Derek Winnert

Bell, Book and Candle **** (1958, James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Hermione Gingold, Elsa Lanchester, Janice Rule) – Classic Movie Review 5091

Director Richard Quine’s super-tasty 1958 comedy is lightweight but delicious Fifties fantasy fun, based on the play John Van Druten, with an expert screenplay by Daniel Taradash. With Technicolor cinematography by James Wong Howe and sets […]

Mar, 01 · in Reviews

Picnic **** (1955, William Holden, Kim Novak, Arthur O’Connell, Rosalind Russell, Susan Strasberg, Cliff Robertson, Betty Field, Nick Adams) – Classic Movie Review 5090

Director Joshua Logan’s heated and touching 1955 romantic drama is a high-powered version of William Inge’s Pulitzer prize-winning play about sexual turmoil in a small Kansas town. All the star players grab their chances to […]

Mar, 01 · in Reviews

Liebestraum * (1991, Kevin Anderson, Bill Pullman, Kim Novak, Pamela Gidley) – Classic Movie Review 5089

Unfortunately, writer-composer-director Mike Figgis lets arty images take the place of interesting characterisation and a decent plot in his pretentious, low-voltage 1991 neo noir mystery thriller. Kevin Anderson stars as Nick Kaminsky, a young professor […]

Mar, 01

Phffft! **** (1954, Jack Lemmon, Judy Holliday, Jack Carson, Kim Novak) – Classic Movie Review 5,088

The sparky, surprisingly sexy, 1954 bedroom farce film Phffft! stars funny Jack Lemmon and Judy Holliday as a couple who marry and then split up and divorce after eight years of marriage. It’s kind of […]

Mar, 01

Vampire’s Kiss **** (1988, Nicolas Cage, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jennifer Beals, Elizabeth Ashley) – Classic Movie Review 5087

‘Seduction. Romance. Murder. The things one does for love.’ Director Robert Bierman’s 1988 black comedy horror movie is a brilliant, scarily decadent vampire story with a truly essential Nicolas Cage performance, as a creepy literary […]

Mar, 01

The Vampire’s Ghost * (1945, John Abbott, Charles Gordon, Peggy Stewart, Grant Withers, Adele Mara, Roy Barcroft) – Classic Movie Review 5086

John Abbott stars as an old African gangster named Webb Fallon who is running a bar in a small African port. But he is really a vampire cursed as undead in the 16th century, in director […]

Mar, 01

Verboten! **** (1959, James Best, Susan Cummings, Tom Pittman, Paul Dubov, Harold Day) – Classic Movie Review 5085

‘A MAD GENERATION… Spawned In Lust… Consumed By Hate!’ Writer-producer-director Samuel Fuller’s 1959 drama of troubled life in postwar Germany after the fall of the Third Reich is an intelligent, robust and tough-toned movie. There […]

Mar, 01

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