Derek Winnert

Braindead [Dead Alive] *** (1992, Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody, Ian Watkin) – Classic Movie Review 8415

In 1992, Peter Jackson could be described as a ‘quirky horror director who makes irregular assaults on the senses’ and here in the zombie attack black comedy horror movie Braindead [Dead Alive] he goes one […]

Apr, 30 · in Reviews

Too Hot to Handle *** (1938, Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Walter Connolly, Leo Carrillo, Marjorie Main) – Classic Movie Review 8,414

Clark Gable and Myrna Loy, Hollywood’s then reigning king and queen, bring their luminous presences to MGM’s 1938 romantic comedy adventure film Too Hot to Handle [Let ‘Em All Talk], a tale of a news […]

Apr, 30 · in Reviews

Boyz n the Hood **** (1991, Cuba Gooding Jr, Laurence Fishburne, Morris Chestnut, Ice Cube, Nia Long, Tyra Ferrell, Angela Bassett, Regina King) – Classic Movie Review 8413

Writer-director John Singleton’s 1991 phenomenon of a movie, Boyz n the Hood caused riots and huge queues at the box-office in the US, though at heart it is a fairly routine tale of growing up […]

Apr, 30

Tora! Tora! Tora! *** (1970, Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, James Whitmore, Jason Robards, Edward Andrews, Leon Ames, George Macready) – Classic Movie Review 8412

Director Richard Fleischer’s 1970 Tora! Tora! Tora! is a huge-budget wartime disaster movie that re-creates the whole story of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Sunday  7 December 1941, as US code breakers work […]

Apr, 29

Closet Land *** (1991, Madeleine Stowe, Alan Rickman) – Classic Movie Review 8411

The 1991 political thriller Closet Land stars Alan Rickman as a cultured but sadistic secret policeman inquisator (the (Interrogator) who tries to extort information out of his blindfolded victim, the supposedly subversive children’s writer (the […]

Apr, 29

My New Gun ** (1992, Diane Lane, James Le Gros, Stephen Collins, Tess Harper, Bill Raymond) – Classic Movie Review 8410

Writer-director Stacy Cochran’s 1992 thriller My New Gun stars Diane Lane as Debbie Bender, a thirtysomething New Jersey suburban housewife who is given a gun by her successful radiologist husband Gerald (Stephen Collins). But it […]

Apr, 29

The Key ** (1958, William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard, Oskar Homolka) – Classic Movie Review 8,409

In World War II, British tugboat captains pass on the key to a home-port apartment, where lonely war widow Sophia Loren lives, in the 1958 film The Key. Director Carol Reed’s 1958 British black and […]

Apr, 28

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