Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Romper Stomper ** (1992, Russell Crowe, Daniel Pollock, Jacqueline McKenzie) – Classic Movie Review 6955

Writer-director Geoffrey Wright’s pacy, noisy and unrestrained 1992 Australian film looks at the social forces that bring about a tribe of neo-Nazi skinheads who are enraged how their neighbourhood is changing and battle rival Vietnamese […]

Apr, 22 · in Reviews

Clownhouse ** (1989, Nathan Forrest Winters, Brian McHugh, Sam Rockwell) – Classic Movie Review 6954

Writer-director Victor Salva’s first feature Clownhouse is a creepy 1989 American slasher horror film with a fairly high body count. Nathan Forrest Winters, Brian McHugh and Sam Rockwell (in his film debut) play Casey and his older brothers Geoffrey […]

Apr, 22 · in Reviews

The Only Game in Town *** (1970, Elizabeth Taylor, Warren Beatty, Charles Braswell) – Classic Movie Review 6953

‘Dice was his vice. Men hers.’ In his last film, distinguished director George Stevens abandoned epic statements for a small-scale story, based on Frank D Gilroy’s play, with a screenplay written by Frank D Gilroy. […]

Apr, 21

Only the Valiant *** (1951, Gregory Peck, Ward Bond, Gig Young, Lon Chaney Jr, Barbara Payton, Neville Brand, Jeff Corey, Warner Anderson, Steve Brodie) – Classic Movie Review 6952

‘THEY WERE SIX AND THEY FOUGHT LIKE SIX HUNDRED!’ Director Gordon Douglas’s 1950 Western is based on the 1943 novel by Charles Marquis Warren and is basically a dirty-half-dozen, with plenty of manly appeal. Gregory Peck […]

Apr, 21

Piranha Part Two: The Spawning [Piranha II: The Spawning] ** (1981, Tricia O’Neil, Steve Marachuk, Lance Henriksen) – Classic Movie Review 6951

Jeff Schechtman, the co-producer of Piranha (1978), went on to produce a troubled sequel, Piranha Part Two: The Spawning [Piranha II: The Spawning], in 1981, directed by James Cameron no less. It stars Tricia O’Neil […]

Apr, 20

Powder ** (1995, Sean Patrick Flanery, Jeff Goldblum, Mary Steenburgen, Lance Henriksen) – Classic Movie Review 6950

Writer/ director Victor Salva’s 1995 drama Powder is a weird Buena Vista Pictures [Walt Disney] teen fantasy tale of a freakish, bald, deathly-white misfit teenager (Sean Patrick Flanery) with paranormal powers, who realises his potential through […]

Apr, 20

Powder River ** (1953, Rory Calhoun, Cameron Mitchell, Corinne Calvet) – Classic Movie Review 6949

Director Louis King’s 1953 Western stars Cameron Mitchell as Mitch Herdin, an alcoholic doctor with a brain tumour, who helps new Wyatt Earp-like marshal Chino Bullock (Rory Calhoun), who is trying to find his prospecting […]

Apr, 20

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