Derek Winnert

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The Hearse * (1980, Trish Van Devere, Joseph Cotten, David Gautreaux) – Classic Movie Review 9952

Director George Bowers’s 1980 film The Hearse stars Trish Van Devere as San Francisco schoolteacher Jane Hardy, who for the summer moves into an old house inherited from her deceased devil worshipper aunt in the […]

Jun, 23

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage [L’uccello dalle piume di cristallo] **** (1970, Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno, Eva Renzi, Umberto Raho) – Movie Review 8150

The ‘Italian Hitchcock’ Dario Argento’s first film as writer-director The Bird with the Crystal Plumage [L’uccello dalle piume di cristallo] (1970) is a dizzy, spinning web of outright shocks, audience manipulation, off-centre film trickery and […]

Feb, 19

West of the Divide ** (1934, John Wayne, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Yakima Canutt) – Classic Movie Review 7176

West of the Divide (1934) – A young John Wayne stars in a pacy Lone Star B Western.  John Wayne stars in writer-director Robert N Bradbury’s 1934 Lone Star/ Monogram Pictures black and white Western West […]

Jun, 16

The Burning [Ardor] *** (2014, Gael García Bernal, Alice Braga, Chico Díaz) – Movie Review

Gael García Bernal stars as Kai, a mysterious tattooed stranger who emerges from the Argentinian rainforest to rescue farm girl Vania (Alice Braga), the kidnapped daughter of a poor farmer, after mercenaries murder her father […]

Jun, 17

Once Upon a Time in the West [C’era una volta il West] ***** (1968, Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Jason Robards) – Classic Movie Review 140

Complexly plotted, thrilling, vast in scale and visually breathtaking, Italian director Sergio Leone’s epic masterwork Once Upon a Time in the West [C’era una volta il West] (1968) is one of the cinema’s greatest Westerns […]

Aug, 09

Hearts in Atlantis **** (2001, Anthony Hopkins, Anton Yelchin, Hope Davis) – Classic Movie Review 94

Based on a Stephen King story, Hearts in Atlantis (2001) is a subtle, exquisitely crafted, perfect little gem of a coming-of-age movie. ‘Whenever it wants the past can come kicking the door down.’ Based on […]

Jul, 27

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