Derek Winnert

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Hidden Agenda **** (1990, Frances McDormand, Brian Cox, Brad Dourif, Mai Zetterling, Jim Norton) – Classic Movie Review 4,147

Ken Loach’s distinguished, controversial 1990 political thriller Hidden Agenda stars Brian Cox as a tough police detective investigating the murder of an American human rights lawyer in Belfast, with the help of the man’s girlfriend […]

Aug, 09

Child’s Play ***½ (1988, Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, Brad Dourif, Dinah Manoff) – Classic Movie Review 4144

Co-writer/ director Tom Holland’s disturbing, highly effective 1988 fantasy horror movie Child’s Play sees Brad Dourif as the dying serial killer Charles Lee Ray who gives his soul to Chucky the doll, a seemingly innocent […]

Aug, 08

Eyes of Laura Mars ** (1978, Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Dourif, Raul Julia, René Auberjonois, Lisa Taylor, Darlanne Fluegel) – Classic Movie Review 4141

Director Irvin Kershner’s trashy 1978 occult psycho-chiller Eyes of Laura Mars is frankly incredible and distasteful and has a particularly nasty tone. It is packed with irritating red herrings and climaxes with an unconvincing twist […]

Aug, 08

Witness ***** (1985, Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lukas Haas, Josef Sommer, Jan Rubes, Alexander Godunov, Danny Glover) – Classic Movie Review 4130

Director Peter Weir’s tense, exciting and perceptive 1985 thinking person’s thriller stars Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis on their finest form, responding strongly to their roundly written roles as Philadelphia city cop John Book and […]

Aug, 04

Desperate Living *** (1977, Mink Stole, Liz Renay, Susan Lowe, Edith Massey, Mary Vivian Pearce) – Classic Movie Review 4100

John Waters’s 1977 gross-out bad taste comedy stars Mink Stole as desperately unhappy, crazy rich housewife Peggy Gravel who smothers her hubby to death, helped by her enormously tubby maid Grizelda Brown (Jean Hill), who […]

Jul, 30

Wolfen *** (1981, Albert Finney, Diane Venora, Edward James Olmos) – Classic Movie Review 4095

Co-writer/ director Michael Wadleigh’s 1981 modern-Gothic horror thriller stars Albert Finney as Dewey Wilson, a New York city cop who investigates a bizarre chain of brutal murders, where it seems the victims were killed by animals. But he […]

Jul, 28

Willard **** (1971, Bruce Davison, Ernest Borgnine, Sondra Locke, Elsa Lanchester) – Classic Movie Review 4090

Director Daniel Mann’s 1971 horror thriller Willard is particularly effective little chiller about a psychotic teenager, starring Bruce Davison as Willard Stiles, who trains a pair of rats called Ben and Socrates for revenge on […]

Jul, 27

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