Derek Winnert

Reviews

The Whole Truth *** (1958, Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Donna Reed, Gianna Maria Canale, Hy Hazell, Peter Dyneley, Jimmy Thompson) – Classic Movie Review 12,841

‘The Year’s Niftiest, Shiftiest Whodunit! FRENZIED SUSPENSE! – an adventure in fear when a film producer faces real murder!’ Director John Guillermin’s enjoyable 1958 British puzzle thriller film The Whole Truth is based on a […]

Apr, 04

The Year I Lost My Mind [Jahr des Tigers] *** (2017, Alexander Tsypilev, Julien Lickert, Patrick G Boll) – Classic Movie Review 12,840

Tor Iben’s creepy 2017 German suspense thriller The Year I Lost My Mind [Jahr des Tigers] focuses on a lonely young Berlin gay man who becomes dangerously obsessed with a stranger whose house he broke […]

Apr, 03

The Passenger *** (2014, Niklas Peters, Lynn Femme, Urs Stämpfli) – Classic Movie Review 12,839

Sexual and moral boundaries are dangerously crossed when a handsome stranger infiltrates the lives of two young Berlin arty folk, in writer/ director Tor Iben’s enjoyably provocative, sexually teasing 2014 German thriller film The Passenger. […]

Apr, 03

Orpheus’ Song *** (2019, Sascha Weingarten, Julien Lickert, Henry Morales, Kristina Kostiv) – Classic Movie Review 12,838

Writer-director Tor Iben goes by the name of Feelbadmovies, but the cute 2019 German romantic adventure drama film Orpheus’ Song is a feel-good movie. Hooray! It’s a nice and quirky tale of two gym buddies. […]

Apr, 02

The Trace of Your Lips [La huella de unos labios] *** (2023, Hugo Catalán, Mauricio Rico) – Classic Movie Review 12,837

‘How intensely does loneliness feed desire? And how much brighter does this fire burn when loneliness becomes isolation?’ Mmm, good questions. Director Julián Hernández’s eerie, sexually charged 2023 Mexican drama film The Trace of Your […]

Apr, 02

Bigger Than Life *** (1956, James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau) – Classic Movie Review 12,836

Barbara Rush stars as James Mason’s wife in the acclaimed 1956 drama film Bigger Than Life, in which a school teacher’s misuse of an experimental drug results in his threatening harm to his family.  Director […]

Apr, 01

Shock to the System *** (2006, Chad Allen, Sebastian Spence, Michael Woods) – Classic Movie Review 12,824

The 2006 mystery film Shock to the System is the very welcome second film adaptation of a Richard Stevenson novel starring Chad Allen as gay private detective Donald Strachey, who tries to solve the murder […]

Mar, 11

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