Derek Winnert

Back to the Future Part III **** (1990, Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen) – Classic Movie Review 1935

For the final Back to the Future film of the trilogy in 1990, screenwriter Bob Gale comes up with the appealing idea to send Marty McFly (Michael J Fox) back to 1885. Marty has to […]

Dec, 08 · in Uncategorized

Back to the Future ***** (1985, Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover) – Classic Movie Review 1933

The popular Family Ties (1982-1989) TV star Michael J Fox vrooms to big screen fame as Marty McFly, a 1985 teenager accidentally whisked back to 1955 in a plutonium-powered DeLorean time-machine car, invented by his […]

Dec, 08 · in Uncategorized

Au Revoir Les Enfants ***** (1987, Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö, Francine Racette) – Classic Movie Review 1927

Writer-director Louis Malle’s haunting 1987 semi-autobiographical spellbinder, based on a searingly traumatic event in his childhood, is an exquisitely made, heart-breaking real-life story of appalling cruelty and inhumanity that resonates in the widest context. Set in […]

Dec, 07

Revenge of the Creature *** (1955, John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield, Nestor Paiva) – Classic Movie Review 1932

‘Weird Monster Escapes! Terror Seizes City!’ The 1955 monster movie Revenge of the Creature brings scientists back to the Amazon’s Black Lagoon, where the Gill Man (Ricou Browning/ Tom Hennesy) is captured and then transported […]

Dec, 07

The Creature Walks Among Us *** (1956, Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason, Leigh Snowden) – Classic Movie Review 1931

The tacky, amusing 1956 Universal horror movie The Creature Walks Among Us is the third and final Gill Man film. Jeff Morrow and Rex Reason try to uncover the Gill Man in Florida and breed […]

Dec, 07

Creature from the Black Lagoon **** (1954, Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, Whit Bissell) – Classic Movie Review 1930

Universal Studios’ 1954 film Creature from the Black Lagoon is an endearing monster movie, featuring the rubber-costumed Gill Man (Ricou Browning in the water and Ben Chapman on dry land), a prehistoric beast fascinated by […]

Dec, 07

The Climax *** (1944, Boris Karloff, Susanna Foster, Turhan Bey) – Classic Movie Review 1929

The Climax is an excellent, little-known vintage Universal Studios horror movie that finds Boris Karloff back in mad doctor mode as Dr Hohner, a demented physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, who becomes obsessed with a […]

Dec, 07

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