Derek Winnert

The Mind of Mr Soames ** (1970, Terence Stamp, Robert Vaughn, Nigel Davenport, Christian Roberts, Donal Donnelly) – Classic Movie Review 8475

Amicus Productions tries for classy science fiction with director Alan Cooke’s 1970 British sci-fi drama The Mind of Mr Soames, starring Terence Stamp, Robert Vaughn, Nigel Davenport, Christian Roberts, and Donal Donnelly, based on the […]

May, 17 · in Reviews

The Brigand of Kandahar *** (1965, Ronald Lewis, Oliver Reed, Duncan Lamont) – Classic Movie Review 8474

‘His Plundering Army of Bandit Raiders Sweeps to Glory Across the Plains of India!’ Hammer Films studios recast a rather handsome young Oliver Reed, star of their The Pirates of Blood River (1962) and The […]

May, 17 · in Reviews

Brigham Young **** (1940, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Brian Donlevy, Dean Jagger, Jane Darwell, Vincent Price, John Carradine, Mary Astor) – Classic Movie Review 8473

Director Henry Hathaway’s 1940 historical adventure saga of pioneering Mormons and the founding of Salt Lake City stars Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell and Brian Donlevy, with Dean Jagger on good form as Brigham Young, the […]

May, 16

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979, Michael Caine, Sally Field, Telly Savalas, Karl Malden, Peter Boyle, Jack Warden, Slim Pickens, Shirley Jones, Shirley Knight, Veronica Hamel) – Classic Movie Review 8472

Alas poor Michael Caine! This is his second bad movie at the start of a bad late Seventies run for him, working in America on Irwin Allen’s 1979 Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, the terrible sequel […]

May, 16

John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum *** (2019, Keanu Reeves, Halle Berry, Ian McShane, Laurence Fishburne, Mark Dacascos, Asia Kate Dillon, Anjelica Huston, Mark Dacascos) – Movie Review

Director Chad Stahelski returns for the 2019 third installment of Keanu Reeves’s hit action crime thriller series John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, with some dazzlingly brilliant action scenes and stunts, actually many, many dazzlingly brilliant […]

May, 16

The Shaggy Dog *** (1959, Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk) – Classic Movie Review 8471

Director Charles Barton’s 1959 black and white family fantasy The Shaggy Dog is a daft slapstick comedy tale from the far-off days when the Walt Disney studio had previously not yet so far made a slapstick […]

May, 15

The Shaggy D A ** (1976, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette, Tim Conway, Keenan Wynn) – Classic Movie Review 8470

Director Robert Stevenson’s 1976 The Shaggy D A is Walt Disney’s belated sequel to the 1959 hit The Shaggy Dog, with Dean Jones in Tommy Kirk’s old part as the barking mad attorney who transforms […]

May, 15

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