Derek Winnert

Dragged Across Concrete **** (2018, Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Tory Kittles, Thomas Kretschmann) – Movie Review

Writer-director S Craig Zahler’s epic action crime thriller Dragged Across Concrete is slow and talky, but just this one time maybe this proves a good thing, and it delivers really strongly over its extended two […]

Apr, 21 · in Reviews

Cat’s Eye *** (1985, Drew Barrymore, James Woods, Alan King) – Classic Movie Review 8384

Director Lewis Teague’s 1985 compendium / portmanteau/ anthology horror movie Cat’s Eye is a trilogy of Stephen King’s suspense and terror tales (Quitters Inc, The Ledge, The General), with King’s screenplay competently directed for mild […]

Apr, 20 · in Reviews

Creepshow 2 *** (1987, George Kennedy, Lois Chiles, Domenick John) – Classic Movie Review 8383

Director Michael Gornick’s 1987 horror anthology sequel Creepshow 2 has three more Stephen King EC Comics-inspired stories adapted in the screenplay by George A Romero, the director of the first Creepshow (1982), and this time […]

Apr, 20

Creepshow **** (1982, Hal Holbrook, Leslie Nielsen, Adrienne Barbeau) – Classic Movie Review 8382

Despite two of horror’s biggest names and some of Hollywood’s most reliable actors, the 1982 horror anthology movie Creepshow is all too gross and sometimes uncertain of tone to be totally entertaining. Yet, still, its […]

Apr, 20

P’tang, Yang, Kipperbang [Kipperbang] **** (1982, John Albasiny, Alison Steadman, Abigail Cruttenden) – Classic Movie Review 8381

Director Michael Apted’s 1982 P’tang, Yang, Kipperbang [Kipperbang] is one of Channel 4’s First Love series of films, which was rewarded with a cinema screening release in the UK and an American release too as […]

Apr, 19

Cathy Come Home ***** (1966, Carol White, Ray Brooks, Winifred Dennis) – Classic Movie Review 8380

Director Ken Loach’s realistic black and white classic 1966 BBC TV drama The Wednesday Play: Cathy Come Home is a searing indictment of the social services in the British welfare system of the Sixties, focusing on […]

Apr, 19

Puppet on a Chain ** (1971, Sven-Bertil Taube, Barbara Parkins, Alexander Knox, Patrick Allen, Vladek Sheybal) – Classic Movie Review 8379

Director Geoffrey Reeve’s 1971 British thriller Puppet on a Chain is the always-popular macho action movie, based on the novel by Alistair MacLean, in which spies root out drug runners in Amsterdam, giving an obvious […]

Apr, 18

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