Derek Winnert

Nowhere Boy **** (2009, Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Anne-Marie Duff, Thomas Sangster, David Threlfall, Josh Bolt, Ophelia Lovibond) – Classic Movie Review 4419

Aaron Johnson (from 2008’s Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging) captures the young John Lennon perfectly in director Sam Taylor-Wood’s inspired 2009 early-years biopic that reveals him as a troubled bunny.   Lennon is shown as desperately […]

Sep, 26 · in Reviews

Where the Wild Things Are ***½ (2009, voices Max Records, James Gandolfini, Catherine O’Hara, Forest Whitaker, Catherine Keener, Mark Ruffalo, Paul Dano) – Classic Movie Review 4418

Maurice Sendak’s tiny classic children’s story – it has only 338 words, giving a film adaptation quite a headache – becomes a lovely, quite gorgeous-looking looking but hugely overblown 2009 movie – thanks to the […]

Sep, 26 · in Uncategorized

Bolt **** (2008, voices John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Malcolm McDowell, Susie Essman, Mark Walton) – Classic Movie Review 4417

Oscar-nominated as 2009 Best Animated Feature Film of the Year, this delightful Disney/Pixar animated comedy adventure stars the voice of John Travolta as Bolt, an American white shepherd dog. Bolt is the ordinary, everyday canine […]

Sep, 26

The Stepfather *** (2009, Penn Badgley, Dylan Walsh, Sela Ward, Amber Heard) – Classic Movie Review 4,416

The 2009 American psychological horror film remake The Stepfather stars Dylan Walsh as a scary schizo serial killer who sets up home with fatherless families, and then slaughters the lot. Director Nelson McCormick’s 2009 American psychological […]

Sep, 26

The Gamma People ** (1956, Paul Douglas, Eva Bartok, Leslie Phillips, Walter Rilla) – Classic Movie Review 4415

John Gilling’s interesting and elaborate 1956 British sci-fi movie The Gamma People stars Walter Rilla as crazy scientist Boronski, who is attempting to create a stream of brilliant children by blasting them with gamma rays. […]

Sep, 26

Warlock III: The End of Innocence * (1999, Bruce Payne, Ashley Laurence, Paul Francis, Angel Boris) – Classic Movie Review 4414

Co-writer/ director Eric Freiser’s unwelcome 1999 second sequel to the 1989 chiller Warlock and its 1993 follow-up Warlock: The Armageddon is an ineptly and incompetently handled let-down. It regurgitates the haunted house chiller clichés to […]

Sep, 26

Warlock: The Armageddon * (1993, Julian Sands, Chris Young, Paula Marshall, Joanna Pacula, R G Armstrong, Nicole Mercurio, Zach Galligan) – Classic Movie Review 4413

Warlock: The Armageddon? Armageddonoutofhere! The good news is that Julian Sands returns as The Warlock, but Anthony Hickox’s 1993 supernatural horror film sequel to the exciting 1989 chiller Warlock is a huge comedown and a […]

Sep, 26

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