Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

The Shuttered Room *** (1967, Oliver Reed, Gig Young, Carol Lynley, Flora Robson) – Classic Movie Review 7287

Director David Greene’s 1967 British-made chiller The Shuttered Room is a very acceptable film of H P Lovecraft’s spooky story of a husband and wife, Mike and Susannah (Gig Young, Carol Lynley) visiting the orphan […]

Jul, 13 · in Reviews

Guest Wife *** (1945, Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, Dick Foran) – Classic Movie Review 7286

‘It Takes A Smart Girl To Know Her Own Husband!’ Director Sam Wood’s bright and breezy 1945 black and white romantic comedy Guest Wife stars Claudette Colbert) as American small-town wife Mary Price, who upsets her bank […]

Jul, 13 · in Reviews

Mission: Impossible – Fallout **** (2018, Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris, Angela Bassett, Vanessa Kirby, Alec Baldwin, Michelle Monaghan) – Movie Review

As you’ve probably gathered from all the ads and trailers, Tom Cruise is back for his sixth Mission: Impossible, starring once more as Ethan Hunt, who rejoins his sturdy, stalwart little IMF team of Ving […]

Jul, 13

The Guinea Pig [The Outsider] *** (1948, Richard Attenborough, Sheila Sim, Bernard Miles, Robert Flemyng, Cecil Trouncer, Joan Hickson) – Classic Movie Review 7285

Director Roy Boulting’s entertaining 1948 class drama The Guinea Pig (re-titled The Outsider in America) stars Richard Attenborough as 14-year-old Jack Read, the working-class son of London tobacconists Bernard Miles and Joan Hickson, who gets a […]

Jul, 12

Staying Alive ** (1983, John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes) – Classic Movie Review 7284

Director/co-writer Sylvester Stallone’s 1983 romantic musical drama Staying Alive comes up with a sequel to Saturday Night Fever for John Travolta, best described as Rocky meets A Chorus Line. It was a Golden Globe nominee […]

Jul, 12

Man to Man *** (1992, Tilda Swinton) – Classic Movie Review 7283

Filmed by director John Maybury in 1992 using what was then state-of-the-art digital video trickery, Man to Man stars the ever astonishing Tilda Swinton, who re-creates her acclaimed solo stage role as Ella Gericke, a […]

Jul, 12

Path of Blood *** (2018, documentary, director Jonathan Hacker) – Movie Review

Uniquely upsetting and disturbing, Path of Blood is a real-life horror film that needs to be handled with great care. Uniquely upsetting and disturbing, Path of Blood is a terrifying real-life horror film putting the […]

Jul, 12

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