Derek Winnert

Imperium ***½ (2016, Daniel Radcliffe, Toni Collette, Tracy Letts) – Movie Review

I liked it. Writer-director Daniel Ragussis’s 2016 film is most interesting and involving. It works both as a tense thriller and a thought-provoking drama. The range of bad guys is impressive. Leading the good guys, Daniel Radcliffe […]

Oct, 04 · in Reviews

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

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

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