Derek Winnert

Bride of Re-Animator [Re-Animator 2] * (1990, Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Claude Earl Jones) Classic Movie Review 9562

Director Brian Yuzna’s 1990 Re-Animator sequel Bride of Re-Animator [Re-Animator 2] is a dull horror comic, enlivened by amusing touches of black humour (‘better watch out for premature re-animation’) and some typical gross-out make-up effects […]

Mar, 26 · in Reviews

The Maids ** (1975, Glenda Jackson, Susannah York, Vivien Merchant, Mark Burns) – Classic Movie Review 9561

Glenda Jackson and Susannah York enjoy an unusual opportunity chewing up Jean Genet’s strange dialogue in director Christopher Miles’s powerful 1975 film version of his flamboyant play The Maids. Black humour lightens up a dark […]

Mar, 25 · in Opinions,Reviews

Just My Luck ** (1957, Norman Wisdom, Margaret Rutherford, Jill Dixon, Leslie Phillips, Joan Sims, Edward Chapman) – Classic Movie Review 9560

Director John Paddy Carstairs’s 1957 British comedy Just My Luck finds Norman Wisdom re-united with Margaret Rutherford, the co-star of his 1953 debut film Trouble in Store. Just our luck to have Wisdom as Norman […]

Mar, 25

Magic Town **** (1947, James Stewart, Jane Wyman, Kent Smith) – Classic Movie Review 9559

Director William A Wellman’s 1947 comedy Magic Town is an underrated pleasure. It describes the politician’s dream – a Magic Town that is a perfect mirror of American opinions. James Stewart stars as opinion pollster […]

Mar, 25

The Riddle of the Sands *** (1979, Michael York, Simon MacCorkindale, Jenny Agutter, Alan Badel) – Classic Movie Review 9558

Director Tony Maylam’s attractive 1978 adventure The Riddle of the Sands is deliberately old fashioned, with stiff-upper-lip performances, a handsome, well-crafted production and that convincing period atmosphere that the British do so well. The 1903 […]

Mar, 25

Riders to the Stars ** (1954, William Lundigan, Herbert Marshall, Richard Carlson, Dawn Addams, Martha Hyer) – Classic Movie Review 9557

‘SEE! men and equipment float in air, trapped where there is no gravity – no up or down!’ A scientist sends a three-man team into space to retrieve an asteroid, in this entertainingly bizarre, ‘realistic’ […]

Mar, 24

Gog *** (1954, Richard Egan, Constance Dowling, Herbert Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 9556

‘Built to serve man… it could think a thousand times faster! move a thousand times faster! kill a thousand times faster…Then suddenly it became a Frankenstein of steel!’ Producer Ivan Tors provides the story for […]

Mar, 24

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