Derek Winnert

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Ne Zha [Nezha zhi motong jiangshi] (2019) – Movie Review

Writer-director Yu Yang [Jiaozi]’s striking 2019 Chinese animated fantasy adventure Ne Zha [Nezha zhi motong jiangshi] is bright, lively, entertaining, sometimes impressive and sometimes just amiably silly. Some of the animation design looks very good […]

Sep, 12

Tightrope **** (1984, Clint Eastwood, Geneviève Bujold, Dan Hedaya) – Classic Movie Review 3815

Writer-director Richard Tuggle’s 1984 thriller is admittedly nasty and violent, but it also exciting, tense and suspenseful – and an underestimated, perhaps often misunderstood movie. It is rated R for strong sexuality, nudity, terror, violence and […]

Jun, 06

Heartless ***½ (2009, Jim Sturgess, Timothy Spall, Luke Treadaway, Clémence Poésy, Eddie Marsan) – Classic Movie Review 3441

Jim Sturgess impresses again as Jamie Morgan, a young misfit photographer with a heart-shaped birthmark on his face, who finds the gangs terrorising his East London neighbourhood are murderous demons. In writer-director Philip Ridley’s first […]

Mar, 02

Constantine **** (2005, Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf, Tilda Swinton, Peter Stormare, Djimon Hounsou) – Classic Movie Review 255

Keanu Reeves stars as John Constantine, a chain-smoking demon hunter who can commune with angels and demons on Earth, in the smart, imaginative 2005 fantasy sci-fi horror thriller Constantine. ‘Hell wants him. Heaven won’t take […]

Sep, 21

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones *** (2013, Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower, Robert Sheehan, Kevin Zegers, Jemima West, Lena Headey) – Movie Review

Teenage girls (and a few boys) will be in heaven with this flashy special-effects-led Twilight meets Harry Potter fantasy adventure, with a non-stop breathless rush of magic, action, effects and romance. It’s all set in […]

Aug, 22

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