Derek Winnert

Enfant Terrible *** (2020, Oliver Masucci, Hary Prinz, Katja Riemann) – Classic Movie Review 11,054

Simply put, director Oskar Roehler’s 2020’s biographical drama Enfant Terrible is a good film of a bad man and a good director. It is a provocative, challenging, depressing film. Oliver Masucci is strikingly excellent as […]

Mar, 29 · in Reviews

Devils of Darkness ** (1965, William Sylvester, Hubert Noël, Carole Gray, Tracy Reed) – Classic Movie Review 11,053

‘Called from the Grave…To Follow a Mystic Cult of Evil’ Director Lance Comfort’s 1965 Devils of Darkness [Talisman] from Planet Film Productions is a sometimes lively shoestring shocker about a villainous vampire, Armand du Molière, aka […]

Mar, 28 · in Reviews

The Devil’s Wanton [Prison] [Fängelse] *** (1949, Doris Svedlund, Birger Malmsten, Eva Henning, Hasse Ekman) – Classic Movie Review 11,052

Writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s gloomy 1949 black and white drama The Devil’s Wanton [Prison] [Fängelse] is an intriguing early work from the Swedish maestro. It is a typically dark and anxiety-ridden, though slightly faltering minor film […]

Mar, 28

Diamonds *** (1975, Robert Shaw, Richard Roundtree, Barbara Hershey, Shelley Winters) – Classic Movie Review 11,051

‘Diamonds Were Forever.’ Director Menahem Golan’s 1975 US/ Israel heist caper thriller Diamonds stars Robert Shaw, who cherishes a gem of a role – twin parts actually as a diamond merchant industrialist who plans a […]

Mar, 27

Diamond Skulls ** (1989, Gabriel Byrne, Amanda Donohoe, Struan Rodger) – Classic Movie Review 11,050

‘The jealousy inside a man’s heart can be the deadliest weapon of all.’ Director Nicholas Broomfield’s 1989 British thriller Diamond Skulls [Dark Obsession] stars Gabriel Byrne as British peer of the realm Lord Hugo Bruckton, […]

Mar, 27

Murder at the Windmill [Mystery at the Burlesque] *** (1949, Garry Marsh, Jack Livesey, Jon Pertwee, Diana Decker, Jimmy Edwards, Peter Butterworth) – Classic Movie Review 11,049

Writer-director Val Guest’s 1949 black and white British crime thriller Murder at the Windmill [Mystery at the Burlesque] is an early production by Nat Cohen, and stars Garry Marsh, Jack Livesey and Jon Pertwee, and […]

Mar, 27

Henry VIII and His Six Wives *** (1972, Keith Michell, Charlotte Rampling, Jane Asher, Donald Pleasence, Lynne Frederick) – Classic Movie Review 11,048

Director Waris Hussein’s 1972 British historical film Henry VIII and His Six Wives stars Keith Michell, who repeats his impressive performance as King Henry VIII in this plush, entertaining and attractive film version of the […]

Mar, 26

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