Derek Winnert

Captain Webb *** (2015, Warren Brown, Steve Oram, Georgia Maguire, Terry Mynott, Hannah Tointon) – Movie Review

Warren Brown captures exactly the right note as retired merchant seaman Captain Matthew Webb, who on 25 August 1875 survives fierce winds, treacherous currents and multiple jellyfish stings to swim from Dover to the shores […]

Aug, 06 · in Uncategorized

Fantastic Four [FANT4STIC] ** (2015, Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B Jordan, Jamie Bell, Toby Kebbell, Reg E Cathey, Tim Blake Nelson) – Movie Review

The 2015 reboot Marvel Comics superhero film Fantastic Four [FANT4STIC] was a critical and box-office failure and won Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Director and Picture.  It is ten years since the first Fantastic Four (2005) and eight since Fantastic 4: Rise of […]

Aug, 06 · in Uncategorized

Work is a Four-Letter Word * (1968, David Warner, Cilla Black, Elizabeth Spriggs, Zia Mohyeddin, Alan Howard, David Waller) – Classic Movie Review 2783

Henry Livings’s award-winning absurdist play Eh? about giant magic mushrooms gets a livelier title and the then Sixties pop princess Cilla Black, plus a classy star in David Warner, posh theatre director in Peter Hall and […]

Aug, 05

The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb ** (1964, Terence Morgan, Ronald Howard, Fred Clark, Jeanne Roland, Jack Gwillim, George Pastell, John Paul) – Classic Movie Review 2,784

Michael Carreras’s 1964 Hammer horror The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb is the first sequel to their 1959 film The Mummy, and stars Terence Morgan as the villain, Ronald Howard as the hero, and Fred […]

Aug, 05

Countess Dracula **** (1971, Ingrid Pitt, Nigel Green, Sandor Elès) – Classic Movie Review 2781

Co-writer/director Peter Sasdy’s 1971 Hammer Films horror tale stars Ingrid Pitt as the aging widowed Countess Elizabeth Nádasdy, who discovers that she can become young again if she bathes in the blood of young virgins. […]

Aug, 05

Twins of Evil ***½ (1971, Madeleine Collinson, Mary Collinson, Peter Cushing, Dennis Price, Kathleen Byron, Damien Thomas) – Classic Movie Review 2,780

Hammer Films’ 1971 horror movie Twins of Evil is splendid Gothic vampire stuff, done with unusual zest and style. The Collinson twins (and Playboy playmates) Mary and Madeleine star as the title duo of identical […]

Aug, 04

The Scars of Dracula ** (1970, Christopher Lee, Dennis Waterman, Jenny Hanley, Anouska Hempel, Patrick Troughton, Michael Gwynn) – Classic Movie Review 2779

A rubber bat creaks down a wire and dribbles ketchup from the corner of its mouth onto a skeleton in an open coffin, and this fades in and out on an image of Christopher Lee. […]

Aug, 04

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