Derek Winnert

Ghost Stories ** (2017, Andy Nyman, Martin Freeman, Paul Whitehouse, Alex Lawther) – Movie Review

Andy Nyman stars as a parapsychology professor, the arch sceptic Professor Phillip Goodman, stumbles across a long-lost file containing details of three cases of supposedly inexplicable hauntings and must solve the puzzle of the three […]

Apr, 05 · in Uncategorized

Subway **** (1985, Christopher Lambert, Isabelle Adjani, Richard Bohringer, Michel Galabru, Jean-Hugues Anglade) – Classic Movie Review 6.887

Co-writer/ director Luc Besson’s impossibly stylish 1985 Paris Métro French thriller film Subway is above all great fun. Christopher Lambert won a César Award as Best Actor. The one-time Tarzan goes punk as Christopher Lambert (from […]

Apr, 04 · in Reviews

The Student Prince ** (1954, Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, John Ericson, John Williams, Edmund Gwenn, S Z Sakall, Louis Calhern) – Classic Movie Review 6886

Sigmund Romberg’s classic operetta The Student Prince is stodgily filmed by MGM in 1954, but nothing stops those vintage Romberg melodies. Mario Lanza’s beautiful tenor voice soars on the soundtrack, but he is nowhere to […]

Apr, 04

The Blob ** (1988, Shawnee Smith, Kevin Dillon, Donovan Leitch, Jeffrey De Munn, Candy Clark, Joe Seneca) – Classic Movie Review 6885

Director Chuck Russell’s 1988 remake of the 1958 horror picture The Blob is co-written by him and Frank Darabont, from a story by Irvine H Millgate, and stars Kevin Dillon as teen rebel Brian Flagg and Shawnee Smith […]

Apr, 04

Bless the Child ** (2000, Kim Basinger, Jimmy Smits, Rufus Sewell) – Classic Movie Review 6884

Kim Basinger stars in some diabolical nonsense as the auntie of Cody, an autistic child with mysterious powers, who is abducted by a sinister cult of Satanists who believe that she holds the key to […]

Apr, 04

Old Heidelberg **** (1927, Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer, Jean Hersholt) – Classic Movie Review 6883

Director Ernst Lubitsch’s 1927 Viennese fairy tale romantic movie is one of the great silent film classics. It stars Norma Shearer and Ramon Novarro. Lubitsch’s beautifully realised bitter-sweet love story is the tale of Austrian crown […]

Apr, 03

Old Gringo ***½ (1989, Jane Fonda, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Smits) – Classic Movie Review 6882

Director Luis Puenzo’s 1989 historical romantic adventure drama stars Jane Fonda as Harriet Winslow, an American spinster who takes a job looking after the children of a wealthy family caught up in the revolution in […]

Apr, 03

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