Derek Winnert

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The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones *** (2013, Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower, Robert Sheehan, Kevin Zegers, Jemima West, Lena Headey) – Movie Review

Teenage girls (and a few boys) will be in heaven with this flashy special-effects-led Twilight meets Harry Potter fantasy adventure, with a non-stop breathless rush of magic, action, effects and romance. It’s all set in […]

Aug, 22 · in Reviews

We’re the Millers **** ( 2013, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Emma Roberts, Will Poulter, Ed Helms, Luis Guzman, Nick Offerman, Kathryn Hahn, Molly Quinn) – Movie Review

Director Rawson M Thurber’s 2013 American crime comedy film We’re the Millers stars Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Emma Roberts, Will Poulter, Nick Offerman, Kathryn Hahn, Molly Quinn, Luis Guzman, and Ed Helms. To get himself […]

Aug, 21 · in Reviews

Lovelace – Film Review

Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s film is a thoughtful, provocative version of the story of Linda Lovelace, the star of Deep Throat (1972), the world’s most famous and successful porn movie. Born Linda Boreman in […]

Aug, 21

What Maisie Knew **** (2012, Julianne Moore, Alexander Skarsgård, Steve Coogan, Onata Aprile) – Movie Review

A modern-day, New York-set update on the Henry James novel. Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan impress hugely as Susanna and Beale, a loathsome self-obsessed married couple, with a lovely, bewildered little six-year-old daughter, Maisie (Onata Aprile). […]

Aug, 21

The Wicker Man ***** (1973, Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt, Britt Ekland, Lindsay Kemp, Aubrey Morris) – Classic Movie Review 179

Robin Hardy got together with writer Anthony Shaffer in 1973 to make this hugely imaginative, intelligent and chillingly scary horror film about the celebration of paganism on a remote Scottish island called Summerisle. Début director […]

Aug, 21

Jurassic Park ***** (1993, Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough) – Classic Movie Review 178

Steven Spielberg gathers up the plot, characters, situations and themes of the famous, thoughtful novel by Michael Crichton and turns them into a great, old-style horror adventure with great new-style special effects. Broadening the appeal of the […]

Aug, 20

Cape Fear **** (1991, Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis, Illeana Douglas, Joe Don Baker) – Classic Movie Review 177

Robert De Niro terrorises Nick Nolte, and Joe Don Baker plays a morally dubious private investigator, in Martin Scorsese’s 1991 American neo-noir psychological thriller film remake Cape Fear.  Martin Scorsese boldly remakes J Lee Thompson’s much-admired 1962 thriller masterwork Cape Fear, […]

Aug, 19

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