Derek Winnert

Convict 99 *** (1938, Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Basil Radford, Googie Withers) – Classic Movie Review 8391

Will Hay gets to do his priceless tatty teacher turn again as disgraced school master Dr Benjamin Twist, in director Marcel Varnel’s pleasant and mildly amusing 1938 vintage British black and white comedy Convict 99, […]

Apr, 23 · in Reviews

Class Action ** (1991, Gene Hackman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Colin Friels) – Classic Movie Review 8390

Gene Hackman and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio star as father and daughter San Francisco lawyers Jed and Maggie Ward, who battle on opposite sides of a lawsuit, in director Michael Apted’s 1990 thriller Class Action. Will […]

Apr, 23 · in Reviews

Class *** (1983, Jacqueline Bisset, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Alan Ruck, John Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 8389

The Brat Pack meets Mrs Robinson in director Lewis John Carlino’s 1983 Class. Jacqueline Bisset has certainly got class as Ellen, the rich, attractive older woman who has a fling with the naive 17-year-old scholarship […]

Apr, 23

Heaven Help Us [Catholic Boys] **** (1985, Donald Sutherland, Andrew McCarthy, John Heard, Kevin Dillon) – Classic Movie Review 8388

Director Michael Dinner’s 1985 Heaven Help Us [Catholic Boys] is a fresh and funny film about Catholic high school life at St Basil’s Catholic Boys’ Prep School in Brooklyn in 1965 that manages to put […]

Apr, 23

The Amityville Horror *** (2005, Ryan Reynolds, Melissa George, Jesse James, Jimmy Bennett, Chloë Grace Moretz, Rachel Nichols) – Classic Movie Review 8,387

Ryan Reynolds and Melissa George star in the 2005 supernatural horror film The Amityville Horror as young married couple George and Kathy Lutz, who move into a large elegant Long Island house, the site of […]

Apr, 22

American Guerrilla in the Philippines ** (1950, Tyrone Power, Micheline Presle, Tom Ewell) – Classic Movie Review 8386

Director Fritz Lang’s conscientious 1950 World War Two wartime-set adventure movie American Guerrilla in the Philippines [aka I Shall Return] has the advantage of being filmed where it happened (Manila and Subic Bay in the […]

Apr, 22

Amityville 3 [Amityville 3: The Demon] [Amityville 3-D] ** (1983, Tony Roberts, Tess Harper, Robert Joy, Candy Clark, Meg Ryan, Lori Loughlin) – Classic Movie Review 8385

Now here’s a tall storey! A sceptical reporter called John Baxter (Tony Roberts) buys the infamous Long Island Amityville horror house to write an exposé on what he sees as the supposed supernatural events and […]

Apr, 22

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