Derek Winnert

Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House ** (2002, French Stewart, Mike Weinberg, Clare Carey, Jason Beghe, Erick Avari, Missi Pyle, Joanna Going) – Classic Movie Review 2860

In director Rod Daniel’s perhaps unwanted 2002 third sequel, it is the turn of Michael ‘Mike’ Weinberg to play Kevin McCallister, who is staying Home Alone again. And once more of course robbers attack the […]

Aug, 29 · in Articles

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York *** (1992, Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O’Hara, John Heard) – Classic Movie Review 2,858

The 1992 sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York re-assembles the whole hit original 1990 team for Macaulay Culkin’s re-match with bumbling baddies Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern. Director Chris Columbus’s hastily concocted 1992 […]

Aug, 29 · in Reviews

No Escape *** (2015, Owen Wilson, Lake Bell, Pierce Brosnan) – Movie Review

Co-writer/director John Erick Dowdle’s No Escape is an ultra-tense, exciting white-knuckle ride. Owen Wilson is great in a straight role as the distraught, demented dad determined not to die. Owen Wilson and Lake Bell star […]

Aug, 28

Barely Lethal ** (2015, Hailee Steinfeld, Jaime King, Samuel L Jackson, Toby Sebastian, Thomas Mann, Jessica Alba, Rachael Harris) – Movie Review

Hailee Steinfeld (18) stars as teenage special ops agent Megan Walsh, who is training to be an international assassin for Hardman (Samuel L Jackson). But, wanting a normal life, Megan bails out of a mission and […]

Aug, 28

The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires ** (1974, Peter Cushing, David Chiang, Julie Ege, Shih Szu, John Forbes-Robertson, Robin Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 2,857

The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974) is a tolerable experience, but the mix of British Hammer horror and Hong Kong’s kung fu is uneasy, to say the least. And so is poor old […]

Aug, 28

Dracula AD 1972 ** (1972, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham, Marsha Hunt, Christopher Neame, Caroline Munro, Michael Coles) – Classic Movie Review 2,856

Hammer Films’ misguided and lame-brained effort to modernise the Dracula tale to the supposedly still swinging London of the early Seventies fails on nearly every count. The 1972 British horror film Dracula AD 1972 is […]

Aug, 28

The Satanic Rites of Dracula ** (1973, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Michael Coles, William Franklyn, Freddie Jones, Joanna Lumley) – Classic Movie Review 2,855

After the flop of Dracula AD 1972, Hammer Films try for another misguided update of the Dracula legend, and flop all over again in the eighth film in their Dracula series. The final Hammer film […]

Aug, 28

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