Derek Winnert

Reviews

Alone in the Dark ** (1982, Donald Pleasence, Jack Palance, Martin Landau) – Classic Movie Review 12,395

A power failure frees four mental asylum inmates, who then run amok and try to kill their psychiatrist director (Donald Pleasence) and his family, in Jack Sholder’s 1982 debut film Alone in the Dark. Co-writer/ […]

Jan, 16

Mac and Me ** (1988, Christine Ebersole, Jonathan Ward, Tina Caspary, Lauren Stanley, Jade Calegory) – Classic Movie Review 12,394

The 1988 sci-fi film Mac and Me flopped at the box office, disliked for its plot lines similar to E.T. and its McDonald’s and Coca-Cola product placement. It is now regarded as one of the […]

Jan, 15

Fair Haven *** (2016, Michael Grant, Tom Wopat, Gregory Harrison, Josh Green, Tom Malloy, Lisa Varga) – Classic Movie Review 12,393

Michael Grant stars as young James, who returns to his Vermont family apple farm and his father (Tom Wopat) after Christian gay conversion therapy. The earnest, warm-hearted 2016 gay-themed movie Fair Haven deals with the […]

Jan, 14

Who Are We? *** (2022, Felix Maria Berger, Patrick Isopp, Victor Ramos, Alexander Diwiak, Saskia Norman, Marc Buchegger, Jason Cloud) – Classic Movie Review 12,392

Careful what you wish for. One swipe can destroy a relationship. David and Chris spice up their relationship by turning to a gay dating app, throwing four lives into turmoil.  There is plenty of drama […]

Jan, 14

The Final Programme *** (1973, Jon Finch, Jenny Runacre, Hugh Griffith, Patrick Magee, Sterling Hayden, Julie Ege, Harry Andrews, Graham Crowden, George Coulouris) Classic Movie Review 12,391

Robert Fuest’s 1973 dystopian, darkly humorous and very stylish sci-fi thriller film The Final Programme stars Jon Finch as a playboy physicist who reveals a scheme for the creation of an ideal, self-replicating, immortal human […]

Jan, 13

Flaming Feather * (1952, Sterling Hayden, Forrest Tucker, Barbara Rush, Richard Arlen, Victor Jory, Edgar Buchanan) – – Classic Movie Review 12,390

The 1951 Technicolor Western film Flaming Feather stars Sterling Hayden as farmer Tex McCloud, who, helped by cavalryman Lieutenant Tom Blaine (Forrest Tucker), has to hunt outlaw Lucky Lee (Victor Jory).  Director Ray Enright’s rather […]

Jan, 12

Man Alive *** (1945, Pat O’Brien, Ellen Drew, Adolphe Menjou, Rudy Vallee, Fortunio Bonanova) – Classic Movie Review 12,389

The bright and funny 1945 wartime romantic comedy film Man Alive has a feisty star performance by Pat O’Brien as ‘Speed’ McBride, reported drowned in a car crash and playing a ghost to stop his […]

Jan, 12

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