Derek Winnert

Ride the Pink Horse **** (1947, Robert Montgomery, Wanda Hendrix, Andrea King, Thomas Gomez, Fred Clark, Art Smith) – Classic Movie Review 11,698

Directors Robert Montgomery’s 1947 Universal Studios black and white film noir crime film Ride the Pink Horse is based on the 1946 novel by Dorothy B Hughes, and stars Robert Montgomery, Wanda Hendrix, Andrea King, […]

Nov, 03 · in Reviews

To Sleep with Anger **** (1990, Danny Glover, Paul Butler, Mary Alice, Carl Lumbly, Vonetta McGee, Richard Brooks, Sheryl Lee Ralph) – Classic Movie Review 11,697

Writer-director Charles Burnett’s 1990 film To Sleep with Anger is a beautifully realised domestic drama centring on Southerner Harry (Danny Glover)’s disruptive arrival in the peaceful house of a South Central Los Angeles African-American family. To […]

Nov, 03 · in Reviews

That Man in Istanbul [Estambul 65] ** (1965, Horst Buchholz, Sylva Koscina, Mario Adorf, Perrette Pradier, Klaus Kinski) – Classic Movie Review 11,696

Director Antonio Isasi’s 1965 English-language European international co-production comedy adventure film That Man in Istanbul is a lively, cheeky Sixties Euro spy romp with Horst Buchholz starring as Tony Mecenas, a man about town, and […]

Nov, 02

That Night ** (1992, C Thomas Howell, Juliette Lewis, Eliza Dushku, Helen Shaver, Katherine Heigl) – Classic Movie Review 11,695

Writer-director Craig Bolotin’s 1992 American coming-of-age romantic drama film That Night is based on Alice McDermott’s 1987 novel, and stars C Thomas Howell, Juliette Lewis, Eliza Dushku, Helen Shaver and Katherine Heigl. It is an […]

Nov, 02

Body Snatchers ***½ (1993, Gabrielle Anwar, Billy Wirth, Terry Kinney, Meg Tilly, Christine Elise, R Lee Ermey, Forest Whitaker) – Classic Movie Review 11,694

Abel Ferrara’s taut and tense 1993 sci-fi horror film Body Snatchers stars Gabrielle Anwar, Billy Wirth, Terry Kinney and Meg Tilly. It is only loosely based on the 1955 novel The Body Snatchers by Jack […]

Nov, 01

Seven Minutes *** (1989, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Rebecca Miller, Brian Dennehy, Nigel Le Vaillant, Maggie O’Neill) – Classic Movie Review 11,693

That marvellous Austrian actor Klaus Maria Brandauer leads a splendidly suspense-packed true story thriller as Johann Georg Elser, a German carpenter and clockmaker who takes time out to concoct a plot to kill Adolf Hitler and […]

Oct, 31

The Seven Minutes ** (1971, Wayne Maunder, Marianne McAndrew, Yvonne De Carlo, Philip Carey) – Classic Movie Review 11,692

Sexploitation director Russ Meyer said: ‘They told me “You must do The Seven Minutes. You are the spokesperson against the forces of censorship.”‘ ‘An explosive film about a banned book, a rape, and a trial […]

Oct, 31

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