Derek Winnert

No Way to Treat a Lady **** (1968, Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal) – Classic Movie Review 2734

Lee Remick plays Kate Palmer, Segal’s bewildered gentile girlfriend, who unfortunately attracts a serial killer (Rod Steiger)’s evil attentions, in director Jack Smight’s tense, clever and extremely creepy 1968 black comedy thriller. Remick had everything […]

Jul, 24 · in Reviews

Buffy the Vampire Slayer ** (1992, Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, Paul Reubens, Rutger Hauer, Luke Perry) – Classic Movie Review 2733

Director Fran Rubel Kuzui’s fondly recalled 1992 fantasy action comedy Buffy the Vampire Slayer has a great cast, is written by cult name Joss Whedon and spawned the long-running hit TV series (1997–2003) that he […]

Jul, 23 · in Reviews

13 Minutes [Elser] *** (2015, Christian Friedel, Katharina Schüttler, Burghart Klaußner) – Movie Review

Director Oliver Hirschbiegel’s terrifying biopic of German radical Georg Elser is painstaking but incredibly painful to watch as most of the film consists of his torture by the Nazis. This is a true horror movie. It’s […]

Jul, 23

5 Flights Up [Ruth & Alex] *** (2014, Diane Keaton, Morgan Freeman, Cynthia Nixon) – Movie Review

Funny and charming – Diane Keaton and Morgan Freeman seem made for each other and share a twinkling screen magic. Cynthia Nixon scores too as their realtor. Diane Keaton and Morgan Freeman play Ruth & […]

Jul, 23

Maggie ** (2015, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Abigail Breslin, Joely Richardson) – Movie Review

Arnold Schwarzenegger enjoys a chance to do some proper acting and show his caring side as Wade Vogel, the dad of American Midwest teenager Maggie (Abigail Breslin), who becomes infected by an outbreak of a plague […]

Jul, 23

The Legend of Barney Thomson ** (2015, Robert Carlyle, Emma Thompson, Ray Winstone, Martin Compston, Tom Courtenay, Ashley Jensen, James Cosmo) – Movie Review

In his directing debut, Robert Carlyle is struggling both as actor and director as Barney Thomson, a boring Glasgow barber who reluctantly finds he becomes a serial killer. Carlyle’s odd mix of kindly and terrifying gets a thorough […]

Jul, 23

Southpaw *** (2015, Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, Forest Whitaker, Oona Laurence, 10 Cent, Naomie Harris, Miguel Gomez, Beau Knapp) – Movie Review

Jake Gyllenhaal lost 30lb to play his role in last year’s outstanding Nightcrawler, and now he’s added 45lb of muscle to play boxer Billy Hope in director Antoine Fuqua’s boxing movie. Jake spent six hours a […]

Jul, 23

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