Derek Winnert

Blood Relatives [Les Liens de Sang] *** (1978, Donald Sutherland, Stéphane Audran, Donald Pleasence, David Hemmings, Aude Landry, Lisa Langlois) – Classic Movie Review 6268

This dark and mysterious 1978 sexual crime mystery chiller with an incest theme comes from the renowned French director Claude Chabrol, who gives his bleak-toned adaptation of an Ed McBain novel a touch of class. […]

Nov, 18 · in Reviews

The Blood of Others [Le Sang des Autres] * (1984, Jodie Foster, Michael Ontkean, Sam Neill, Lambert Wilson, Stéphane Audran) – Classic Movie Review 6267

Director Claude Chabrol’s 1984 World War Two drama, set in German occupied Paris under the horrors of Nazism, is very strongly cast but over-long at 135 minutes and struggling. Brian Moore adapts the novel by […]

Nov, 18 · in Reviews

Blood of the Vampire *** (1958, Donald Wolfit, Barbara Shelley, Vincent Ball, Victor Maddern, Andrew Faulds) – Classic Movie Review 6266

Director Henry Cass’s lusty 1958 British horror movie stars Donald Wolfit as the anaemic mad scientist Dr Callistratus, who uses criminal inmates of his 1880 Transylvania insane asylum for his blood-typing research and transfusion experiments to replenish […]

Nov, 18

Justice League ** (2017, Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller) – Movie Review

Justice League (2017) is more of the same but weaker and lamer as everything is rehashed in Zack Snyder’s sequel to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016). It has the same virtues and the same flaws, […]

Nov, 17

Only the Brave *** (2017, Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Jeff Bridges) – Movie Review

Josh Brolin stars as Eric Marsh, the head of the Prescott, Arizona, Fire Department who gets approval from the Mayor to organise a Hotshot front line forest fire fighting crew in 2007. He recruits and […]

Nov, 17

Storm Over the Nile * (1955, Anthony Steel, Laurence Harvey, James Robertson Justice, Ronald Lewis, Ian Carmichael, Mary Ure) – Classic Movie Review 6265

Directors Zoltan Korda and Terence Young’s completely unwanted CinemaScope remake of the great 1939 Zoltan Korda adventure classic The Four Feathers, based on the novel by A E W Mason, does not even have the […]

Nov, 17

Mo’ Better Blues *** (1990, Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Wesley Snipes, Joie Lee) – Classic Movie Review 6264

Writer-producer-director Spike Lee goes for an abrupt change of pace with this arty and sentimental 1990 movie tale about the life of New York trumpet player and bandleader Bleek Gilliam (impeccably played by Denzel Washington). He forms […]

Nov, 16

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