Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "killer"

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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter ** (1984, Erich Anderson, Judie Aronson, Peter Barton, Kimberly Beck) – Classic Movie Review 8266

Jason Voorhees escapes from the morgue, kills, returns to Camp Crystal Lake and rampages again, targeting the Jarvis family and a group of teenagers next door, in director Joseph Zito’s grim and grisly 1984 horror […]

Mar, 19

The Snowman ** (2017, Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Val Kilmer, J K Simmons) – Movie Review

The Snowman is a disappointment, not a disaster. It’s okay, it passes the time, but much more is needed. The problems are the story lacks credibility and there’s no chemistry between Michael Fassbender and his […]

Oct, 20

Small Town Crime ** (2017, John Hawkes, Octavia Spencer, Robert Forster, Anthony Anderson, Clifton Collins Jr, Michael Vartan, Daniel Sunjata, James Lafferty) – Movie Review

John Hawkes stars as alcoholic ex-cop Mike Kendall, who finds the body of a young woman and puts his family in danger when he becomes hell-bent on finding the killer. The trail leads to a […]

Oct, 10

Blue Steel ** (1989, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown, Elizabeth Peña, Louise Fletcher, Philip Bosco, Kevin Dunn, Richard Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 6040

Jamie Lee Curtis gives one of her most captivating performances as a tough rookie cop in co-writer/ director Kathryn Bigelow’s powerful 1989 action crime thriller. NYPD officer Megan Turner (Curtis) falls in love with the […]

Sep, 24

The Brain [Vengeance] [A Dead Man Seeks His Murderer] ** (1962, Anne Heywood, Peter van Eyck, Cecil Parker, Bernard Lee, Jeremy Spenser, Maxine Audley) – Classic Movie Review 5608

The Brain belongs to a dead tycoon, though surgeons keep it going and it compels one of them, Dr Peter Corrie (Peter van Eyck), to track the tycoon’s killer for Vengeance, as A Dead Man […]

Jun, 14

Born to Kill **** (1947, Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak) – Classic Movie Review 5253

Welcome to the tale of the SILKEN SAVAGE and the BULLET-MAN, ‘the coolest killer a woman ever loved’! Director Robert Wise’s 1947 film noir stars Lawrence Tierney as killer Sam Wilde, who in Reno weds […]

Apr, 04

The Glass Key **** (1935, George Raft, Claire Dodd, Edward Arnold) – Classic Movie Review 4928

Frank Tuttle’s 1935 crime mystery film The Glass Key is the excellent first movie of the 1931 Dashiell Hammett classic thriller novel, with its stars George Raft and Claire Dodd ideally paired.  ‘He asks no […]

Jan, 23

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