Derek Winnert

The Catered Affair [Wedding Breakfast] *** (1956, Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds, Barry Fitzgerald, Rod Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 8154

Gifted writer Paddy Chayefsky followed his Marty and The Bachelor Party with another realistic ‘ordinary people’ TV play about Mrs Tom Hurley, a New York Bronx mother insisting on a big wedding with hundreds of […]

Feb, 20 · in Reviews

Catchfire **** (1990, Dennis Hopper, Jodie Foster, Dean Stockwell, Vincent Price, John Turturro, Joe Pesci, Fred Ward, Julie Adams) – Classic Movie Review 8153

Director Dennis Hopper’s 1990 Catchfire [Backtrack] stars Jodie Foster as an alluring modern artist called Anne Benton, who witnesses a mob killing and goes on the run from town to town, switching identities, chased by […]

Feb, 20 · in Uncategorized

Four Flies on Grey Velvet [4 mosche di velluto grigio] *** (1971, Michael Brandon, Mimsy Farmer, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Francine Racette, Bud Spencer) – Classic Movie Review 8152

‘When the flies start to crawl, so will your flesh…’ Writer-director Dario Argento’s 1971 Italian giallo horror thriller Four Flies on Grey Velvet [4 mosche di velluto grigio] is the third in director Argento’s Animal Trilogy, following The […]

Feb, 19

The Cat o’ Nine Tails [Il gatto a nove code] *** (1971, James Franciscus, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak) – Classic Movie Review 8151

‘As the body count increases, will no one escape the sting of the cat o’ nine tails’. Director Dario Argento’s 1971 giallo horror mystery thriller The Cat O’ Nine Tails [Il Gatto a Nove Code] […]

Feb, 19

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage [L’uccello dalle piume di cristallo] **** (1970, Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno, Eva Renzi, Umberto Raho) – Movie Review 8150

The ‘Italian Hitchcock’ Dario Argento’s first film as writer-director The Bird with the Crystal Plumage [L’uccello dalle piume di cristallo] (1970) is a dizzy, spinning web of outright shocks, audience manipulation, off-centre film trickery and […]

Feb, 19

Assault [In the Devil’s Garden] ** (1971, Suzy Kendall, Frank Finlay, Freddie Jones, Lesley-Anne Down) – Classic Movie Review 8149

Director Sidney Hayers’s 1971 British mystery crime drama Assault [In the Devil’s Garden] stars Frank Finlay as Detective Chief Superintendent Velyan, who hunts for a serial rapist killer of young women in an English village. This […]

Feb, 19

The Stuff *** (1985, Michael Moriarty, Andrea Marcovicci, Paul Sorvino, Scott Bloom, Danny Aiello, Garrett Morris, Patrick O’Neal) – Classic Movie Review 8148

Writer/ director Larry Cohen’s 1985 fantasy comedy The Stuff is an amusing send-up of Fifties sci-fi horror pics, with the engaging, funny performances from a talented cast compensating for the rather uneven writing and apparently […]

Feb, 18

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