Derek Winnert

Reviews

Femme *** (2023, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, George MacKay, Aaron Heffernan) -– Classic Movie Review 12,790

The 2023 British thriller film Femme is a powerful, disturbing slice of London life starring Nathan Stewart-Jarrett as a drag performer targeted by thugs in a homophobic attack. Later, he encounters his main attacker (George […]

Jan, 12

Criminal Lovers [Les amants criminel] ***½ (1999, Natacha Régnier, Jérémie Renier, Salim Kechiouche, Miki Manojlovic) – Classic Movie Review 12,789

Natacha Régnier stars in Criminal Lovers (1999) as French high school student Alice, who has convinced her malleable boyfriend Luc (Jérémie Renier) to kill their sexually provocative classmate Saïd (Salim Kechiouche). Belgian actress Natacha Régnier […]

Jan, 11

Madame Sans-Gêne [Madame] ** (1961, Sophia Loren, Robert Hossein, Julien Bertheau, Renaud Mary, Léa Gray, Gianrico Tedeschi, Marina Berti) – Classic Movie Review 12,788

The 1961 Euro romance film Madame Sans-Gêne [Madame] is an attractive but sluggish remake of a famous 1893 hit play, and stars Sophia Loren as a Paris laundress who follows Napoleon’s army to the battlefront […]

Jan, 09

Mad About the Boy: The Noel Coward Story *** (2023, documentary, voice Rupert Everett, Alan Cumming) – Classic Movie Review 12,787

Mad About the Boy: The Noel Coward Story (2023) is a lovely, delightful, delicious ramble down memory lane, with glorious clips, quotes and home movies. Rupert Everett is marvellous as the voice of Noel Coward, […]

Jan, 08

Campsite Massacre [The Final Terror] ** (1983, John Friedrich, Adrian Zmed, Daryl Hannah, Rachel Ward, Joe Pantoliano) – Classic Movie Review 12,786

Andrew Davis’s 1983 horror thriller film Campsite Massacre [The Final Terror] is a slickly made, if tacky and derivative teen pic, in which a group of rangers go camping and start getting killed by a […]

Jan, 08

Code of Silence *** (1985, Chuck Norris, Henry Silva, Bert Remsen, Molly Hagen, Joseph Guzaldo, Dennis Farina) – Classic Movie Review 12,785  

The exciting, fast-paced 1985 American neo noir action thriller movie Code of Silence is rightly regarded as one of Chuck Norris’s strongest films. Andrew Davis’s fast-paced 1985 thriller Code of Silence stars Chuck Norris as a renegade […]

Jan, 08

Assassin for Hire *** (1951, Sydney Tafler, Ronald Howard, Katharine Blake) – Classic Movie Review 12,783

The 1951 British crime film Assassin for Hire is an unexpectedly decent little thriller starring Sydney Tafler as a London Soho contract killer led to believe wrongly that he has killed his brother. Director Michael McCarthy’s […]

Jan, 07

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