Derek Winnert

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Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan ** (1989, Jensen Daggett, Kane Hodder, Todd Caldecott ) – Classic Movie Review 1817

Friday the 13th Part VIII is a typically bloody and repetitious stalk and slash horror movie, in which stowaway hockey masked serial killer Jason Voorhees (again played by Kane Hodder) systematically tries to murder an entire graduating […]

Nov, 07

The Maggie [High and Dry] *** (1954, Paul Douglas, Alex Mackenzie, James Copeland) – Classic Movie Review 1652

The 1954 British comedy movie The Maggie is a small-scale, wryly amusing, spirit-lifting Ealing comedy from the brains behind The Ladykillers (1955). Director Alexander Mackendrick’s 1954 British comedy movie The Maggie [High and Dry] from Ealing Studios stars […]

Sep, 08

Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog *** (1995, Jesse Bradford) – Classic Movie Review 1534

Jesse Bradford is super as young Angus McCormick (aged 14), who finds himself washed ashore in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest after a storm capsizes his boat at sea and separates him from his […]

Aug, 10

Tristan + Isolde **** (2006, James Franco, Sophia Myles, Rufus Sewell) – Classic Movie Review 1431

James Franco stars as a dreamy Tristan and Sophia Myles as his feisty royal  lover in director Kevin Reynolds’s 2006 epic romantic drama film based on the medieval romantic legend set in the Dark Ages in […]

Jul, 15

Anaconda ** (1997, Jon Voight, Jennifer Lopez, Eric Stoltz , Owen Wilson, Ice Cube, Danny Trejo, Jonathan Hyde) – So Bad It’s Good Movie Review 10

Director Luis Llosa’s 1997 monster-movie thriller Anaconda is sublimely ridiculous, with the big Anaconda snake threatening an Amazon film-doc expedition. It may have a few likeable down-on-their-luck stars in in it, but it’s risible rock-bottom […]

Mar, 27

Mean Creek **** (2004, Rory Culkin, Ryan Kelley, Scott Mechlowicz) – Classic Movie Review 966

Writer-director Jacob Aaron Estes’s 2004 well-crafted revenge thriller is taut, tense, creepy and a little bit scary. In Stephen King Stand By Me mode, it’s an unsettling little thought provoker as well as fear ride. Rory […]

Mar, 22

Bastards (Les salauds) – Film Review

Vincent Lindon stars as supertanker captain Marco Silvestri, who is called back urgently to Paris, where his sister Sandra (Julie Bataille) is desperate. Her husband has committed suicide, the family business has gone under and her […]

Feb, 12

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