Derek Winnert

Shazam! (2019, Zachary Levi, Mark Strong, Asher Angel) – Movie Review

The 2019 DC Comics’ family superhero movie Shazam! is as silly and lame as they come, frustratingly unfunny and unamusing, not to mention totally unexciting. Asher Angel is reasonable company as junior hero Billy Batson, […]

Apr, 21 · in Reviews

Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich * (2018, Thomas Lennon, Jenny Pellicer, Nelson Franklin, Udo Kier) – Movie Review

Directors Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund’s Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (2018) is a lively, unpleasant and brilliantly tacky Z-grade reboot of the Eighties Puppet Master franchise. With its gleeful black comedy tone and lack […]

Apr, 21 · in Reviews

Red Joan * (2018, Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Hughes) – Movie Review

Director Trevor Nunn’s spy drama Red Joan (2018) lacks credibility and style as it plods through the real-life story of English-born Joan Stanley, who was living happily as a pensioner when she was exposed as […]

Apr, 21

Greta ** (2018, Isabelle Huppert, Chloë Grace Moretz, Maika Monroe) – Movie Review

Chloë Grace Moretz stars as nice, earnest young Frances McCullen, who finds a handbag on the New York subway and returns it to its owner, lonely widow Greta Hideg (Isabelle Huppert), who, it is soon […]

Apr, 21

Dragged Across Concrete **** (2018, Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Tory Kittles, Thomas Kretschmann) – Movie Review

Writer-director S Craig Zahler’s epic action crime thriller Dragged Across Concrete is slow and talky, but just this one time maybe this proves a good thing, and it delivers really strongly over its extended two […]

Apr, 21

Cat’s Eye *** (1985, Drew Barrymore, James Woods, Alan King) – Classic Movie Review 8384

Director Lewis Teague’s 1985 compendium / portmanteau/ anthology horror movie Cat’s Eye is a trilogy of Stephen King’s suspense and terror tales (Quitters Inc, The Ledge, The General), with King’s screenplay competently directed for mild […]

Apr, 20

Creepshow 2 *** (1987, George Kennedy, Lois Chiles, Domenick John) – Classic Movie Review 8383

Director Michael Gornick’s 1987 horror anthology sequel Creepshow 2 has three more Stephen King EC Comics-inspired stories adapted in the screenplay by George A Romero, the director of the first Creepshow (1982), and this time […]

Apr, 20

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