Derek Winnert

Tomorrowland *** (2015, George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Hugh Laurie) – Movie Review

The production designs and digital images are superb in this fun future fantasy, with good bantering chemistry between teenage heroine Britt Robertson and disillusioned veteran George Clooney. Director Brad Bird’s curious, but original and intriguing movie […]

May, 20 · in Reviews

Son of Frankenstein **** (1939, Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Josephine Hutchinson) – Classic Movie Review 2,506

The 1939 horror movie Son of Frankenstein is the third film in Universal’s superb Frankenstein series, the last to star Boris Karloff as the Monster but the first to feature Bela Lugosi as Ygor. Director […]

May, 20 · in Reviews

The Black Cat ***½ (1941, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, Bela Lugosi Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford, Anne Gwynne, Gladys Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 2,505

Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard and Bela Lugosi raise the hairs on the back of the neck, in the spooky and amusing 1941 comedy-mystery horror movie The Black Cat. Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, Bela Lugosi and […]

May, 20

The Black Cat ***** (1934, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Julie Bishop) – Classic Movie Review 2,504

Hungarian psychiatrist Dr Vitus Werdegast (Bela Lugosi) plots a hideous revenge on his old friend Hjalmar Poelzig (Boris Karloff) in the weird and wonderful 1934 horror movie The Black Cat. Director Edgar G Ulmer’s weird […]

May, 20

The Iron Horse ***** (1924, George O’Brien, Madge Bellamy, Charles Edward Bull) – Classic Movie Review 2503

This splendid 1924 classic silent Western from the Fox Film Company and the already expert young director John Ford virtually invented the vocabulary of the genre. The characters’ lives are set against the background of […]

May, 20

Poltergeist II: The Other Side *** (1986, JoBeth Williams, Craig T Nelson, Heather O’Rourke, Zelda Rubinstein) – Classic Movie Review 2502

Those pesky unfriendly Poltergeist spirits come back to haunt the Freeling family from Tobe Hooper’s 1982 hit Poltergeist, in director Brian Gibson’s fair-to-middling, entirely satisfactory 1986 sequel, with some good scares. The main stars are […]

May, 19

Poltergeist III ** (1988, Heather O’Rourke, Tom Skerritt, Nancy Allen, Zelda Rubinstein, Lara Flynn Boyle) – Classic Movie Review 2501

Co-writer/director Gary Sherman’s 1988 third episode brings back only Heather O’Rourke and Zelda Rubinstein from the original two movies. JoBeth Williams and Craig T Nelson having bailed out of part 3, their haunted screen daughter […]

May, 19

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