Derek Winnert

Shaun the Sheep Movie **** (2015) – Movie Review

Try and hard as you like, it’s impossible to resist this incredibly sweet, charming, inventive and amusing stop-motion animated caper from Nick Park and the guys at Aardman Animations, of Wallace & Gromit and Chicken […]

Feb, 04 · in Reviews

Monkey Business ***** (1931, Marx Brothers, Thelma Todd, Ruth Hall) – Classic Movie Review 2156

Director Norman Z McLeod’s expert and delirious 1931 comedy stars the riotous four Marx Brothers, who are on or near their best form in their hectic and often hilarious third film. It comes close to […]

Feb, 04 · in Reviews

Monkey Business ***** (1952, Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe) – Classic Movie Review 2157

The brilliant 1952 screwball comedy Monkey Business stars Cary Grant as an absent-minded Professor developing an elixir of youth. Marilyn Monroe emerges gracefully from funny jokes at her expense – ’anyone can type’, ‘half child […]

Feb, 04

Monkeybone ***½ (2001, Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, Chris Kattan, Rose McGowan, Dave Foley, Megan Mullally, voice of John Turturro) – Classic Movie Review 2155

Director Henry Selick’s 2001 comedy stars an ideally cast Brendan Fraser, who greatly amuses as Stu Miley, a carefree cartoonist who is involved in a freak accident. Then he becomes trapped in a nightmarish world, […]

Feb, 04

Cherry Falls **½ (2000, Brittany Murphy, Michael Biehn, Jay Mohr, Jesse Bradford, Gabriel Mann) – Classic Movie Review 2154

I know what the teens of Horror High did last summer. They held an orgy to get rid of their virginity so that they would survive a psychotic serial killer of virgins. This daft idea is […]

Feb, 03

Trauma *½ (2004, Colin Firth, Mena Suvari, Kenneth Cranham, Naomie Harris, Dorothy Duffy) – Classic Movie Review 2153

Director Marc Evans’s 2004 thriller stars Colin Firth as Ben, who wakes up from a coma after a car crash to find that his wife is dead, and he starts hallucinating. A few weeks later, […]

Feb, 03

A Simple Plan **** (1998, Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Bridget Fonda, Brent Briscoe) – Classic Movie Review 2152

Director Sam Raimi’s 1998 real-life thriller deservedly earned good reviews but alas didn’t do that well at the box office. Two brothers and a redneck buddy find a bag with a load of Mob money […]

Feb, 03

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