Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Stigmata *** (1999, Patricia Arquette, Gabriel Byrne, Jonathan Pryce, Nia Long) – Classic Movie Review 4156

Something wicked this way comes. Vatican official Jonathan Pryce sends troubled scientist-priest Gabriel Byrne to Pittsburgh to investigate the case of a young hairdresser (Patricia Arquette), who suffers agonising paranormal attacks, causing her to bleed […]

Aug, 11 · in Reviews

The Wave [Bølgen] **** (2015, Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp, Jonas Hoff Oftebro) – Movie Review

A canny geologist (Kristoffer Joner), his tourist hotel receptionist wife (Ane Dahl Torp) and their teenage son (Jonas Hoff Oftebro) and young daughter are caught in the thick of it when the father discovers that the mountain pass […]

Aug, 11 · in Reviews

Valley of Love **** (2015, Isabelle Huppert, Gérard Depardieu, Dan Warner) – Movie Review

French cinema icons Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu star as long-divorced couple Isabelle and Gérard, legendary actors who keep a strange appointment in Death Valley, California, both separately answering letters from their photographer son Michael, which […]

Aug, 11

Nerve *** (2016, Emma Roberts, Dave Franco, Juliette Lewis, Emily Meade) – Movie Review

Emma Roberts stars as nice high school senior Vee, who finds herself reluctantly drawn into an online reality truth or dare video game called Nerve, which allows people to enlist as players or watchers. Lured by […]

Aug, 11

Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates ** (2016, Zac Efron, Adam Devine, Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza, Stephen Root, Stephanie Faracy, Alice Wetterlund, Sugar Lyn Beard, Sam Richardson) – Movie Review

Partying twenty-something airhead brothers Mike and Dave Stangle (Adam Devine, Zac Efron) are ordered by their exasperated parents (Stephen Root, Stephanie Faracy) to find nice girl dates to attend their sister Jeanie (Sugar Lyn Beard)’s wedding. […]

Aug, 11

Light of Day ** (1987, Michael J Fox, Gena Rowlands, Joan Jett, Michael McKean) – Classic Movie Review 4155

Writer-director Paul Schrader’s 1987 youth, family and music drama movie hardly saw the light of day despite its cult film-maker, a hot new star in Michael J Fox who had just hit the big time, and its […]

Aug, 10

Light Sleeper *** (1992, Willem Dafoe, Susan Sarandon, Dana Delany, David Clennon, Mary Beth Hurt, Victor Garber, David Spade, Jane Adams) – Classic Movie Review 4154

Writer-director Paul Schrader’s 1992 Breathless-style thriller stars Willem Dafoe as a reformed addict drug pusher on the edge of middle-age, having a bad time with his upscale clients. Then he gets mixed up in murder during […]

Aug, 10

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