Derek Winnert

Scary Movie 5 * (2013, Ashley Tisdale, Simon Rex) – Movie Review

None of the cast members from the previous films returns in this appallingly slack and shoddy fourth sequel to the 2000 movie that was ironically advertised way back then as ‘no mercy, no shame, no […]

May, 06 · in Reviews

The Liability *** (2012, Jack O’Connell, Tim Roth, Peter Mullan) – Movie Review

Jack O’Connell shows why he’s a rising star in a compelling performance as 19-year-old Adam, who’s forced to do a day’s driving for his mum’s gangster boyfriend Peter (Peter Mullan). This leads the boy on […]

May, 05 · in Reviews

The Lords of Salem *** (2012, Sheri Moon Zombie, Meg Foster, Bruce Davison) – Movie Review

Wife and muse of the director, Sheri Moon Zombie stars as Heidi Hawthorne, a radio DJ in Salem, Massachusetts, who’s running a jokey talk and music show along with her buddies Whitey (Jeffrey Daniel Phillips) […]

May, 04

Mona Lisa **** (1986, Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine, Robbie Coltrane) – Classic Movie Review 1178

The 1986 classic Mona Lisa is an outstanding British neo-noir mystery thriller from an on-top-form co-writer/ director Neil Jordan. It is distinguished by a career-best performance of rare and unusual excellence by Bob Hoskins as […]

May, 04

Small Soldiers *** (1998, Kirsten Dunst, Gregory Smith, David Cross, Jay Mohr, Phil Hartman, Kevin Dunn, Dick Miller, Ann Magnuson, Dennis Leary) – Classic Movie Review 1175

Director Joe Dante’s 1998 release is a patchy but lively and exuberant toy-action comedy adventure. The tale is daft and thin, but there are plenty of goodish jokes to spin it out in the adroit […]

May, 04

Event Horizon ***½ (1997, Laurence Fishburne, Joely Richardson, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan) – Classic Movie Review 1173

Script problems and an unnecessarily nasty tone do some structural damage to director Paul (Mortal Kombat) Anderson’s eerily spooky 1997 science-fiction chiller, in which a rescue ship sets off to find the title deep-space research […]

May, 04

Mama *** (2013, Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) – Movie Review

Mama is a pretty good, well-crafted Spanish version of the Japanese drippy water, scary videos, troubled mamas kind of chillers. It has its tense and scary moments, plus a whole lot of atmosphere. Co-writer director […]

May, 03

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