Derek Winnert

Now Is Good **½ (2012, Dakota Fanning, Jeremy Irvine, Paddy Considine, Olivia Williams, Kaya Scodelario, Joe Cole, Josef Altin) – Movie Review

Smart but sickly romance, with Dakota Fanning as Tessa Scott, a girl with leukaemia who compiles a list of things she’d like to do before dying, including losing her virginity. Fortunately, along comes that handy […]

Nov, 06 · in Uncategorized

A Christmas Star *½ (2015, Rob James-Collier, Erin Galway-Kendrick, Bronagh Waugh, Richard Clements, Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson) – Movie Review

Richard Elson’s 2015 family film is a slice of good natured seasonal Irish blarney, in which Erin Galway-Kendrick stars as young Noelle, who believes she has the gift to perform miracles. She was born under the […]

Nov, 06 · in Uncategorized

Kill Your Friends **½ (2015, Nicholas Hoult, Craig Roberts, Tom Riley, Georgia King, James Corden, Jim Piddock) – Movie Review

Director Owen Harris’s British pitch-dark comedy crime-thriller film overall must be judged a missed opportunity and a misfire. But it comes out firing on all barrels and certainly has its attractions and laughs. Alas, there are […]

Nov, 05

Brooklyn **** (2015, Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters) – Movie Review

Saoirse Ronan stars as Ellis, a bright young Irish immigrant who arrives in 1950s Brooklyn. She hoves up at old Mrs Julie Walters’s boarding house, gets a department store job and, though initially homesick, soon […]

Nov, 05

The Devils **** (1971, Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian, Gemma Jones, Murray Melvin, Georgina Hale) – Classic Movie Review 3032

Vanessa Redgrave stars in Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971) as a sexually repressed hunchback nun so obsessed with a priest (Oliver Reed) that she accuses him of witchcraft and says he has possessed her.  Writer-producer-director […]

Nov, 03

Holes **** (2003, Shia LaBoeuf, Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Tim Blake Nelson, Henry Winkler, Dulé Hill, Patricia Arquette) – Classic Movie Review 3031

Director Andrew Davis’s 2003 Disney drama stars Shia LaBoeuf as a wrongfully convicted boy thief called Stanley, who is sent to a brutal young offenders’ detention camp, where the warden (Sigourney Weaver), the deputy by […]

Nov, 03

Disturbia *** (2007, Shia LaBeouf, David Morse, Carrie-Anne Moss, Sarah Roemer, Aaron Yoo) – Classic Movie Review 3030

Shia LaBeouf stars as a teenager living under house arrest who becomes convinced his creepy neighbour (David Morse) is a serial killer in director D J Caruso’s involving and suspenseful Rear Window-style thriller. Kale Brecht (LaBeouf) […]

Nov, 03

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