Derek Winnert

Mum & Dad **½ (2008, Perry Benson, Dido Miles, Olga Fedori, Ainsley Howard) – Classic Movie Review 4624

Writer-director Steven Sheil’s 2008 low-budget British horror thriller film is well made and resourceful but deeply unpleasant. It starts with young Polish Heathrow Airport office cleaner Lena (Olga Fedori) accompanying an apparently friendly co-worker called […]

Nov, 10 · in Uncategorized

In the Electric Mist *** (2009, Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter Sarsgaard, Mary Steenburgen, Kelly Macdonald, Justina Machado, Ned Beatty, James Gammon) – Classic Movie Review 4624

Tommy Lee Jones is at his excellent haunted best in a tailor-made role as Dave Robicheaux, a Louisiana cop who finds a connection between the New Orleans murder of a prostitute and the discovery of […]

Nov, 09 · in Uncategorized

Frankenstein *** (2004, Parker Posey, Vincent Perez, Adam Goldberg, Thomas Kretschmann, Michael Madsen) – Classic Movie Review 4623

Director Marcus Nispel’s stylish, well-acted and engrossing 2004 contemporary horror thriller, set in present-day America, is based on a concept by Dean R Koontz and written by John Shiban, inspired by Mary Shelley’s famous tale. Parker Posey and Adam […]

Nov, 09

Francofonia ***½ (2015, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Benjamin Utzerath, Vincent Nemeth, Johanna Korthals Altes, Aleksandr Sokurov) – Movie Review

Russian writer-director Aleksandr Sokurov’s self-consciously eccentric 2015 mix of documentary and drama is provocative and fascinating. Sometimes, it is well worth trying something out of your usual comfort zone. Sokurov fills the screen with some great ideas […]

Nov, 09

A Hundred Streets [100 Streets] *** (2016, Idris Elba, Gemma Arterton, Ken Stott, Tom Cullen, Franz Drameh) – Movie Review

Idris Elba and Gemma Arterton star as a warring separated London married couple in the main one of three inter-connecting stories lived out within a hundred London streets. Director Jim O’Hanlon’s likeable multi-drama is strongly cast […]

Nov, 09

Seven Pounds **** (2008, Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Michael Ealy, Barry Pepper, Elpidia Carrillo) – Classic Movie Review 4622

Will Smith plays Ben Thomas, a tax investigator – or actually does he? – in this beautifully crafted, luxurious 2008 epic weepie from Italian romantic expert Gabriele Muccino, the director of Smith’s 2006 hit The […]

Nov, 09

The Spirit *** (2008, Gabriel Macht, Samuel L Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes, Paz Vega, Jaime King) – Classic Movie Review 4621

The mastermind behind Sin City and 300, director Frank Miller, lavishly splashes his incredible, eye-catching visual style all over this astonishing 2008 comic book movie, based on the legendary comic book series created by Will […]

Nov, 09

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