Derek Winnert

Street Fighter * (1994, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raúl Juliá, Kylie Minogue) Bad Movie 4

Writer-director Steven E. de Souza’s 1994 American action film is risibly bad without actually being funny. Based loosely on the Street Fighter video games produced by Capcom, it stars Jean-Claude Van Damme and Raúl Juliá, […]

Jul, 13 · in Reviews

Kangaroo Jack * (2003, Jerry O’Connell, Anthony Anderson, Christopher Walken) – Bad Movie 7

Director David McNally’s 2003 comedy for producer Jerry Bruckheimer is bad. In a lull in his brilliant career, Christopher Walken plays a Mob boss called Salvatore ‘Sal’ Maggio, who despatches his New York hairstylist stepson […]

Jul, 13 · in Reviews

Crossroads * (2002, Britney Spears, Zoë Saldana, Taryn Manning, Kim Cattrall, Justin Long) – Bad Movie 6

In director Tamra Davis’s 2002 drama, pop diva Britney Spears makes an unwise crossover to the movies, acting forlornly and singing to little effect as a girl at the crossroads of her life. The yarn […]

Jul, 13

John Q ** (2002, Denzel Washington) Classic Movie Review 1426

Director Nick Cassavetes’s 2002 thriller stars reliable Denzel Washington as John Quincy Archibald, a father and husband whose young son Michael (Daniel E. Smith) is diagnosed with an enlarged heart after he collapses at his baseball […]

Jul, 13

Changing Lanes **** (2002, Ben Affleck, Samuel L. Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 1425

Director Roger Michell’s 2002 drama is a real thriller. It was one of its year’s best films. After a minor road prang in the rain in New York, harassed, up-and-coming lawyer Ben Affleck and insurance […]

Jul, 13

Planet of the Apes ***** (1968, Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 1424

Based on Pierre Boulle’s 1963 French novel Monkey Planet (La Planète des singes) , director Franklin J Schaffner’s awesome 1968 sci-fi adventure gives Charlton Heston one of his most memorable roles as George Taylor, an astronaut […]

Jul, 13

Mother *** (1996, Debbie Reynolds, Albert Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 1423

Debbie Reynolds is ideally cast as Beatrice Henderson, the mother from hell in star/co-writer/director Albert Brooks’s entertaining 1996 comedy. She has a successful but middle-aged science fiction writer son (Brooks), who moves back in to live […]

Jul, 13

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