Derek Winnert

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Tolkien *** (2019, Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Harry Gilby, Pam Ferris, Laura Donnelly, Colm Meaney) – Movie Review

Tolkien (2019) is a curate’s egg of a biographical drama film, with good scenes mixing uncomfortably with not such good ones. It stays interesting, though never fascinating, and this story of the young life of […]

May, 05

The Big Chill **** (1983, Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline) – Classic Movie Review 7659

Director Lawrence Kasdan’s 1983 comedy drama The Big Chill is a sardonic and amusing look at a band of seven former college buddies from the radical Sixties who reunite for a friend’s funeral for a […]

Oct, 10

The Group **** (1966, Candice Bergen, Joan Hackett, Elizabeth Hartman, Shirley Knight, Joanna Pettet, Jessica Walter, Kathleen Widdoes, Larry Hagman, Hal Holbrook) – Classic Movie Review 4705

Mary McCarthy’s Sixties voguish novel about the lives of eight 1933 Vassar-style Ivy-League private girls’ college graduates was one of the popular literary hits of the day and the inevitable 1966 movie version proves an […]

Nov, 26

The Descent *** (2005 Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid) – Classic Movie Review 3438

When six daredevil women go caving in America’s Appalachian mountains, they are trapped by a rockfall and then attacked by blind Gollum-style cave creatures – ‘crawlers’ – hunting by smell and sound. Working with a […]

Mar, 02

We Are Your Friends *** (2015, Zac Efron, Shiloh Fernandez, Alex Shaffer, Jonny Weston, Wes Bentley, Emily Ratajkowski) – Movie Review

Zac Efron, Shiloh Fernandez, Alex Shaffer and a brutalist shaven-headed Jonny Weston star as a quartet of 23-year-old drifters in a poor area of Hollywood (there’s a poor area of Hollywood?) who are still trying to […]

Aug, 26

Big Hero 6 **** (2014, voices of Ryan Potter, Scott Adsit, T J Miller) – Movie Review

This spectacular 2014 comedy-adventure from Walt Disney Animation Studios (Frozen, Wreck-It Ralph) is cute, funny and charming. It’s the first animated Marvel film to be released in cinemas via Walt Disney Animation Studios. Under the direction […]

Jan, 07
Wrong Turn *** (2003, Eliza Dushku, Desmond Harrington, Lindy Booth, Kevin Zegers, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jeremy Sisto, Julian Richings) – Classic Movie Review 1112

Wrong Turn *** (2003, Eliza Dushku, Desmond Harrington, Lindy Booth, Kevin Zegers, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jeremy Sisto, Julian Richings) – Classic Movie Review 1112

Director Rob Schmidt’s 2003 American slasher horror movie Wrong Turn is quite capable and stylish and packs a bit of an unpleasantly scary punch, making it stand out from the crowd. It spawned an impressive franchise, […]

Apr, 18

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