Derek Winnert

Reviews

Toto the Hero [Toto le Héros] **** (1991, Michel Bouquet, Mireille Perrier, Jo De Backer) – Classic Movie Review 10,777

Belgian director Jaco Van Dormael’s 1991 European cinema film Toto the Hero [Toto le Héros] is a clever, complex, unusual and satisfying film about Thomas (Michel Bouquet) who has planned a deadly revenge since he […]

Jan, 11

Superstition *** (2001, Mark Strong, Sienna Guillory, David Warner, Charlotte Rampling, Frances Barber, Alice Krige) – Classic Movie Review 10,776

Director Kenneth Hope’s tense, eerie and intelligent 2001 true-story thriller Superstition stars Mark Strong as an attorney who seeks the truth when English teenage au pair nanny Julie (Sienna Guillory) is accused of starting a […]

Jan, 11

Dreamscape *** (1984, Dennis Quaid, Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer, Eddie Albert, Kate Capshaw, George Wendt) – Classic Movie Review 10,775

Director Joseph Ruben’s 1984 Sci-Fi film Dreamscape stars Dennis Quaid as Alex Gardner, who finds that he can walk into people’s dreams, and so government scientists enlist his help to sort out the US President […]

Jan, 10

East of Elephant Rock *** (1976, John Hurt, Jeremy Kemp, Judi Bowker, Christopher Cazenove, Anton Rodgers) – Classic Movie Review 10,774

Writer-producer-director Don Boyd’s 1976 British independent drama film East of Elephant Rock is his second feature following the 1975 Intimate Reflections, with his screenplay based on a treatment by journalists Richard Boyle and James Atherton, […]

Jan, 10

East of Sumatra *** (1953 Jeff Chandler, Marilyn Maxwell, Anthony Quinn, Suzan Ball) – Classic Movie Review 10,773

‘For her savage kisses… he plundered the last forgotten corner of the earth!’ Westerns director Budd Boetticher makes an effective job of a run-of-the-mill action yarn about tough tin-miner Duke Mullane (Jeff Chandler) clashing with […]

Jan, 10

Sunstruck *** (1972, Harry Secombe, Maggie Fitzgibbon, John Meillon, Dawn Lake, Peter Whittle, Bobby Limb) – Classic Movie Review 10,772

Director James Gilbert’s 1972 Australian romantic comedy drama Sunstruck stars Harry Secombe, who is ideally cast as Stanley Evans, an amiable but reticent Welsh teacher who acts on a poster he sees offering work in […]

Jan, 09

Eat the Peach *** (1986, Stephen Brennan, Eamon Morrissey, Catherine Byrne) – Classic Movie Review 10,765

Co-writer/ director Peter Ormrod’s 1986 film Eat the Peach is an appealing Ealing Studios-style Irish comedy about two jobless young Irish buddies – dreamer Vinnie (Stephen Brennan) and his sidekick Arthur (Eamon Morrissey) – who see […]

Jan, 07

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