Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Blockers ** (2018, John Cena, Leslie Mann, Ike Barinholtz, Kathryn Newton ) – Movie Review

Three idiot parents try to stop their daughters from fulfilling their pact to have sex on prom night. So what else is new? Blockers is rude and raunchy, with some hilarious one liners and some […]

Mar, 31 · in Reviews

Ready Player One *** (2018, Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Mark Rylance) – Movie Review

Steven Spielberg takes a fairly weak screen story and bashes all hell into it to make it a spectacular looking CGI-led flashy virtual reality movie, set in 2045, when the virtual world seems better than […]

Mar, 30 · in Reviews

Love, Simon **** (2018, Nick Robinson, Jennifer Garner, Josh Duhamel) – Movie Review

‘Dear Moviegoers, Please form a line at concessions. It doesn’t have to be straight. Love, Simon.’ Here’s to you, Mr Robinson. Can a whole movie hang on its hero’s smile and charm? Yes, apparently it can. Nick […]

Mar, 30

Orders to Kill **** (1958, Paul Massie, Irene Worth, James Robertson Justice, Leslie French, Eddie Albert, Lillian Gish, John Crawford, Lionel Jeffries, Sandra Dorne) – Classic Movie Review 6870

The 1958 British thriller Orders to Kill is a powerful and persuasive wartime moral dilemma film. Paul Massie stars as an American agent parachuted into France in World War Two with orders to kill a […]

Mar, 30

Crescendo * (1970, Stefanie Powers, James Olson, Margaretta Scott) – Classic Movie Review 6869

Director Alan Gibson’s mediocre 1969 Hammer horror stars Stefanie Powers as Susan Roberts, a brisk and capable US research graduate, who sets off for southern France to seek out a decidedly odd family to do […]

Mar, 29

A Wrinkle in Time * (2018, Storm Reid, Levi Miller, Deric McCabe, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Chris Pine) – Movie Review

Director Ava DuVernay’s Disney kids and early-teen movie for easily entertained girls is embarrassingly awful, with a shamelessly manipulative and sentimental screenplay by Jennifer Lee and Jeff Stockwell, based upon the novel by Madeleine L’Engle. It plays like a […]

Mar, 29

Have a Nice Day [Hao jile] [Dashijie] **** (2017, voices of Changlong Zhu, Kai Cao, Jian Liu) – Movie Review

I have good news! Writer director Jian Liu’s dark and brutal noir animation film 2017 Have a Nice Day [Hao jile] is brilliantly smart and stylish. In his simple but complicated story set in a […]

Mar, 29

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