Derek Winnert

The Maze Runner *** (2014, Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Will Poulter, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Patricia Clarkson) – Movie Review

The 23-year-old TV Teen Wolf star Dylan O’Brien plays the hero Thomas, who emerges into a community of about 60 teenage boys after his memory is erased and he wakes up in an elevator. Director Wes […]

Oct, 08 · in Reviews

I Am Sam *** (2001, Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning) – Classic Movie Review 1752

Co-writer/director Jessie Nelson’s highly emotional 2001 drama showcases Sean Penn’s Oscar-nominated performance as the developmentally challenged, brain-of-seven single parent Sam, who just wants to keep custody of the seven-year-old daughter her loves, little Lucy (Dakota […]

Oct, 07 · in Reviews

Vanity Fair *** (2004, Reese Witherspoon, James Purefoy, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Rhys Ifans, Romola Garai) – Classic Movie Review 1751

Likeable and engaging, director Mira Nair’s 2004 film is a very fair if slightly uninspired stab at filming a difficult novel, plodding relentlessly through the seemingly endless and complex detail and plotlines of William Makepeace […]

Oct, 07

Johnny English *** (2003, Rowan Atkinson, John Malkovich, Natalie Imbruglia) – Classic Movie Review 1750

Rowan Atkinson plays dithering special agent Johnny English in this incredibly popular, idiotic James Bond spy spoof that has plenty of amateurish enthusiasm but little in the way of inspiration or big laughs. Based on […]

Oct, 07

Crash **** (2004, Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Thandie Newton, Matt Dillon) – Classic Movie Review 1749

  Co-writer/director Paul Haggis’s serious-minded, low-budget, triple Oscar-winning 2004 movie about race, ethnicity and religion got great reviews and kicked up a storm at the box office. On a $6,500,000 cost, it took $55million in US […]

Oct, 06

Crash *** (1996, James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas) – Classic Movie Review 1748

  Writer-director David Cronenberg’s uniquely disturbing 1996 film of J G Ballard’s probably unfilmable parable novel about people into road crashes for sexual kicks caused a furore in Britain. The right-wing forces of censorship in politics […]

Oct, 06

Spider **** (2002, Ralph Fiennes, Lynn Redgrave, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, John Neville) – Classic Movie Review 1747

Ralph Fiennes is brilliant as the mentally ill Dennis Clegg, nicknamed ‘Spider’ by his mother (Miranda Richardson). Now in his thirties, he is released after 20 years in a clinic to Lynn Redgrave’s depressingly seedy London boarding […]

Oct, 06

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