Derek Winnert

Gremlins 2: The New Batch **** (1990, Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover, Robert Prosky, Christopher Lee, Dick Miller, Keye Luke) – Classic Movie Review 551

It’s 1990 and six years after the first Gremlins movie, and Zach Galligan and Phoebe Cates are back as nice young sweethearts Billy Peltzer and Kate Beringer. They are soon reunited with their cute mogwai […]

Dec, 20 · in Reviews

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty *** (2013, Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Shirley MacLaine, Sean Penn, Adam Scott) – Movie Review

Ben Stiller directs, produces and stars in a pleasing but flawed, underachieving remake of the 1947 Danny Kaye film of James Thurber’s classic short story of a day-dreamer who escapes his dull, routine life as a Life […]

Dec, 20 · in Reviews

The Snowman ***** (1982, voice of David Bowie, Raymond Briggs) – Classic Movie Review 550

The famous must-see 1982 animated adventure film The Snowman is about a young English boy who makes a snowman one Christmas Eve. The haunting song ‘Walking in the Air’ is sung by Peter Auty. Apart […]

Dec, 20

The Hurt Locker ***** (2008, Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse) – Classic Movie Review 549

Director Kathryn (Point Break) Bigelow’s sensationally sizzling 2008 battlefield movie follows the story of an elite US Army bomb disposal squad in Baghdad during the Iraq War. Bigelow became the first woman to win an […]

Dec, 19

Frozen River ****½ (2008, Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Charlie McDermott, Michael O’Keefe) – Classic Movie Review 548

Melissa Leo should have won the Best Actress Oscar for her inspired star role in writer-director Courtney Hunt’s sizzling 2008 thriller, but, instead, Kate Winslet did for her merely highly professional performance in The Reader. […]

Dec, 19

Reindeer Games [Deception] *** (2000, Ben Affleck, Gary Sinise, Charlize Theron ) – Classic Movie Review 547

A well-cast Ben Affleck pleases as an ex-con car thief who impersonates his murdered cellmate (James Frain) to meet the man’s jail penfriend (Charlize Theron), who’s waiting at the prison gates. Affleck is then drawn […]

Dec, 19

Daredevil **** (2003, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Colin Farrell, Michael Clarke Duncan, Jon Favreau) – Classic Movie Review 546

In 2003’s superhero comic-book action thriller written and directed by Mark Steven Johnson, Ben Affleck looks suitably heroic if admittedly a bit shifty in a red leather suit as the Stan Lee screen superhero Daredevil […]

Dec, 19

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