Derek Winnert

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We Were Strangers *** (1949, Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendáriz, Ramon Novarro, Gilbert Roland) – Classic Movie Review 9961

Director John Huston’s 1949 We Were Strangers stars John Garfield as Tony Fenner, who helps a 1930s Cuba plot to overthrow the tyrannical and despotic government of President Machado by blowing up a cemetery at […]

Jun, 26

The Dead Don’t Die *** (2019, Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tom Waits, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover) – Movie Review

Writer-director Jim Jarmusch’s cool zombie comedy The Dead Don’t Die (2019) is consistently amusing throughout, with a whole lot of laughs and chortles. It is the knowing comedy of irrelevance, sarcasm, throwaway lines, absurdities and […]

Jul, 14

Pet Sematary *** (1989, Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby, Fred Gwynne) – Classic Movie Review 7110

Director Mary Lambert’s 1989 fantasy horror thriller Pet Sematary turns Stephen King’s disturbing, far-fetched tale into a chillingly gory, upsetting horror movie with appealing performances (particularly by stars Dale Midkiff and Fred Gwynne), an eerie mood, […]

Jun, 02

The Fugitive Kind *** (1960, Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward, Anna Magnani) – Classic Movie Review 6948

‘With a guitar and a snakeskin jacket he drifted out of the rain… into the lives of these two women…’ Tennessee Williams’s second-level 1957 tragic play Orpheus Descending gets the extravagant full-monty emoting it needs […]

Apr, 19

Night of the Ghouls * (1959, Kenne Duncan, Duke Moore, Tor Johnson, Paul Marco, Criswell) – Classic Movie Review 5287

This astoundingly awful 1959 horror and sci-fi mixture is another ghoulishly ghastly movie from writer-producer-director Edward D Wood Jr, ever renowned as the maker of the world’s most enjoyable worst movie, Plan 9 from Outer […]

Apr, 14

The Silence of the Hams [Il Silenzio dei Prosciutti] * (1994, Ezio Greggio, Dom DeLuise, Billy Zane, Joanna Pacula, Charlene Tilton, Martin Balsam, Rip Taylor, Shelley Winters) – Classic Movie Review 5013

Writer-producer-director- star Ezio Greggio’s 1994 comedy is a horrible, laugh-free parody of The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and other killer thrillers, mainly Psycho (1960). It is opportunist and pathetic and lacks the imagination to have any […]

Feb, 07

Night of the Living Dead **** (1968, Judith O’Dea, Duane Jones, Karl Hardman, Keith Wayne) – Classic Movie Review 4842

Co-writer/ director George A Romero’s eerie, grizzly 1968 horror movie Night of the Living Dead, with its yarn about a group of panicked strangers holing up in an isolated farmhouse to elude a throng of […]

Jan, 04

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