Derek Winnert

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows *½ (2016, Megan Fox, Will Arnett, Laura Linney, Stephen Amell, Tyler Perry) – Movie Review

Complete with drossy dialogue and a warmed-up feel, director Dave Green’s lazily plotted 2016 sequel strands its actors in acres of soulless CGI in this disappointing follow-up to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014). Top billed Megan Fox has […]

Jun, 24

King Rat **** (1965, George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox, John Mills, Denholm Elliott, James Donald) – Classic Movie Review 2422

George Segal makes the most of one his best opportunities as the unscrupulous wheeler-dealing American fast-talker Corporal King, in Bryan Forbes’s excellent, well-crafted 1965 film King Rat. After Paul Newman and Steve McQueen turned the […]

Apr, 24

Sweet and Lowdown *** (1999, Sean Penn, Samantha Morton, Anthony LaPaglia, Uma Thurman, Woody Allen) – Classic Movie Review 1802

Writer-director Woody Allen’s 1999 Jazz Age fable takes the form of a fanciful, fictional tribute to the legendary 30s jazz guitarist Emmet Ray (Sean Penn), who was second only to Django Reinhardt as a music […]

Nov, 03

The Little Vampire *** (2000, Jonathan Lipnicki, Rollo Weeks, Richard E Grant) – Classic Movie Review 1771

A married couple called the Thompsons (Tommy Hinkley, Pamela Gidley) move with their nine-year-old lad Tony (Jonathan Lipnicki) to the Scottish Highlands, where the boy starts dreaming about vampires. Then at first he is soon […]

Oct, 22

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles *** (1990, Judith Hoag, Elias Koteas, Josh Pais) – Classic Movie Review 1769

Cowabunga! Director Steve Barron was first to put the four lean and green hip, pizza-spinning superheroes Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the big screen in 1990, following the start of the half-hour ten-season 1987 TV […]

Oct, 18

The Nut Job ** (voices Will Arnett, Liam Neeson, Brendan Fraser) – Movie Review

Raccoon (voice of Liam Neeson) has ordered squirrels – the heroic Andie (Katherine Heigl) and the ditsy Grayson (Brendan Fraser) – to find a new food source. Andie runs into selfish maverick Surly the Squirrel (Will […]

Jul, 31

Muppets from Space *** (1999, Jeffrey Tambor, F Murray Abraham, Rob Schneider, Josh Charles, Ray Liotta, David Arquette, Andie MacDowell, Kathy Griffin, Hulk Hogan, Pat Hingle) – Classic Movie Review 507

The sixth Muppet movie, the 1999 Muppets from Space, is an amusing, soft-hearted extra-terrestrial adventure about the search for the Great Gonzo’s past. Directed by Tim Hill in 1999, the sixth Muppet movie, subtitled the […]

Dec, 12

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