Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

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 · in Reviews

Third Man Out *** (2005, Chad Allen, Sebastian Spence, Jack Wetherall, Woody Jeffreys, Sean Young) – Classic Movie Review 12,823

Chad Allen stars as a gay detective who always gets his man, in the excellent 2005 mystery film Third Man Out, the first of four films featuring Richard Stevenson’s private eye Donald Strachey. A gay […]

Mar, 10 · in Uncategorized

Ice Blues: A Donald Strachey Mystery *** (2008, Chad Allen, Sebastian Spence, Nelson Wong, Daryl Shuttleworth) – Classic Movie Review 12,822

A gay gumshoe who loves mysteries, Martinis and his man. What’s not to like? The robust and entertaining 2008 mystery film Ice Blues stars Chad Allen as gay detective Donald Strachey, caught up in deceit […]

Mar, 10

Riley ***½ (2023, Jake Holley, Colin McCalla, Riley Quinn Scott, Connor Storrie, Rib Hillis) – Classic Movie Review 12,821

Benjamin Howard’s impressive, authentic 2023 feature film debut Riley is based on his own experience as a student athlete, with an standout performance by Jake Holley as a high-school jock struggling to confront his sexuality.  Writer-director […]

Mar, 07

Condemned! *** (1929, Ronald Colman, Ann Harding, Louis Wolheim, Dudley Digges, William Elmer) – Classic Movie Review 12,820

Ronald Colman stars in the 1929 melodrama film Condemned! as a suave thief sent Devil’s Island where he falls for Madame Vidal (Ann Harding), the wife of the sadistic warden Vidal (Dudley Digges). Director Wesley […]

Mar, 04

The Mafia Kills Only in Summer [La mafia uccide solo d’estate] *** (2013, Pif, Cristiana Capotondi) – Classic Movie Review 12,819

The 2013 Italian comedy-drama film The Mafia Kills Only In Summer follows the troubled history in Sicily from the late Seventies to 1992, mocking Mafia bosses and toasting the heroes of Antimafia, while a boy […]

Mar, 02

…tick… tick… tick… *** (1970, Jim Brown, George Kennedy, Fredric March, Lynn Carlin, Don Stroud, Clifton James) – Classic Movie Review 12,818

Jim Brown stars as an African American man elected as the sheriff of a rural county in the American South, in the 1970 American crime drama thriller film …tick…tick…tick.. Director Ralph Nelson’s 1970 crime drama thriller […]

Mar, 01

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