Derek Winnert

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials *** (2015, Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Ki Hong Lee, Aidan Gillen, Patricia Clarkson) – Movie Review

In part two of The Maze Runner saga, the survivors of the Maze face a new impossible odds and obstacles on a desolate, post-apocalypse urban landscape as they are relentlessly pursued by Janson (Aidan Gillen), […]

Sep, 10 · in Reviews

The Visit * (2015, Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie, Kathryn Hahn) – Movie Review

Single mother Kathryn Hahn packs her two young kids Becca and Tyler off to stay with their weird, never-before-seen grandparents, Nana (Deanna Dunagan) and Pop Pop (Peter McRobbie), and some very odd stuff happens in writer-director M […]

Sep, 10 · in Reviews

Legend *** (2015, Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, Taron Egerton) – Movie Review

Legend offers Tom Hardy an eagerly and exuberantly taken chance for a bravura star turn in twin roles as 1960s identical twin East End gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray (‘We’re talking about being gangsters, that’s […]

Sep, 09

Irrational Man *** (2015, Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Parker Posey, Jamie Blackley) – Movie Review

  Woody Allen without the laughs, anybody? Joaquin Phoenix stars as Abe, a depressive, super-brainy, middle-aged philosophy professor who ironically finds the fresh will to live and a new zest for life when he commits murder. It’s […]

Sep, 09

Burke and Hare ** (1972, Derren Nesbitt, Harry Andrews, Glynn Edwards, Yootha Joyce, Robin Hawdon, Yutte Stensgaard) – Classic Movie Review 2896

Director Vernon Sewell’s macabre 1972 British horror movie stars Derren Nesbitt and Glynn Edwards as the real-life early 19th-century Irish grave-robbers turned murderers, Burke and Hare. Gruesomely, they are famous for going into business to supply […]

Sep, 09

Fear in the Night ** (1972, Judy Geeson, Ralph Bates, Peter Cushing, Joan Collins, James Cossins) – Classic Movie Review 2895

A strong cast bolsters co-writer/ director Jimmy Sangster’s sporadically frightening and sometimes inventive 1972 Hammer Films shocker. Judy Geeson stars as a nervy young woman recovering from a nervous breakdown who is terrorised by strange […]

Sep, 08

Taste of Fear [Scream of Fear] **** (1961, Susan Strasberg, Ann Todd, Ronald Lewis, Christopher Lee, Leonard Sachs) – Classic Movie Review 2894

Director Seth Holt’s 1961 British horror thriller stars Susan Strasberg as Penny Appleby, a wheelchair-confined young socialite who insists that she keeps seeing her father’s dead body when she returns to his estate after ten years. […]

Sep, 08

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