Derek Winnert

The Vengeance of She ** (1968, Olinka Berova, John Richardson, Edward Judd, Colin Blakely, Derek Godfrey, Noel Willman, André Morell, Jill Melford, George Sewell) – Classic Movie Review 4455

Director Cliff Owen’s 1968 adventure sequel stars Olinka Berova as beautiful young European girl Carol, who is seemingly possessed by the spirit of the long-gone Queen Ayesha of Kuma (She Who Must Be Obeyed), in […]

Oct, 03 · in Reviews

She ***½ (1965, Ursula Andress, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, John Richardson, Bernard Cribbins, André Morell) – Classic Movie Review 4454

Ursula Andress stars as She, the beautiful woman cursed with eternal life until she falls in love, in this Hammer Films studio’s re-filming of H Rider Haggard’s fantasy adventure epic, first shot as a talkie […]

Oct, 03 · in Reviews

She **** (1935, Randolph Scott, Nigel Bruce, Helen Gahagan, Helen Mack, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Samuel S Hinds) – Classic Movie Review 4453

The little known Helen Gahagan makes a majestic ‘She Who Must Be Obeyed’ – the beautiful woman who bathed in flame and lived 500 years  – in directors Irving Pichel and Lansing C Holden’s still-impressive 1935 […]

Oct, 03

The Crimson Rivers [Les Rivières Pourpres] * (2000, Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel, Nadia Farès, Dominique Sanda, Karim Belkhadra, Jean-Pierre Cassel) – Classic Movie Review 4452

The formidable duo of Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel star as Pierre Niemans and Max Kerkerian, a pair of French policemen who are drawn together by a series of grisly murders and a graveyard desecration in Jean-Christophe Grangé’s […]

Oct, 03

One Million BC [Man and His Mate] *** (1940, Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Lon Chaney Jr, John Hubbard, Nigel De Brulier) – Classic Movie Review 4451

Directors Hal Roach and Hal Roach Jr’s daft but different 1940 Stone Age epic fantasy adventure stars Victor Mature, who seems ideally cast as Tumak, a dim-witted caveman struggling for survival. It was immensely popular […]

Oct, 03

The Fencer **** (2015, Märt Avandi, Lembit Ulfsak, Kirill Käro, Joonas Koff, Liisa Koppel) – Movie Review

This sweet and satisfying, truthful and truly moving 2015 Finnish Estonian drama plays like a sword-based, serious-minded, real-life version of Dead Poets Society or School of Rock. Director’s Klaus Härö’s film is incredibly good, never taking a false […]

Oct, 02

Urban Hymn ***½ (2015, Shirley Henderson, Letitia Wright, Ian Hart, Shaun Parkes, Steven Mackintosh) – Movie Review

Shirley Henderson is sensational as troubled but determined social worker Kate Linton, who inspires young female offender Jamie Harrison (Letitia Wright) to use and develop her remarkable singing voice. Set in the wake of the London 2011 […]

Oct, 02

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