Derek Winnert

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À Double Tour [Leda] *** (1959, Antonella Lualdi, Jacques Dacqmine, Madeleine Robinson, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Paul Belmondo) – Classic Movie Review 5354

Director Claude Chabrol’s 1959 Hitchcockian suspense thriller is good if not his best. But it is engagingly told in slick, colourful style with self-conscious flashbacks, witty dialogue and a surprise finish. It is Chabrol’s third […]

Apr, 27

Homicidal ***½ (1961, Joan Marshall, Glenn Corbett, Patricia Breslin, Eugenie Leontovich, Alan Bunce, Richard Rust) – Classic Movie Review 4700

Producer-director William Castle’s mysterious and eerie 1961 Psycho-style shocker is patently absurd but compelling none the less. It stars Joan Marshall as a homicidal nurse called Emily, who shares a mansion with a paralysed Swedish […]

Nov, 25

Corridor of Mirrors *** (1948, Eric Portman, Edana Romney, Barbara Mullen, Hugh Sinclair, Joan Maude, Lois Maxwell, Alan Wheatley) – Classic Movie Review 4449

The 1948 British noir mystery thriller film Corridor of Mirrors stars Eric Portman and Edana Romney in her sole starring vehicle, and is the film debut of both director Terence Young and Christopher Lee. Eric […]

Oct, 02

Raising Cain ** (1992, John Lithgow, Lolita Davidovich, Steven Bauer, Frances Sternhagen, Gregg Henry) – Classic Movie Review 4,430

Brian De Palma’s self-mocking 1992 psychological horror suspense thriller film Raising Cain is stylistically and thematically extravagant, and gleefully self-indulgent. John Lithgow stars as psychopathic, multiple-personality child psychologist Carter Nix. Writer-director Brian De Palma’s self-mocking […]

Sep, 28

Final Analysis ** (1992, Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Uma Thurman, Eric Roberts, Paul Guilfoyle, Keith David, Harris Yulin) – Classic Movie Review 4391

In director Phil Joanou’s 1992 thriller, Richard Gere stars as Dr Isaac Barr, a psychiatrist who falls for Heather Evans (Kim Basinger), the sister of his patient, Diana Baylor (Uma Thurman). Basinger is married to a Greek mobster by […]

Sep, 21

The Bedroom Window **** (1987, Steve Guttenberg, Elizabeth McGovern, Isabelle Huppert) – Classic Movie Review 4,387

Curtis Hanson’s twisty, quite brilliant 1987 neo-noir film The Bedroom Window stars Steve Guttenberg as Terry, who makes love to Sylvia (Isabelle Huppert), his boss’s wife. There ensues a nail-biting, sexy adult thriller that Hitchcock […]

Sep, 21

Le Boucher [The Butcher] ***** (1970, Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia) – Classic Movie Review 4197

Writer-director Claude Chabrol’s tantalizing, mesmerizing 1970 French thriller Le Boucher [The Butcher] is absolutely superb, a miniaturist masterpiece of tension, atmosphere and character. Chabrol’s then wife Stéphane Audran stars as a repressed French provincial small-town […]

Aug, 19

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