Derek Winnert

Ready Player One *** (2018, Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Mark Rylance) – Movie Review

Steven Spielberg takes a fairly weak screen story and bashes all hell into it to make it a spectacular looking CGI-led flashy virtual reality movie, set in 2045, when the virtual world seems better than […]

Mar, 30 · in Reviews

Love, Simon **** (2018, Nick Robinson, Jennifer Garner, Josh Duhamel) – Movie Review

‘Dear Moviegoers, Please form a line at concessions. It doesn’t have to be straight. Love, Simon.’ Here’s to you, Mr Robinson. Can a whole movie hang on its hero’s smile and charm? Yes, apparently it can. Nick […]

Mar, 30 · in Reviews

Orders to Kill **** (1958, Paul Massie, Irene Worth, James Robertson Justice, Leslie French, Eddie Albert, Lillian Gish, John Crawford, Lionel Jeffries, Sandra Dorne) – Classic Movie Review 6870

The 1958 British thriller Orders to Kill is a powerful and persuasive wartime moral dilemma film. Paul Massie stars as an American agent parachuted into France in World War Two with orders to kill a […]

Mar, 30

Crescendo * (1970, Stefanie Powers, James Olson, Margaretta Scott) – Classic Movie Review 6869

Director Alan Gibson’s mediocre 1969 Hammer horror stars Stefanie Powers as Susan Roberts, a brisk and capable US research graduate, who sets off for southern France to seek out a decidedly odd family to do […]

Mar, 29

A Wrinkle in Time * (2018, Storm Reid, Levi Miller, Deric McCabe, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Chris Pine) – Movie Review

Director Ava DuVernay’s Disney kids and early-teen movie for easily entertained girls is embarrassingly awful, with a shamelessly manipulative and sentimental screenplay by Jennifer Lee and Jeff Stockwell, based upon the novel by Madeleine L’Engle. It plays like a […]

Mar, 29

Have a Nice Day [Hao jile] [Dashijie] **** (2017, voices of Changlong Zhu, Kai Cao, Jian Liu) – Movie Review

I have good news! Writer director Jian Liu’s dark and brutal noir animation film 2017 Have a Nice Day [Hao jile] is brilliantly smart and stylish. In his simple but complicated story set in a […]

Mar, 29

The Old Dark House * (1963, Tom Poston, Janette Scott, Robert Morley, Joyce Grenfell, Mervyn Johns, Fenella Fielding, Peter Bull, Danny Green) – Classic Movie Review 6868

Universal Studios lost the rights to the original J B Priestley story in 1957 and director James Whale’s brilliant 1932 old dark comedy chiller The Old Dark House was duly remade by director William Castle in 1962 for […]

Mar, 29

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