Derek Winnert

In the Heart of the Sea ** (2015, Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Whishaw, Tom Holland, Benjamin Walker) – Movie Review

‘The tragedy of the Essex is the story of men. And a Demon.’ Ben Whishaw plays the author Herman Melville, who in the 1850s turns up at the home of Tom Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson), who […]

Dec, 16 · in Reviews

The Peanuts Movie *** (2015, voices of Noah Schnapp, Bill Melendez, Hadley Belle Miller, Alexander Garfin) – Movie Review

Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy (Hadley Belle Miller), Linus (Alexander Garfin), Peppermint Patty, Pig-Pen and the Peanuts gang make their big-screen debut in charming, smartly designed, state of the art 3D animation, based on the comic […]

Dec, 16 · in Reviews

Star Wars: The Force Awakens **** (2015, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver, Mark Hamill) – Movie Review

After the perhaps rather underwhelming last three Star War films, director J J Abrams said he wanted The Force Awakens to be closer to the original trilogy and that’s exactly what he’s come up with – a […]

Dec, 16

The Vampire Bat *** (1933, Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 3159

‘These are the TALONS of The Vampire Bat’ Director Frank Strayer’s deliciously dated 1933 horror movie stars Lionel Atwill as Dr Otto von Niemann, a batty scientist who sends his hapless helpers Ruth Bertin (Fay […]

Dec, 15

The Vampire *** (1957, John Beal, Kenneth Tobey, Dabbs Greer, Coleen Gray) – Classic Movie Review 3,158

John Beal stars in the 1957  American horror film The Vampire as Dr Paul Bleecher, who inadvertently ingests pills laced with the blood of vampire bats and takes on vampiric qualities.  ‘It Feeds on the Blood of Beautiful […]

Dec, 15

Vampire Circus *** (1972, John Moulder-Brown, Laurence Payne, Adrienne Corri, Lynne Frederick, Thorley Walters, Elizabeth Seal, Anthony Higgins) – Classic Movie Review 3157

Director Robert Young’s 1972 Hammer Films British chiller Vampire Circus is a neat, eerie and attractively strange Hammer horror about a 19th-century touring circus show, whose performers are vampires, able to break through the black […]

Dec, 15

Vampire in Venice [Nosferatu a Venezia] ** (1988, Klaus Kinski, Christopher Plummer, Donald Pleasence, Barbara De Rossi) – Classic Movie Review 3156

Klaus Kinski resurrects his role as the infamous vampire Nosferatu in writer-director Augusto Caminito’s visually impressive semi-sequel to Werner Herzog’s 1979 Nosferatu the Vampyre. In the story by Alberto Alfieri and Leandro Lucchetti, a splendidly […]

Dec, 15

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