Derek Winnert

The Looking Glass War **½ (1970, Christopher Jones, Ralph Richardson, Anthony Hopkins, Paul Rogers, Pia Degermark, Susan George, Anna Massey) – Classic Movie Review 4,849

Frank Pierson’s 1970 British thriller film The Looking Glass War is a passable dour and downbeat espionage entertainment. Christopher Jones stars as a young Polish defector who is recruited as a spy by MI6. Writer-director […]

Jan, 05 · in Reviews

Wild in the Streets *** (1968, Christopher Jones, Shelley Winters, Hal Holbrook, Millie Perkins, Ed Begley, Richard Pryor) – Classic Movie Review 4848

Director Barry Shear’s intelligent and amusing 1968 youth satire stars Christopher Jones as rock star and presidential aspirant Max Flatow (aka Max Frost), who is elected US President when 14-year-olds are allowed to vote. ‘I […]

Jan, 05 · in Reviews

Chubasco *** (1967, Christopher Jones, Richard Egan, Susan Strasberg, Ann Sothern) – Classic Movie Review 4847

Writer-director Allen H Miner’s insignificant but pacy and attractive 1967 tuna-fishing adventure drama, conceived as a vehicle for the then hot young couple Christopher Jones and Susan Strasberg, must have seemed hopelessly outmoded and way […]

Jan, 05

Assassin’s Creed ** (2016, Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, Charlotte Rampling) – Movie Review

Australian director Justin Kurzel graduates from directing Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard in Wlliam Shakespeare’s Macbeth (2015) to directing Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard in game series spinoff Assassin’s Creed. Well, fair enough, you go where you can. What we have here is a […]

Jan, 05

Three in the Attic *** (1968, Christopher Jones, Yvette Mimieux, Judy Pace, Maggie Thrett, Nan Martin, Reva Rose, John Beck) – Classic Movie Review 4846

Director Richard Wilson’s provocative and fairly amusing 1968 Swinging Sixties sex comedy drama with a point to it Three in the Attic stars Christopher Jones as womanising Paxton Quigley, a smarmy two-timing (well, three-timing) college […]

Jan, 04

Blood Bath * (1966, William Campbell, Linda Saunders, Marissa Mathes, Sid Haig) – Classic Movie Review 4845

‘A new HIGH in BLOOD-CHILLING HORROR!’ Writer-directors Jack Hill and Stephanie Rothman’s 1966 horror film stars William Campbell, Linda [Lori] Saunders, Marissa Mathes, and Sid Haig as Abdul the Arab. This much-troubled Roger Corman produced effort […]

Jan, 04

Queen of Blood ** (1966, John Saxon, Basil Rathbone, Dennis Hopper, Judi Meredith, Florence Marly) – Classic Movie Review 4844

‘Turns the Milky Way into a Galaxy of Gore.’ Director Curtis Harrington’s 1966 B-movie Pathécolor sci-fi horror film is based on the screenplay for the 1963 Soviet film Mechte Navstrechu [A Dream Come True] and stars John Saxon, […]

Jan, 04

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