Derek Winnert

Poltergeist *** (2015, Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt, Kennedi Clements, Jared Harris) – Movie Review

Director Gil Kenan reboots, reimagines and brings up to date Steven Spielberg’s 1982 classic tale about a family whose new suburban home is invaded by angry spirits. It’s a sign of the times that in […]

May, 19 · in Reviews

Empire of the Ants * (1977, Joan Collins, Robert Lansing, John David Carson, Albert Salmi, Jacqueline Scott) – Classic Movie Review 2500

Director Bert I Gordon’s hysterically awful 1977 science fiction horror movie Empire of the Ants is made in the 50s-style, but was actually made in the 70s, about holidaymakers in Florida buying into a phony […]

May, 19 · in Reviews

Earth Vs the Flying Saucers **½ (1956, Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Donald Curtis) – Classic Movie Review 2,499

Warning! Take Cover! Flying Saucers Invade Our Planet! Director Fred F Sears’s 1956 sci-fi thriller film Earth Vs the Flying Saucers is an effective humans-against-the-aliens movie, with decent Ray Harryhausen effects. Warning! Take Cover! Flying […]

May, 19

Earth vs the Spider ** (1958, Ed Kemmer, June Kenney, Eugene Persson) – Classic Movie Review 2498

Producer-director Bert I Gordon’s 1958 black and white sci-fi chiller offers Fifties Z-grade creature feature entertainment that’s still quite a lot of fun viewing, at least on a friendly kitsch and camp level. Gordon also wrote […]

May, 18

Time to Kill **** (1942, Lloyd Nolan, Heather Angel, Ethel Griffies, James Seay, Doris Merrick) – Classic Movie Review 2497

Time to Kill (1942) is the first screen adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s novel The High Window and the final Michael Shayne film starring Lloyd Nolan made at Fox, which then closed down their popular B-movie […]

May, 17

The Brasher Doubloon [The High Window] **** (1947, George Montgomery, Nancy Guild, Conrad Janis, Florence Bates) – Classic Movie Review 2496

Director John Brahm’s 1947 film noir detective thriller The Brasher Doubloon is smart and intriguing, though, even so, it is probably the least good (apart from Michael Winner’s The Big Sleep) and least well-known (apart […]

May, 17

Winner Take All *** (1932, James Cagney, Marian Nixon, Guy Kibbee, Virginia Bruce, Dickie Moore) – Classic Movie Review 2,494

Warner Bros’ punchy 1932 boxing drama film Winner Take All stars James Cagney as a talented upcoming boxer called Jimmy Kane, who falls for a sweet widow (Marian Nixon) with a kid (Dickie Moore). Producer-director […]

May, 17

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