Derek Winnert

Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice * (1993, Terence Knox, Paul Scherrer, Ryan Bollman) – Classic Movie Review 5851

A different cast appears in director David F Price’s much worse 1993 belated sequel to the 1984 Children of the Corn, which plays like a re-run of the plot of the first movie. This time a reporter […]

Aug, 04 · in Uncategorized

Children of the Corn **½ (1984, Peter Horton, Linda Hamilton, R G Armstrong, John Franklin, Courtney Gains) – Classic Movie Review 5850

Director Fritz Kiersch is a typically intense and bloodthirsty 1984 horror thriller film version of Stephen King’s short story, first published in the March 1977 issue of Penthouse and later collected in King’s 1978 collection Night Shift. Peter […]

Aug, 04 · in Uncategorized

Shin Gojira [Shin Godzilla] *** (2016, Hiroki Hasegawa, Satomi Ishihara, Yutaka Takenouchi) – Movie Review

Shin Gojira, aka Shin Godzilla, is the thoroughly entertaining 2016 Japanese live-action movie in which Gojira (Godzilla) is portrayed in motion capture by Mansai Nomura, though at the start the monster threatening Tokyo looks like […]

Aug, 04

The Miniver Story *** (1950, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, John Hodiak, Leo Genn, Cathy O’Donnell, Henry Wilcoxon, Reginald Owen) – Classic Movie Review 5849

When he made The Servant in 1963, the film proclaims ‘introducing James Fox’, which is supposed to means that it is someone’s first film, but Fox had been working since he was 10. He was […]

Aug, 03

The Gypsy and the Gentleman *** (1958, Melina Mercouri, Keith Michell, Flora Robson, Patrick McGoohan, June Laverick, Helen Haye, Lyndon Brook) – Classic Movie Review 5848

Director Joseph Losey’s 1958 movie The Gypsy and the Gentleman is a lusty, opulent-looking, lip-smacking British throwback to The Wicked Lady school of romantic period melodramas, though in this just pre-British New Wave era this […]

Aug, 03

Steaming *** (1985, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, Diana Dors, Patti Love, Brenda Bruce, Felicity Dean) – Classic Movie Review 5847

The British women’s steam room drama Steaming from 1985 is a sad occasion as it marks the final movie of both director Joseph Losey and star Diana Dors. Indeed it is advertised as ‘The final […]

Aug, 03

Secret Ceremony *** (1968, Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow, Robert Mitchum, Peggy Ashcroft, Pamela Brown) – Classic Movie Review 5846

Dressed to the nines in Dior, Elizabeth Taylor plays a high-class hooker called Leonora, who acts as surrogate mum to haunted young Cenci (Mia Farrow), in director Joseph Losey’s really oddball 1968 British character study […]

Aug, 02

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