Derek Winnert

American Pie **** (1999, Jason Biggs, Chris Klein, Seann William Scott, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Eugene Levy, Jennifer Coolidge) – Classic Movie Review 260

‘Dude, that chick’s a MILF!’ Directors Paul and Chris Weitz’s infamous 1999 teen gross-out sex comedy, written by Adam Herz, is always delightful and amusing, often astoundingly funny and sometimes hysterical. It is one of […]

Sep, 30 · in Reviews

The Funeral **** (1996, Christopher Walken, Chris Penn) – Classic Movie Review 259

‘God made  the world. I’m just makin’ do with what I got.’ – Ray Tempio. Abel Ferrara’s critically acclaimed 1996 Mob family crime drama, set in New York in the Depression era of the 1930s, is […]

Sep, 30 · in Reviews

Filth * (2013, James McAvoy, Jamie Bell, Eddie Marsan, Shauna Macdonald, John Sessions, Imogen Poots, Gary Lewis) – Movie Review

There’s never a dull moment, but Filth is a dismaying and dispiriting experience. This is one heck of a scary movie, but in the wrong way. Two of my favourite actors James McAvoy and Jamie […]

Sep, 29

Mister John *** (2013, Aidan Gillen, Zoe Tay, Molly Rose Lawlor) – Movie Review

An elusive tale of a man in an identity crisis and an existential stupor. Any way you look at it, that’s a real hard one to sell. Aidan Gillen stars as Irishman Gerry Devine, who leaves his unfaithful […]

Sep, 29

Girl Most Likely – Film Review

Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids) stars as the Girl Most Likely, once the Next Big Thing, now just Last Year’s News. A failed New York playwright and general suicidal sad case, Imogene lands up in hospital when her […]

Sep, 29

Austenland ** (2013, Keri Russell, J J Feild, Jennifer Coolidge) – Movie Review

That good and appealing actress Keri Russell draws the short straw and plays an idiot American woman called Jane Hayes, who’s obsessed with Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Mr Darcy and Colin Firth in the BBC […]

Sep, 28

In the Name of *** (2013, Andrzej Chyra, Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Maja Ostaszewska, Lukasz Simlat, Tomasz Schuchardt, Maria Maj) – Movie Review

Malgorzata Szumowska, the Polish director of Elles (2011) starring Juliette Binoche and 33 Scenes from Life (2008), boldly goes and confidently tackles a very tricky, long taboo topic with the surprisingly unsettling and subtle In the […]

Sep, 28

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