Derek Winnert

Zero Population Growth [Z P G] *** (1972, Oliver Reed, Geraldine Chaplin, Diane Cilento, Don Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 8707

Director Michael Campus’s intelligent 1972 British-American-Danish sci-fi thriller film Zero Population Growth [Z P G] is handsome looking and has some thoughts in its head, which is always welcome. In the smog-ridden over-populated 21st century, […]

Jul, 14 · in Reviews

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events *** (2004, Jim Carrey, Meryl Streep, Billy Connolly, Timothy Spall, voice of Jude Law) – Classic Movie Review 8706

With its marvellously gorgeous production and beautiful gleaming, retro-style photography, director Brad Silberling’s 2004 Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events is a dream-looking children’s film, based on three of the books by Lemony Snicket […]

Jul, 14 · in Reviews

The Lemon Drop Kid *** (1951, Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, Lloyd Nolan, Jane Darwell, William Frawley) – Classic Movie Review 8705

Director Sidney Lanfield’s pleasing 1951 black and white comedy stars Bob Hope as New York City swindler Sidney Milburn, aka The Lemon Drop Kid, a race-track tout who owes big bucks to a gangster crook […]

Jul, 14

Kursk: The Last Mission [The Command] *** (2018, Matthias Schoenaerts, Léa Seydoux, Colin Firth, Peter Simonischek, Max von Sydow) – Movie Review

Director Thomas Vinterberg’s sterling, well-told, convincing, compelling film version of the true-life tragic story of the 2000 Russian K-141 Kursk submarine disaster is a worthwhile, immersive but challenging and harrowing experience. Kursk: The Last Mission […]

Jul, 14

The Dead Don’t Die *** (2019, Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tom Waits, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover) – Movie Review

Writer-director Jim Jarmusch’s cool zombie comedy The Dead Don’t Die (2019) is consistently amusing throughout, with a whole lot of laughs and chortles. It is the knowing comedy of irrelevance, sarcasm, throwaway lines, absurdities and […]

Jul, 14

Annabelle Comes Home * (2019, Mckenna Grace, Madison Iseman, Katie Sarife, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson) – Movie Review

Screenplay-writer/director Gary Dauberman’s 2019 horror thriller Annabelle Comes Home is a weak and cheesy Conjuring Universe episode, starring Mckenna Grace as Judy, the young daughter of Lorraine and Ed Warren. The Seventies demonology couple take possession […]

Jul, 14

The White Storm 2: Drug Lords *** (2019, Andy Lau, Louis Koo, Kiu Wai Miu, Chrissie Chau) – Movie Review

Director Herman Yau’s high-octane 2019 Chinese gangster action thriller The White Storm 2: Drug Lords is robust, dynamic and exciting, with the execution more original and impressive than the story, plotting and characters, perhaps inevitably, as […]

Jul, 14

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