Derek Winnert

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The Strangers: Prey at Night ** (2018, Christina Hendricks, Bailee Madison, Martin Henderson, Lewis Pullman) – Movie Review

Johannes Roberts’s pretty scary, pretty nasty, pretty average slasher horror movie sequel is an homage/ ripoff throwback to the Seventies/ Eighties classics, and is deeply indebted to Halloween and Friday the 13th. Once it gets […]

May, 08

Here Come the Huggetts *** (1948, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison Jane Hylton, Susan Shaw, Petula Clark, Jimmy Hanley, David Tomlinson, Diana Dors) – Classic Movie Review 6977

Here Come the Huggetts is the movie return of the Huggett family, first on screen in Holiday Camp (1947), and this time they are having their first phone installed, while dad is busy with his job as a factory foreman […]

Apr, 29

Piranha Part Two: The Spawning [Piranha II: The Spawning] ** (1981, Tricia O’Neil, Steve Marachuk, Lance Henriksen) – Classic Movie Review 6951

Jeff Schechtman, the co-producer of Piranha (1978), went on to produce a troubled sequel, Piranha Part Two: The Spawning [Piranha II: The Spawning], in 1981, directed by James Cameron no less. It stars Tricia O’Neil […]

Apr, 20

Grease 2 ** (1982, Maxwell Caulfield, Michelle Pfeiffer, Adrian Zmed, Lorna Luft, Eve Arden, Sid Caesar, Connie Stevens, Tab Hunter, Joan Blondell) – Classic Movie Review 6946

The 1978 blockbuster musical hit Grease is followed by director Patricia Birch’s ill-fated Grease 2 in 1982 with Maxwell Caulfield and Michelle Pfeiffer. A few cast members from the original movie such as Dody Goodman, Sid […]

Apr, 19

Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol * (1987, Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, G W Bailey, Bubba Smith, George Gaynes, Michael Winslow, David Graf, Sharon Stone) – Classic Movie Review 6944

Director Jim Drake’s 1987 comedy Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol again stars the amiable and talented but luckless Steve Guttenberg, who is back as Mahoney for his final fling before graduating for ever from the […]

Apr, 18

The Return of Dr Mabuse [Im Stahlnetz des Dr Mabuse] *** (1961, Gert Fröbe, Daliah Lavi, Lex Barker, Wolfgang Preiss) – Classic Movie Review 6942

Director Harald Reinl’s 1961 black-and-white crime thriller The Return of Dr Mabuse [Im Stahlnetz des Dr Mabuse], made in West Berlin, follows Fritz Lang’s The 1,000 Eyes of Dr Mabuse [Die 1000 Augen des Dr Mabuse] (1960) as the […]

Apr, 18

Steptoe and Son Ride Again ** (1973, Wilfrid Brambell Harry H Corbett, Diana Dors, Milo O’Shea, Yootha Joyce, Neil McCarthy, Bill Maynard) – Classic Movie Review 6880

With the 1972 spin-off film Steptoe and Son of the BBC’s series such a profitable hit, EMI re-teamed the quarrelling father and son rag-and-bone junk yard men in director Peter Sykes’s 1973 sequel with a new […]

Apr, 03

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