Derek Winnert

Expresso Bongo **** (1959, Laurence Harvey, Sylvia Syms, Yolande Donlan, Cliff Richard) – Classic Movie Review 3952

Director Val Guest’s 1959 British black and white musical drama Expresso Bongo is a fascinating period piece, and snapshot of a long-ago time and place. It is far more fragrant of its era than the Eighties homage movie […]

Jun, 30 · in Reviews

Help! ***** (1965, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Leo McKern, Eleanor Bron, Victor Spinetti, Roy Kinnear) – Classic Movie Review 3951

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Immediately following up his hit A Hard Day’s Night (1963), director Richard Lester again captures much of the Beatles’ charisma and works on exploring something of what makes them tick in this funny, freewheeling, fanciful musical […]

Jun, 30 · in Uncategorized

Despair [Eine Reise ins Licht] *** (1978, Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch, Volker Spengler) – Classic Movie Review 3,950

Dirk Bogarde stars in German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1978 English-language film Despair [Eine Reise ins Licht] about Hermann Hermann, a 1930s Russian immigrant chocolate magnate businessman in Germany who begins to fall apart and […]

Jun, 29

Querelle *** (1982, Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau) – Classic Movie Review 3949

Writer-producer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1982 film adaptation of the legendary Jean Genet novel Querelle de Brest, which deals lustily with homosexual love, prostitution, drugs and crime, is visually, sexually and emotionally extravagant and lurid. Set […]

Jun, 29

The Killer Shrews ** (1959, James Best, Ingrid Goude, Ken Curtis, Gordon McLendon, Baruch Lumet) – Classic Movie Review 3915

‘Your skin will crawl with fear at their nearness’. Jay Simms’s story imagines a group of people are being terrorised on an isolated island by giant voracious shrews during a hurricane. A mad doctor is making humans half […]

Jun, 29

Attack of the Giant Leeches * (1959, Ken Clark, Yvette Vickers, Bruno VeSota, Tyler McVey, Jan Shepard ) – Classic Movie Review 3912

‘Fear will pierce your flesh… Until every nerve in your body… EXPLODES!’ Yes, but not all American International Pictures executive producer Roger Corman and producer Gene Corman’s movies have mitigating factors. Director Bernard Kowalski’s $70,000 1959 sci-fi horror […]

Jun, 29

Attack of the Crab Monsters ** (1957, Richard Garland, Pamela Duncan, Russell Johnson) – Classic Movie Review 3,913

Roger Corman’s cult favourite 1957 monster movie Attack of the Crab Monsters has a wild title and a big ugly creature. He recalled: ‘This was the most successful of all the early low budget horror […]

Jun, 29

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