Derek Winnert

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The Sleeping Car Murders **** (1965, Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Pierre Mondy, Cathérine Allegret, Jacques Perrin, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Charles Denner, Michel Piccoli) – Classic Movie Review 12,041

Writer-director Costa-Gavras’s 1965 French mystery thriller film The Sleeping Car Murders [Compartiment Tueurs] [The Sleeping Car Murder] is based on a novel by Sébastien Japrisot, and stars Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Pierre Mondy, Cathérine Allegret, […]

Apr, 03

Scene of the Crime [Ladykiller] ** (1996, Ben Gazzara, Alex McArthur, Stephen Davies) – Classic Movie Review 9942

Ben Gazzara is excellent in director Terence H Winkless’s contrived, dark-toned but taut and highly watchable 1996 psychological thriller, Scene of the Crime [Ladykiller]. Despite being under investigation for a blunder that resulted in his […]

Jun, 20

Green for Danger ***** (1946, Alastair Sim, Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Megs Jenkins, Leo Genn, Rosamund John) – Classic Movie Review 6960

‘Follow this man in the FOOTSTEPS of MURDER!’ Co-writer/ director Sidney Gilliat’s 1946 British black comedy Green for Danger stars Alastair Sim at the zenith of his comic genius as the eccentric Inspector Cockrill of […]

Apr, 23

The Limehouse Golem **** (2016, Bill Nighy, Douglas Booth, Olivia Cooke, Daniel Mays, Eddie Marsan, Sam Reid) – Movie Review

National treasure Bill Nighy is excellent as London copper John Kildare doggedly on the trail of a Victorian Limehouse serial killer. He involves himself in the fate of Lizzie Cree (Olivia Cooke), who is about to be hanged […]

Aug, 31

Creepy ***½ (2016, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yûko Takeuchi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Masahiro Higashide, Toru Baba) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 2016 Japanese serial killer thriller film Creepy is just that – creepy! Teruyuki Kagawa plays the creep Nishino, the distinctly oddball new neighbour of the former Tokyo police detective Takakura (Hidetoshi Nishijima), who has […]

Nov, 18

Year of the Dragon **** (1985, Mickey Rourke, John Lone, Ariane) – Classic Movie Review 3965

Director Michael Cimino’s ferocious 1985 thriller Year of the Dragon is complex and exciting. It boasts a convincingly dangerous star performance from Mickey Rourke as Stanley White, the police detective on the edge who is […]

Jul, 03

Scream 2 **** (1997, Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Laurie Metcalf, Jerry O’Connell, Jada Pinkett, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jamie Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 2830

Two years after the slasher maniac went on a killing spree in the American suburban town called Woodsboro, the survivors of Scream (1996) are back for a second bout of expert terror, as cash-in film-makers […]

Aug, 18

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