Derek Winnert

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The Collector **** (1965, Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar, Mona Washbourne) – Classic Movie Review 8681

Director William Wyler’s 1965 The Collector stars Terence Stamp as a dangerously withdrawn, deranged bank clerk and butterfly collector called Freddie Clegg, who decides to collect human specimens, and abducts a young woman art student […]

Jul, 07

Highly Dangerous [Time Running Out] *** (1950, Margaret Lockwood, Dane Clark, Marius Goring, Naunton Wayne) – Classic Movie Review 4979

Margaret Lockwood stars in the J Arthur Rank Organisation’s 1950 British spy film Highly Dangerous as entomologist Frances Gray, sent by British Intelligence on a dangerous espionage mission to an Eastern European Iron Curtain country to […]

Feb, 02

Terror out of the Sky * (1978, Efrem Zimbalist Jnr, Tovah Feldshuh, Dan Haggerty) – Classic Movie Review 3103

‘Oh my God. His mouth. It’s full of BEES!’ – Pathologist.  Director Lee H Katzin brings the bees back in this less nifty and even dafter 1978 sequel to 1976’s The Savage Bees, with a […]

Nov, 26

Ant-Man *** (2015, Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Corey Stoll, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Peña, Bobby Cannavale) – Movie Review

Paul Rudd keeps surprisingly cheery as con-man Scott Lang who enjoys the double-edged sword of the ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, apparently at will, so he can get out of trouble whenever […]

Jul, 08

Mimic 2 **½ (2001, Alix Koromzay, Bruno Campos, Will Estes) – Classic Movie Review 2004

Formulaic but quite creepy and atmospheric 2001 direct-to-DVD sequel to the 1997 chiller hit with none of the original stars. A New York police detective named Det. Klaski (Bruno Campos) suspects that a high school […]

Dec, 28

Mimic **** (1997, Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Alexander Goodwin, Charles S Dutton, Josh Brolin) – Classic Movie Review 2003

Co-writer/director Guillermo del Toro’s exciting 1997 horror movie stars Mira Sorvino as scientist/entomologist Dr Susan Tyler, who genetically creates and conjures up a new breed of insect to destroy killer cockroaches that carry a virulent […]

Dec, 28

Angels and Insects *** (1995, Mark Rylance, Patsy Kensit, Kristin Scott Thomas) – Classic Movie Review 1,702

Co-writer/director Philip Haas’s 1995 British drama, written with Belinda Haas, is an intriguing, involving and provocative oddity, based on A S Byatt’s intelligent 1992 novella Morpho Eugenia.  Co-writer/director Philip Haas’s 1995 British drama film, written […]

Sep, 22

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