Derek Winnert

Sorry to Bother You * (2018, Lakeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Jermaine Fowler, Danny Glover, Armie Hammer) – Movie Review

Debut writer-director Boots Riley’s 2018 surreal satirical comedy Sorry to Bother You is a nice try, with ambition and intelligence behind it, but it is mostly strained and unamusing. It is pretty much a one-joke movie, […]

Dec, 09 · in Uncategorized

Notes on a Scandal *** (2006, Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Andrew Simpson, Michael Maloney, Tom Georgeson, Shaun Parkes, Phil Davis, Bill Nighy, Juno Temple) – Classic Movie Review 7897

Director Richard Eyre’s 2006 lesbian drama Notes on a Scandal was nominated for four Oscars. The smart screenplay is by Patrick Marber, based on the novel by Zoë Heller. Judi Dench is extremely effective cast against […]

Dec, 09 · in Uncategorized

Mortal Engines ** (2018, Hera Hilmar, Hugo Weaving, Jihae, Robert Sheehan, Leila George, Stephen Lang) – Movie Review

Director Christian Rivers’s 2018 teen fantasy action adventure Mortal Engines is very shakily based on the young adult novel of the same name by Philip Reeves. The story is cheesy and unconvincing on screen, lacking […]

Dec, 08

White Boy Rick ** (2018, Matthew McConaughey, Richie Merritt, Bel Powley, Jennifer Jason Leigh) – Movie Review

It is easy to see what drew director Yann Demange to the story of the rise and fall of the teenage drug hustler Rick Wershe Jr for his real-life Eighties crime drama movie White Boy Rick. […]

Dec, 08

The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy **** (1967, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase) – Classic Movie Review 7896

Turn down the rather irritating commentary and turn up the brightness for writer-producer-director Robert Youngson’s 1967 The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy, tasty chunks of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy’s silent comedies made at […]

Dec, 08

The Big Parade ***** (1925, John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth) – Classic Movie Review 7895

Director King Vidor’s commanding World War One epic 1925 drama The Big Parade, full of startling battle images bringing the conflict to vivid life, is one of the great highspots of silent cinema. The film takes […]

Dec, 08

China Girl *** (1987, James Russo, Richard Panebianco, Sari Chang, David Caruso, Russell Wong) – Classic Movie Review 7894

Director Abel Ferrara’s 1987 romantic crime drama China Girl stars Richard Panebianco and Sari Chang as a pizza boy from a Mafia family and a girl from a Chinese street gang, who fall in love, […]

Dec, 07

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