Derek Winnert

A Shock to the System **** (1990, Michael Caine, Elizabeth McGovern, Peter Riegert, John McMartin, Swoosie Kurtz, Will Patton) – Classic Movie Review 3991

Director Jan Egleson’s teasing 1990 Manhattan-set yuppie thriller, based on the 1984 novel by British writer Simon Brett, gives Michael Caine an ideal role as Graham Marshall, a Madison Avenue advertising executive who finds that murder […]

Jul, 08 · in Uncategorized

The Legend of Tarzan ** (2016, Alexander Skarsgård, Margot Robbie, Samuel L Jackson, Christoph Waltz, Djimon Hounsou, Simon Russell Beale, Jim Broadbent, Rory J Saper, Christian Stevens) – Movie Review

If you’re going to remake Tarzan you’d better have a good reason, a good story, a good production and a good film. By and largely the disappointing The Legend of Tarzan fails on all four counts. Harry […]

Jul, 07 · in Uncategorized

Critters ** (1986, Dee Wallace Stone, Billy Green Bush, M Emmet Walsh, Scott Grimes, Billy Zane, Terrence Mann, Don Keith Opper, Ethan Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 3990

Nasty little killer fur-ball aliens, fleeing from an inter-galactic jail pursued by two shape-shifting extra-terrestrial bounty hunters, invade Dee Wallace Stone’s Kansas farm in co-writer/ director Stephen Herek’s engagingly infantile 1986 Gremlins-style sci-fi horror comedy. […]

Jul, 07

Critters 4 ** (1992, Don Keith Opper, Terrence Mann, Brad Dourif, Paul Whitthorne, Angela Bassett) – Classic Movie Review 3989

Director Rupert Harvey’s 1992 final chapter of the Critters saga stars Don Keith Opper, Terrence Mann, with Brad Dourif, Paul Whitthorne and Angela Bassett. It is set in 2045. The extra-terrestrial hairballs with dentures bounce back to […]

Jul, 07

Critters 3 *** (1991, Aimee Brooks, John Calvin, Katherine Cortez, Leonardo DiCaprio, Geoffrey Blake, Diana Bellamy, Don Opper, Terrence Mann) – Classic Movie Review 3988

The extra-terrestrial hairballs with dentures bounce back to assault an LA housing complex in director Kristine Peterson’s 1991 sci-fi thriller. It stars Aimee Brooks, John Calvin, Katherine Cortez, Geoffrey Blake and Diana Bellamy. Don Opper […]

Jul, 07

Beginning of the End * (1957, Peggie Castle, Peter Graves, Morris Ankrum) – Classic Movie Review 3984

Producer-director Bert I Gordon’s dull, cheap and extremely silly 1957 Republic Studios black and white sci-fi monster movie stars Peggie Castle as enterprising journalist Audrey Aimes, Peter Graves as Dr Ed Wainwright and Morris Ankrum as […]

Jul, 06

Now You See Me 2 ** (2016, Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Lizzy Caplan, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman) – Movie Review

Director Jon M Chu’s slick and handsomely produced 2016 caper thriller sequel offers similar tasty ingredients to the original 2103 Now You See Me: flashy sleight of hand, a first-rate cast and an ingenious if unsatisfying plot. The game […]

Jul, 06

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