Derek Winnert

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Practical Magic *** (1998, Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock, Dianne Wiest, Stockard Channing, Aidan Quinn, Goran Visnjic) – Classic Movie Review 12,011

Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman star as very different witch sisters, in the fantasy comedy film Practical Magic (1998). Director Griffin Dunne’s 1998 fantasy comedy film Practical Magic is based on the 1995 novel by […]

Mar, 15

Necromancy ** (1972, Orson Welles, Pamela Franklin, Michael Ontkean, Lee Purcell, Harvey Jason) – Classic Movie Review 11,368

A biographer suggested that Orson Welles starred in Necromancy (1972) merely for the money. Do you think? Director Bert I Gordon’s 1972 horror movie Necromancy [NEC’RO•MAN’CY] stars Orson Welles in a daft, low-budget occult thriller, […]

Jul, 05

The Long Hair of Death [I lunghi capelli della morte] *** (1965, Barbara Steele, George Ardisson, Halina Zalewska) – Classic Movie Review 9432

Director Antonio Margheriti’s black and white Gothic 1965 Italian giallo thriller The Long Hair of Death [I Lughi Capelli della Morte] stars Barbara Steele as mysterious vengeful Helen Karnstein, who comes back from the dead to […]

Feb, 26

Night of the Eagle [Burn, Witch, Burn!] *** (1962, Margaret Johnston, Janet Blair, Peter Wyngarde) – Classic Movie Review 5,867

The scary 1962 British witchcraft horror film Night of the Eagle [Burn, Witch, Burn!] stars Margaret Johnston as jealous Flora Carr using black magic on medical professor Norman Taylor (Peter Wyngarde) and his wife Tansy […]

Aug, 06

Spitfire ** (1934, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Young, Ralph Bellamy) – Classic Movie Review 3,940

Katharine Hepburn is a great actress, of course, but playing an illiterate hillbilly mountain girl is quite beyond her, especially one called Trigger Hicks! Director John Cromwell’s 1934 drama film Spitfire stars a miscast Katharine Hepburn, […]

Jun, 26

The Witch *** (2015, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie) – Movie Review

Something wicked this way comes. Writer-director Robert Eggers has already won four prestigious awards for his classy and chilling horror movie, based on America’s first witch hysteria in New England, 60 years before the Salem witch trials. It […]

Feb, 19

The Witches ** (1966, Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh, Alec McCowen) – Classic Movie Review 3068

Director Cyril Frankel’s 1966 horror movie is a typical Hammer Films outing into the territory of black magic, the occult, voodoo and witchcraft. It features two effective performances – from a rather film-starry Joan Fontaine […]

Nov, 17

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