Derek Winnert

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Caged Heat *** (1974, Juanita Brown, Erica Gavin, Roberta Collins, Barbara Steele) – Classic Movie Review 5361

Writer-director Jonathan Demme makes his impressive and inventive film début in 1974 with this women-in-prison exploitation movie, made for producer Roger Corman. A sensationalist tale of rape, riot and revenge, it is the start of a […]

Apr, 29

Manon des Sources [Manon of the Spring] ***** (1986, Yves Montand, Emmanuelle Béart, Daniel Auteuil) – Classic Movie Review 5283

Emmanuelle Béart stars as Manon, who has grown up to be a lovely shepherdess, in director Claude Berri’s haunting, compelling 1986 climax to author Marcel Pagnol’s two-part movie saga that began with Jean de Florette. […]

Apr, 13

Frank & Lola ** (2016, Michael Shannon, Imogen Poots, Justin Long, Michael Nyqvist, Emmanuelle Devos, Rosanna Arquette) – Movie Review

Michael Shannon rivets the attention as troubled chef Frank, a fiery cauldron always about to bubble over, way out-classing Imogen Poots as his girlfriend Lola, in debut writer-director Matthew Ross’s darkly playful, teasing psycho-sexual love […]

Apr, 11

The Outfit ***** (1973, Robert Duvall, Joe Don Baker, Karen Black, Robert Ryan) – Classic Movie Review 5,278

The sweaty-palm, nerve-jangling 1973 neo noir crime thriller film The Outfit stars Robert Duvall as career criminal Earl Macklin, based on novelist Donald E Westlake’s character Parker. Joe Don Baker plays a friendly heavy called […]

Apr, 10

Act of Violence **** (1949, Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Phyllis Thaxter) – Classic Movie Review 5277

Director Fred Zinnemann’s 1949 film noir thriller provides suspense and atmosphere galore as the embittered, vengeful former wartime prisoner-of-war Joe Parkson (Robert Ryan) hunts his former commanding officer, POW traitor Frank Enley (Van Heflin), who […]

Apr, 10

The Phantom of the Opera ** (1983, Maximilian Schell, Jane Seymour, Michael York, Jeremy Kemp, Diana Quick) – Classic Movie Review 5102

Maximilian Schell makes a fair job of The Phantom in director Robert Markowitz’s sumptuous, fast moving and well-cast 1983 TV movie remake, attractively filmed in Hungary. This tolerable but not special film makes no special […]

Mar, 05

How to Make a Monster ** (1958, Robert H Harris, Paul Brinegar, Gary Conway, Gary Clarke, John Ashley) – Classic Movie Review 4998

‘Werewolf, meet Frankenstein. Shake hands and come out snarling.’ Director Herbert L Strock’s amusing, odd and fairly inventive 1958 horror movie stars Robert H Harris, Paul Brinegar, Gary Conway as Tony Mantell (Teenage Frankenstein) and Gary […]

Feb, 05

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