Derek Winnert

Reviews

Watercolors ***½ (2008, Tye Olson, Kyle Clare, Greg Louganis, Karen Black) – Classic Movie Review 12,750

The winning bitter-sweet 2008 romantic film Watercolors stars Tye Olson and Kyle Clare as classmates Danny and Carter, two boys who make a splash at love.  ‘Two boys make a splash at love.’  ‘Only art […]

Dec, 07

The Brotherhood of Satan ** (1971, Strother Martin, L Q Jones, Alvy Moore) – Classic Movie Review 12,749

The 1971 horror film The Brotherhood of Satan is a fairly scary, reasonably stylish little chiller, in which witch worship possesses a desert town in the grip of a cult of senior citizens recruiting the […]

Dec, 06

Walk East on Beacon ** (1952, George Murphy, Finlay Currie, Virginia Gilmore) – Classic Movie Review 12,748

The ‘Red threat’ of the Fifties was the main motivating influence – as well as J Edgar Hoover – behind the smooth 1952 Columbia Pictures drama thriller film Walk East on Beacon about the FBI […]

Dec, 06

Burning Days [Kurak Günler] **** (2022, Selahattin Pasali, Ekin Koç, Erol Babaoğlu, Erdem Şenocak, Seli̇n Yeni̇nci̇) – Classic Movie Review 12,747

The intense and stylish 2022 Turkish epic thriller film Burning Days stars Selahattin Pasali as the young new prosecutor in a Turkish small town hit by a water crisis and political scandals. He finds a […]

Dec, 06

Octane [Pulse] **½ (2003, Madeleine Stowe, Mischa Barton, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Norman Reedus) – Classic Movie Review 12,746

There are three good performances from Madeleine Stowe, Mischa Barton and Jonathan Rhys Meyers – plus capable and tense direction by Marcus Adams too – in the flavoursome, atmospheric, quite gripping little 2003 British horror […]

Dec, 04

October Sky **** (1999, Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern, Chris Owen) – Classic Movie Review 12,745

Jake Gyllenhaal stars in Joe Johnston’s 1999 biopic October Sky as American boy Homer Hickam, who sees the launch of a Sputnik in 1957 and wants to build his own rocket, but his gloomy coal-mining […]

Dec, 04

October Moth ** (1960, Lana Morris, Lee Patterson) – Classic Movie Review 12,744

The weird 1960 British black and white short second feature drama film October Moth stars Lee Patterson as a mentally unbalanced man in a remote farm who imagines an accident victim is his long-dead mother, […]

Dec, 04

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