Derek Winnert

The Night of the Following Day *** (1969, Marlon Brando, Richard Boone, Rita Moreno, Pamela Franklin) – Classic Movie Review 5871

Co-writer/ director Hubert Cornfield’s intelligent, character-driven 1969 crime movie is brisk, complex and involving. Unfairly, it ignominiously went out as the lesser half of a double bill. Although it is an American film, it is shot in Technicolor in […]

Aug, 07 · in Uncategorized

Parenthood **** (1989, Steve Martin, Tom Hulce, Rick Moranis, Martha Plimpton, Keanu Reeves, Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen, Dianne Wiest) – Classic Movie Review 5870

Director Ron Howard’s 1989 comedy drama about the dysfunctional Buckman family provides an excellent star role for Steve Martin as US mid-western father Gil, who tries to be a good husband to wife Karen (Mary Steenburgen) and dad […]

Aug, 07 · in Uncategorized

The Witches **** (1990, Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Jasen Fisher) – Classic Movie Review 5869

‘As far as children are concerned, a witch is easily the most dangerous of all the living creatures on Earth.’ It is perhaps quite surprising to find Nicolas Roeg directing the 1990 film The Witches […]

Aug, 07

The Witches of Eastwick **** (1987, Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer) – Classic Movie Review 5868

Director George Miller’s 1987 horror comedy provides Jack Nicholson with one of his most celebrated roles, giving him the chance to have a devil of a time hamming it up as Daryl Van Horne. He […]

Aug, 06

Night of the Eagle [Burn, Witch, Burn!] **** (1962, Peter Wyngarde, Janet Blair, Margaret Johnston) – Classic Movie Review 5,867

Psychology professor Peter Wyngarde discovers his wife Janet Blair is practising witchcraft, in the scary 1962 British horror film Night of the Eagle [Burn, Witch, Burn!]. The scary 1962 British witchcraft horror film Night of the Eagle [Burn, […]

Aug, 06

Witchcraft *** (1964, Lon Chaney Jr, Jack Hedley, Jill Dixon, David Weston, Viola Keats, Marie Ney) – Classic Movie Review 5866

Director Don Sharp’s 1964 British horror B-movie is a lurid and vigorously handled affair. Harry Spaulding’s screenplay is all about a modern-day housing contractor developing a graveyard where a witch was buried 300 years ago, […]

Aug, 06

Psychomania [The Death Wheelers] * (1973, George Sanders, Nicky Henson, Beryl Reid, Robert Hardy, Roy Holder, Patrick Holt) – Classic Movie Review 5865

Director Don Sharp’s ridiculous, exotically awful 1973 British horror movie curiosity Psychomania [The Death Wheelers] stars Nicky Henson as motorbike gang leader Tom Latham, who discovers the secret of rising from the dead. So he […]

Aug, 06

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