Derek Winnert

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A Game of Death *** (1945, John Loder, Audrey Long, Edgar Barrier, Russell Wade) – Classic Movie Review 3523

‘A RACE FOR LIFE IN A CHASE AGAINST DEATH!’ Director Robert Wise’s 1945 low-budget RKO Radio Pictures thriller is based on the famous short story The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell and stars Edgar Barrier […]

Apr, 04

The Curse of the Werewolf **** (1961, Clifford Evans, Oliver Reed, Catherine Feller, Yvonne Romain) – Classic Movie Review 2680

Director Terence Fisher’s 1961 British movie The Curse of the Werewolf gives the 23-year-old Oliver Reed his first taste of stardom as the furry fellow in this creepy Hammer horror set in a Technicolored, sinister […]

Jul, 08

The Most Dangerous Game [The Hounds of Zaroff] ***** (1932, Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks) – Classic Movie Review 1724

Directors Ernest B Schoedsack and Irving Pichel’s still haunting, potent and chilling 1932 horror thriller stars an inspired Leslie Banks as Count Zaroff, a mad Russian nobleman who arranges for a ship to be wrecked […]

Sep, 30

Dreamcatcher **** (2003, Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee) – Classic Movie Review 919

Writer-producer-director Lawrence Kasdan’s 2003 screen adaptation (with William Goldman) of the Stephen King novel is brilliantly ambitious and imaginative. Dreamcatcher cleverly combines all King’s usual themes and plotlines. It’s a buddy-buddy flick, paranormal chiller and […]

Mar, 16

Affliction **** (1997, Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn) – Classic Movie Review 825

Ah, again, the sins of the father! Nick Nolte gives a great barnstorming performance as Wade Whitehouse, a haunted middle-aged New Hampshire small-town sheriff. He is a heavy drinker who has achieved little or nothing in […]

Feb, 13

Predators *** (2010, Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne, Topher Grace, Alice Braga, Danny Trejo) – Classic Movie Review 560

A small group of folk – most of them kick-ass fighters with big guns and knives – find themselves weirdly parachuted down onto an alien planet, largely covered in jungle. They soon encounter the famous […]

Dec, 22

The Trouble with Harry ***** (1955, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Edmund Gwenn) – Classic Movie Review 427

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1955 brilliant, sophisticated black comedy thriller shines like a little diamond. It is set in a gorgeously rich-looking rural autumnal Vermont, where three are three gunshots and Arnie Rogers (Jerry Mathers, aged eight), a […]

Nov, 19

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