Derek Winnert

Scream ***** (1996, Neve Campbell, Skeet Ulrich, Courteney Cox, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan, David Arquette) – Classic Movie Review 622

A Nineties generation of post-modern teen horror thrillers is kicked off by director Wes Craven’s tremendously edge-of-seat, knowing 1996 chiller Scream. A slasher maniac is on the loose in an American suburban town called Woodsboro, […]

Jan, 03 · in Reviews

Scary Movie *** (2000, Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Jon Abrahams, Marlon Wayans) – Classic Movie Review 621

A serial killer stalks a group of American high-school idiots, a year after they killed a man by accident. Yes, it’s also the plot of I Know What You Did Last Summer! Director Keenen Ivory […]

Jan, 03 · in Uncategorized

Contraband [Blackout] ***** (1940, Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson) – Classic Movie Review 620

Director Michael Powell and co-screenwriter Emeric Pressburger’s fast-moving, scintillating 1940 World War Two spy thriller Contraband [Blackout] reunites them with the brilliant screen team of Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson, the stars of their previous […]

Jan, 03

The Spy in Black [U-Boat 29] ***** (1939, Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie, Helen Haye, Sebastian Shaw, Marius Goring, Cyril Raymond, Mary Morris, June Duprez) – Classic Film Review 619

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger were first brought together by producer Alexander Korda to make the vivacious 1939 World War One spy thriller The Spy in Black starring Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson.  British film-makers […]

Jan, 03

I Know Where I’m Going! **** (1945, Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney) – Classic Movie Review 618

Writer-producer-director Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s typically idiosyncratic 1945 romantic comedy is simply enchanting. The film boasts irresistible acting from the great cast of some of Britain’s most reliable performers of the day, a lovely screenplay with […]

Jan, 03

I Know What You Did Last Summer *** (1997, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Freddie Prinze Jr, Anne Heche) – Classic Movie Review 617

Kevin Williamson, the writer of the reasonably witty Scream, comes up with an incredibly popular if humourless and mechanical teen slasher movie, grimly directed for all its shock value in 1997 by Jim Gillespie. It […]

Jan, 03

Get Real **** (1998, Ben Silverstone, Brad Gorton, Charlotte Brittain) – Classic Movie Review 616

Boy meets boy. Boy likes boy. Boy oh boy! School’s out and so’s adolescent Steve Carter (Ben Silverstone) in director Simon Shore’s 1998 movie. It’s a refreshingly sweet, cute, charming and compelling coming-out, coming-of-age, and […]

Jan, 03

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