Derek Winnert

Cronos ***½ (1993, Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook) – Classic Movie Review 2005

Guillermo del Toro’s eerie, imaginative and atmospheric 1993 Mexican horror movie centres on an extraordinary, mysterious mechanism encapsulated into a small, bug-like golden device, designed and built by an alchemist in 1535 to provide its […]

Dec, 28 · in Reviews

Mimic 2 **½ (2001, Alix Koromzay, Bruno Campos, Will Estes) – Classic Movie Review 2004

Formulaic but quite creepy and atmospheric 2001 direct-to-DVD sequel to the 1997 chiller hit with none of the original stars. A New York police detective named Det. Klaski (Bruno Campos) suspects that a high school […]

Dec, 28 · in Reviews

Mimic **** (1997, Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Alexander Goodwin, Charles S Dutton, Josh Brolin) – Classic Movie Review 2003

Co-writer/director Guillermo del Toro’s exciting 1997 horror movie stars Mira Sorvino as scientist/entomologist Dr Susan Tyler, who genetically creates and conjures up a new breed of insect to destroy killer cockroaches that carry a virulent […]

Dec, 28

*batteries not included **** (1987, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Elizabeth Peña, Frank McRae) – Classic Movie Review 2002

Co-writer/director Matthew Robbins’s thoughtful, likeable and appealing, 1987 sci-fi comedy drama stars veteran married couple Hume Cronyn (aged 76) and Jessica Tandy (aged 78) as beleaguered New York City old-timers, diner owner Frank Riley and […]

Dec, 28

Aliens in the Attic *** (2009, Carter Jenkins, Austin Butler, Ashley Tisdale, Robert Hoffman, Tim Meadows, Doris Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 2001

The nice Pearson family head for a summer holiday in Creek Landing, Michigan, but get more than they bargain for when they have TV reception trouble. The teenage son Tom (Carter Jenkins) and his sister […]

Dec, 28

Dear God *** (1996, Greg Kinnear, Laurie Metcalf, Maria Pitillo, Hector Elizondo) – Classic Movie Review 2000

It is hard to dislike director Garry Marshall’s 1996 feel-good comedy, in which Greg Kinnear stars as conman Tom Turner, who gets a job in the dead-letter department of the US Post Office, and decides […]

Dec, 24

Kinsey **** (2004, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O’Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Lynn Redgrave, Timothy Hutton, John Lithgow, Tim Curry, Oliver Platt) – Classic Movie Review 1,999

Writer-director Bill Condon’s 2004 American biographical drama film Kinsey stars Liam Neeson, who gives a sterling performance as US academic and sex scientist Dr Alfred Kinsey, who became America’s most notorious man through his pioneering studies […]

Dec, 24

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