 2003 […]

Aug, 29

Head Over Heels [Chilly Scenes of Winter] **** (1979, John Heard, Mary Beth Hurt, Peter Riegert, Gloria Grahame, Kenneth McMillan, Nora Heflin, Griffin Dunne) – Classic Movie Review 5801

Writer-director Joan Micklin Silver’s bitter-sweet 1979 romantic comedy movie is a little gem of a winner about John Heard’s character Charles’s passion for his old girlfriend Laura (Mary Beth Hurt). Simple and offbeat, told in […]

Jul, 23

Dick Tracy vs Cueball **½ (1946, Morgan Conway, Anne Jeffreys, Dick Wessel, Lyle Latell, Rita Corday, Ian Keith) – Classic Movie Review 5592

Morgan Conway returns as Tracy in RKO’s enjoyable low-budget crime thriller film Dick Tracy vs Cueball, with Dick Wessel as the murderous diamond thief villain Cueball. Following his debut in Dick Tracy (1945), Morgan Conway […]

Jun, 12

Pittsburgh *** (1942, Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, John Wayne) – Classic Movie Review 5,521

The 1942 drama film Pittsburgh does the good deed of reuniting the star trio of the same year’s The Spoilers – Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott and John Wayne. Director Lewis Seiler’s 1942 black and white […]

May, 29

The Slender Thread **** (1965, Sidney Poitier, Anne Bancroft, Telly Savalas, Steven Hill, Edward Asner, Dabney Coleman, Paul Newlan) – Classic Movie Review 5037

Director Sydney Pollack’s auspicious 1965 feature film début The Slender Thread stars Sidney Poitier as Alan Newell, a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis centre as a telephone social worker. The film was nominated […]

Feb, 20

The Rain People **** (1969, James Caan, Shirley Knight, Robert Duvall) – Classic Movie Review 4707

Writer-director Francis Ford Coppola’s intriguing early career film from 1969 demands attention and respect, with Shirley Knight starring as Natalie Ravenna, a New York housewife who panics when she discovers that she is pregnant and […]

Nov, 27

When a Stranger Calls *** (1979, Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Tony Beckley, Colleen Dewhurst, Rachel Roberts, Ron O’Neal, Rutanya Alda) – Classic Movie Review 4525

Co-writer/ director Fred Walton’s 1979 cult horror thriller follows in the wake of the similar but better Halloween (1978), but is held together by the powerful presence of excellent Charles Durning as John Clifford, the cop obsessively […]

Oct, 24

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