Derek Winnert

The Beast in the Cellar *** (1971, Beryl Reid, Flora Robson, Tessa Wyatt, John Hamill, T P McKenna, Dafydd Harvard, Vernon Dobtcheff) – Classic Movie Review 7855

Writer-director James Kelley’s 1971 British horror movie The Beast in the Cellar stars the formidable team of Flora Robson and Beryl Reid as Joyce and Ellie Ballantyne, a couple of dear old spinsters who have […]

Nov, 30 · in Reviews

Color of Night * (1994, Bruce Willis, Jane March, Rubén Blades, Lesley Ann Warren, Scott Bakula, Brad Dourif, Lance Henriksen, Kevin J O’Connor) – Classic Movie Review 7854

Director Richard Rush’s 1994 Color of Night is a shameful, atrocious, way-over-the-top farrago of an erotic mystery thriller, with Bruce Willis embarrassing himself as a troubled psychiatrist hounded by death threats and sexy young Rose (played […]

Nov, 30 · in Reviews

Howard the Duck [Howard: A New Breed of Hero] * (1986, Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, Tim Robbins) – Classic Movie Review 7853

Writer-director Willard Huyck’s 1986 comedy Howard the Duck [aka Howard: A New Breed of Hero] is a big bucks mega-flop (known affectionately as Howard the Turkey) from producers George Lucas and co-writer Gloria Katz, who […]

Nov, 29

Too Soon to Love ** (1960, Jennifer West, Richard Evans, Warren Parker, Ralph Manza, Jack Nicholson) – Classic Movie Review 7852

Jack Nicholson co-stars as Buddy in the tolerable 1960 unplanned pregnancy sex/ romantic exploitation drama Too Soon to Love, the feature film directorial debut of Richard Rush, aiming at the drive-in market. It stars Jennifer West, Richard Evans, […]

Nov, 29

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse **** (2018, voices Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Nicolas Cage, Kimiko Glenn, John Mulaney, Liev Schreiber, Hailee Steinfeld, Lily Tomlin) – Movie Review

The live-action Marvel movies have become so CGI dependent that the studio has finally done the logical thing and gone the whole hog and dispensed with actors and sets altogether, and turned them into an […]

Nov, 29

The Wild Ride *** (1960, Jack Nicholson, Georgianna Carter, Robert Bean) – Classic Movie Review 7851

Producer-director Harvey Berman’s 1960 The Wild Ride stars Jack Nicholson as rebellious Beat Generation punk Johnny Varron, an amateur dirt track driver, party boy and trouble maker. [Spoiler alert] Johnny is on the road to ruin. He kidnaps […]

Nov, 28

Studs Lonigan ** (1960, Christopher Knight, Frank Gorshin, Venetia Stevenson, Jack Nicholson, Dick Foran) – Classic Movie Review 7850

Christopher Knight stars in the 1960 drama Studs Lonigan as the title’s character Studs Lonigan, an Irish immigrant who adapts to life on the streets of Chicago and in the beds of various women in […]

Nov, 28

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