Derek Winnert

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Legend *** (1985, Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry) – Classic Movie Review 1516

Director Ridley Scott’s quite enchanting, glorious looking, magical 1985 fantasy adventure stars the hot young 23-year-old star Tom Cruise as a woodland creature, the forest boy called Jack O’ the Green, who is trying to save a unicorn […]

Aug, 04

Scary Movie 2 (2001, Anna Faris, Regina Hall) – Classic Movie Review 1180

No sequel, my eye! Breaking the promise made by the first movie, ‘No mercy, no shame, no sequel’, the Scary Movie characters are back in the Wayans Bros’s outlandish, pretty sick and mean-spirited 2001 swift […]

May, 06

Hellboy **** (2004, Ron Perlman, Doug Jones, Selma Blair, Jeffrey Tambor) – Classic Movie Review 1068

‘It all began in 1944, a classified mission off the coast of Scotland. The Nazis were desperate. Combining science and black magic they intended to upset the balance of the war. I could never have […]

Apr, 07

Night of the Demon [Curse of the Demon] ****½ (1957, Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis, Maurice Denham, Athene Seyler, Brian Wilde) – Classic Movie Review 500

In director Jacques Tourneur’s 1957 vintage British horror movie Night of the Demon [Curse of the Demon], Niall MacGinnis has a fine old time as occultist and devil cult leader Dr Julian Karswell, who summons […]

Dec, 11

Equus ***** (1977, Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, Jenny Agutter) – Classic Movie Review 445

In 1977, Peter Firth gets to record his 1973 London National Theatre Old Vic theatre role of a lifetime in this sensitive, beautiful Sidney Lumet-directed version of the highly emotional and deeply unsettling, but illuminating and uplifting […]

Nov, 24

Jeepers Creepers **** (2001, Gina Philips, Justin Long, Jonathan Breck) – Classic Movie Review 267

Duel meets Scream in Jeepers Creepers (2001), this really scary, scalding 2001 horror monster movie from writer-director Victor Salva and producer Francis Ford Coppola. Gina Philips and Justin Long star as young Trish and her kid brother […]

Oct, 02

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones *** (2013, Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower, Robert Sheehan, Kevin Zegers, Jemima West, Lena Headey) – Movie Review

Teenage girls (and a few boys) will be in heaven with this flashy special-effects-led Twilight meets Harry Potter fantasy adventure, with a non-stop breathless rush of magic, action, effects and romance. It’s all set in […]

Aug, 22

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