Derek Winnert

Strangers on a Train ***** (1951, Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman, Leo G Carroll, Patricia Hitchcock, Marion Lorne, Howard St John) – Classic Movie Review 68

Farley Granger and Robert Walker star as strangers who meet on a train, in the inspired 1951 Alfred Hitchcock suspense thriller Strangers on a Train. One is a psychopath who suggests they exchange murders so neither […]

Jul, 19 · in Reviews

Requiem for a Dream ***** (2000, Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly) – Classic Movie Review 67

For his 2000 follow-up to his hugely promising debut Pi (1998), director Darren Aronofsky comes up with an astonishing, uniquely haunting movie. It takes us to a dark and dangerous place. The author of the […]

Jul, 19 · in Reviews

Repulsion **** (1965, Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux, Patrick Wymark) – Classic Movie Review 66

‘I must get this crack mended.’ How can this ever have sounded more sinister? Making his first film in English in 1965, Polish director Roman Polanski comes up with a uniquely chilling, dark and disturbing […]

Jul, 19

The Wolverine *** (2013, Hugh Jackman, Will Yun Lee, Tao Okamoto) – Movie Review

Where have all the mutants gone? Well, I don’t really know, but The Wolverine has gone to modern-day Japan, summoned by an old acquaintance we see him meeting years ago in the film’s prologue. There […]

Jul, 18

The Kings of Summer **** (2013, Nick Robinson, Gabriel Basso, Moises Arias, Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, Erin Moriarty) – Movie Review

Three lost, dazed and confused teenaged American Mid-West boys, Joe (Nick Robinson), Patrick (Gabriel Basso) and Biaggio (Moises Arias), quit their comfy homes and annoying families and take to the woods, where they spend an […]

Jul, 18

To Kill a Mockingbird ***** (1962, Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy, Brock Peters, Mary Badham, Paul Fix, Robert Duvall) – Classic Movie Review 65

Thanks to the sensitive yet passionate handling of director Robert Mulligan and his regular producer Alan J Pakula, this triple Oscar-winner is one of those rare enough occasions when a great novel becomes great film. […]

Jul, 18

Gremlins ***** (1984, Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Corey Feldman, Hoyt Axton, Keye Luke, Dick Miller, Harry Carey Jr) – Classic Movie Review 64

Brilliantly on-form director Joe Dante and writer Chris Columbus deliver a perfectly delightful and deliciously cynical horror comedy in Gremlins in 1984. It is great vicious fun throughout and now a treasured, minor little classic […]

Jul, 18

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