Derek Winnert

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Hells Angels on Wheels ** (1967, Adam Roarke, Jack Nicholson, Sabrina Scharf) – Classic Movie Review 3865

The young Jack Nicholson’s presence as a gas station attendant – or petrol pump worker – called Poet confers cult status on director Richard Rush’s interesting and amusingly dated, if rather draggy 1967 biker movie […]

Jun, 15

The Hills Have Eyes **** (1977, Susan Lanier, Robert Houston, Virginia Vincent, Russ Grieve, Dee Wallace, Martin Speer, Michael Berryman) – Classic Movie Review 2814

Writer-director Wes Craven’s 1977 horror movie is a great, in-your-face, visceral shocker which established his international reputation. In the credible horror story, a tribe of deformed, inter-bred crazed cannibals pick off people on holiday, whose car […]

Aug, 15

The Petrified Forest ***** (1936, Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart) – Classic Movie Review 2702

Robert Sherwood’s classic doom-laden and symbolic play is too reverentially and stagily shot in 1936 by Archie L Mayo, who is content to deliver it as a rather creaky movie museum piece of filmed theatre and not […]

Jul, 19

Voodoo Man ** (1944, Bela Lugosi, John Carradine, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 2482

‘HIS LUST FOR VOODOOISM SPELLS D-O-O-M!’ Bela Lugosi stars as voodoo-practising Dr Richard Marlowe, who tries to save his zombie wife from a 20-year-long trance by abducting other ladies and reducing them to a catatonic […]

May, 14

Bullitt ***** (1968, Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn) – Classic Movie Review 941

British director Peter Yates’s 1968 thriller is the best-ever car chase movie as well as (arguably) the quintessential Steve McQueen movie. There’s a riveting police detective yarn too, in which one San Francisco cop is the […]

Mar, 19

Out of the Past [Build My Gallows High] ***** (1947, Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming) – Classic Movie Review 914

Director Jacques Tourneur’s brilliant 1947 film noir classic Out of the Past [Build My Gallows High] is an extremely engrossing, especially rousing thriller. It is the quintessence of noir, one of the most typical and […]

Mar, 15

The Reflecting Skin **** (1990, Viggo Mortensen, Lindsay Duncan, Jeremy Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 733

Writer-director Philip Ridley’s ultra-disturbing and dazzling 1990 art movie mixes horror, movie poetry and black humour to commanding effect. Jeremy Cooper (aged 10) plays Seth Dove, a fantasising boy in rural America in the 1950s, whose father, […]

Jan, 22

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