Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Stir of Echoes ***½ (1999, Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe, Zachary David Cope, Illeana Douglas, Kevin Dunn) – Classic Movie Review 4823

Kevin Bacon stars in Stir of Echoes (1999) as cynical Chicago phone lineman labourer Tom Witzky, who challenges his sister-in law Lisa (Illeana Douglas) to hypnotise him, and finds himself given a sixth sense as a […]

Dec, 30 · in Reviews

Stir Crazy *** (1980, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Georg Stanford Brown, JoBeth Williams, Craig T Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 4822

Director Sidney Poitier’s amiable enough 1980 comedy again pairs Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, this time as would-be actors Skip and Harry, who end up in America’s hinterlands, going Stir Crazy after being framed for […]

Dec, 30 · in Reviews

Games ***½ (1967, Simone Signoret, James Caan, Katharine Ross, Don Stroud, Kent Smith, Estelle Winwood) – Classic Movie Review 4821

Director Curtis Harrington’s teasing, satisfying 1967 thriller stars James Caan and Katharine Ross as a games-playing, good-time young Manhattan married couple, Paul and Jennifer Montgomery, who take in to their posh home a foreign door-to-door […]

Dec, 30

How Awful About Allan **½ (1970, Anthony Perkins, Julie Harris, Joan Hackett, Kent Smith) – Classic Movie Review 4820

Director Curtis Harrington’s intense 1970 psychological thriller stars Anthony Perkins as Allan, a tormented psychosomatic blind man who thinks that his release from an eight-month stay in a mental hospital and his proximity to his […]

Dec, 30

Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? *** (1972, Shelley Winters, Mark Lester, Chloe Franks, Ralph Richardson, Lionel Jeffries, Hugh Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 4819

Director Curtis Harrington’s bizarre 1972 British horror thriller is his entertaining follow-up to his 1971 What’s the Matter with Helen? and reunites him with one of its stars, Shelley Winters, who plays dotty old Auntie […]

Dec, 29

What’s the Matter with Helen? ***½ (1971, Debbie Reynolds, Shelley Winters, Dennis Weaver, Micheál MacLiammóir, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 4818

Director Curtis Harrington’s 1971 horror thriller is a prime slice of deliciously hammy, creepy melodrama, in which the delightful seasoned troupers Debbie Reynolds and Shelley Winters have a grand old time as Thirties Hollywood mothers, […]

Dec, 29

What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? **** (1969, Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon, Rosemary Forsyth, Robert Fuller, Mildred Dunnock) – Classic Movie Review 4817

This extremely tasty 1969 black comedy mystery chiller is producer Robert Aldrich’s third Grand Guignol horror film after What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) and Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964). However, this time there is no […]

Dec, 29

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