Derek Winnert

Cat Girl *** (1957, Barbara Shelley, Robert Ayres, Kay Callard) – Classic Movie Review 2758

Director Alfred Shaughnessy’s 1957 Anglo-American horror movie stars Barbara Shelley, who is perfectly cast in this eerie chiller as Leonora Brandt, a young woman who returns to her ancestral home and is told she has inherited […]

Jul, 30 · in Reviews

The Amazing Colossal Man *** (1957, Glenn Langan, Cathy Downs, William Hudson, James Seay, Larry Thor, Russ Bender) – Classic Movie Review 2757

Producer/co-writer/director Bert I Gordon’s 1957 sci-fi monster movie about an atomic explosion that starts an American army officer growing terrifyingly into a giant is endearing and quite lively. Glenn Langan stars as Lieutenant Colonel Glenn […]

Jul, 30 · in Reviews

To Sir, with Love *** (1967, Sidney Poitier, Judy Geeson, Christian Roberts, Suzy Kendall, Adrienne Posta, Lulu, Patricia Routledge, Faith Brook) – Classic Movie Review 2756

Writer-director James Clavell’s 1967 British school drama provides an excellent role for American star Sidney Poitier, though admittedly he turns up unexpectedly in a London inner-city school for hard knocks. There he teaches troublesome pupils Judy Geeson, Suzy […]

Jul, 30

The Anniversary *** (1968, Bette Davis, Jack Hedley, James Cossins, Sheila Hancock, Christian Roberts, Elaine Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 2755

Director Roy Ward Baker’s viciously funny 1968 British movie The Anniversary stars Bette Davis, who, as expected, pulls out all the stops in a total tour-de-force as Mrs Taggart, a one-eyed, merciless monster of a mommie […]

Jul, 30

Cub [Welp] ***½ (2014, Maurice Luijten, Evelien Bosmans, Titus De Voogdt) – Movie Review

Co-writer/director Jonas Govaerts‘s Cub is a really good horror movie in the classic style. It starts nice and tense and creepy, then it turns plenty gory and exciting, and it is topped off with a surprising ending. […]

Jul, 30

Beyond the Reach *** (2014, Michael Douglas, Jeremy Irvine, Ronny Cox, Martin Palmer) – Movie Review

Old Michael Douglas and young Jeremy Irvine fight it out in a battle to the death as high-rolling corporate shark Madec and his poor young guide Ben on a hunting trip in the Mojave Desert. Ronny […]

Jul, 29

Hot Pursuit * (2015, Reese Witherspoon, Sofía Vergara, Matthew Del Negro) – Movie Review

Reese Witherspoon and Sofía Vergara are certainly game for a laugh but have nothing fresh or funny to add to 2013’s very similar The Heat with Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy. This time it’s Witherspoon who […]

Jul, 29

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