Derek Winnert

Creepy ***½ (2016, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yûko Takeuchi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Masahiro Higashide, Toru Baba) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 2016 Japanese serial killer thriller film Creepy is just that – creepy! Teruyuki Kagawa plays the creep Nishino, the distinctly oddball new neighbour of the former Tokyo police detective Takakura (Hidetoshi Nishijima), who has […]

Nov, 18 · in Reviews

United States of Love [Zjednoczone stany milosci] **** (2016, Julia Kijowska, Magdalena Cielecka, Dorota Kolak, Marta Nieradkiewicz) – Movie Review

The 36-year-old Polish writer-director Tomasz Wasilewski (Floating Skyscrapers) delivers a devastating punch to the gut in this amazingly accomplished and desperately disturbing drama set in Poland in 1990, the first year of the country’s freedom. […]

Nov, 17 · in Reviews

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them **** (2016, Eddie Redmayne, Dan Fogler, Colin Farrell, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Jon Voight, Ezra Miller) – Movie Review

And so J.K. Rowling invites you to a new era of the wizarding world in the first film of a new five-film franchise, a very easy-to-like spinoff prequel to Harry Potter, set in 1926. It marks […]

Nov, 17

Bye Bye Birdie **** (1963, Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, Ann-Margret, Paul Lynde, Maureen Stapleton, Bobby Rydell, Jesse Pearson) – Classic Movie Review 4,661

The 1963 musical Bye Bye Birdie stars Dick Van Dyke and Ann-Margret in a most enjoyable film of composer Charles Strouse’s Broadway hit show about the last TV appearance of a rock ‘n’ roll star […]

Nov, 16

Half a Sixpence *** (1967, Tommy Steele, Julia Foster, Cyril Ritchard, Penelope Horner) – Classic Movie Review 4660

The H G Wells’s 1905 novel Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul was filmed in 1941 by director Carol Reed as Kipps. Much later in 1963, it became the stage show Half a Sixpence in London’s West […]

Nov, 16

King Kong Lives * (1986, Brian Kerwin, Linda Hamilton, John Ashton) – Classic Movie Review 4659

In director John Guillermin’s unloved and unwanted 1986 sequel to his 1976 King Kong remake, the great ape Kong (Peter Elliott) is resuscitated after falling off the World Trade Center tower and falling into a coma […]

Nov, 16

The Son of Kong *** (1933, Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack, Frank Reicher, John Marston, Victor Wong, Lee Kohlmar, Ed Brady) – Classic Movie Review 4658

‘SEE! The cannibals! The earthquake! The sea serpent! The fighting monsters of ages past!’ It is irresistible, isn’t it? Probably the first monster movie sequel, it starts by announcing itself as ‘a serio-comic phantasy’. Producer Merian […]

Nov, 15

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