Derek Winnert

Tove **** (2020, Alma Pöysti, Krista Kosonen, Shanti Roney, Joanna Haartti, Kajsa Ernst, Robert Enckell, Eeva Putro) – Movie Review

Alma Pöysti stars in director Zaida Bergroth’s biographical drama Tove (2020) as Finnish painter Tove Jansson, in a tale of the artist’s complicated personal relationships and creation of the incredibly popular Moomin comic strips and books. […]

Mar, 23 · in Uncategorized

Room to Let *** (1950, Jimmy Hanley, Valentine Dyall, Christine Silver) – Classic Movie Review 11,037

‘I do not like thee, Doctor Fell, The reason why – I cannot tell; But this I know, and know full well, I do not like thee, Doctor Fell.’ Hammer Films’ 1950 mystery thriller film […]

Mar, 22 · in Reviews

The Lady Craved Excitement ** (1950, Hy Hazell, Michael Medwin, Sidney James, Thelma Grigg, Andrew Keir, Danny Green) – Classic Movie Review 11,036

Director Francis Searle’s 1950 British low-budget black and white Hammer Films production The Lady Craved Excitement is a fairly ordinary, though not too dull Fifties British B-movie comedy mystery thriller, in which the irrepressibly bubbly, […]

Mar, 22

The Man in Black ** (1949, Betty Ann Davies, Sidney James, Anthony Forwood, Sheila Burrell, Valentine Dyall) – Classic Movie Review 11,035

Director Francis Searle’s artificial but intriguing 1949 British Hammer Films Gaslight-style thriller The Man in Black stars Sidney James as a yoga expert called Henry Clavering, who pretends to be dead, using his yoga skills, […]

Mar, 22

Vampyres [Daughters of Darkness] *** (1974, Marianne Morris, Anulka Dziubinska, Murray Brown, Brian Deacon, Sally Faulkner, Michael Byrne) – Classic Movie Review 11,034

‘They shared the pleasures of the flesh, and the horrors of the grave!’ Spanish exploitation director José Ramón Larraz’s provocative, erotic and bloody 1974 British soft-core lesbian vampire horror film Vampyres [Daughters of Darkness] stars […]

Mar, 22

Firebird **** (2021, Tom Prior, Oleg Zagorodnii, Nicholas Woodeson, Diana Pozharskaya) – Movie Review

Director Peeter Rebane’s ambitious 2021 romantic drama Firebird is an intelligent, thoughtful, moving and involving true gay love story set against the repressive background of a Soviet Air Force Base in the era of the […]

Mar, 20

Jump, Darling **** (2020, Thomas Duplessie, Cloris Leachman, Linda Kash) – Movie Review

Writer-director Phil Connell’s appealing, amusing and moving 2020 Canadian drama Jump, Darling stars Thomas Duplessie as Russell, aka rookie drag queen Fishy Falters, who escapes from a break-up with his boyfriend to his grandmother (Cloris […]

Mar, 19

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