Derek Winnert

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Home Alone 3 ** (1997, Alex D Linz, Olek Krupa, Rya Kihlstedt, Lenny von Dohlen) – Classic Movie Review 2859

The whole of the original Home Alone team is absent for director Raja Gosnell’s third, unrelated 1997 episode. This time a different lad, eight-year-old Alex Pruitt (Alex D Linz), is (again improbably) left abandoned at home alone […]

Aug, 29

Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House ** (2002, French Stewart, Mike Weinberg, Clare Carey, Jason Beghe, Erick Avari, Missi Pyle, Joanna Going) – Classic Movie Review 2860

In director Rod Daniel’s perhaps unwanted 2002 third sequel, it is the turn of Michael ‘Mike’ Weinberg to play Kevin McCallister, who is staying Home Alone again. And once more of course robbers attack the […]

Aug, 29

Friday the 13th Part 9: Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday *** (1993, John D LeMay, Kari Keegan, Kane Hodder) – Classic Movie Review 1816

Co-storywriter/director Adam Marcus’s 1993 slasher horror sequel is Friday the 13th Part 9 in all but name. It ticks off all the boxes for the horror fans with a high body count, good-looking teenagers, the […]

Nov, 07

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

Jason X ** (2001, Kane Hodder, Lexa Doig, David Cronenberg) – Classic Movie Review 1814

Director James ‘Jim’ Isaac’s slick 2001 slasher horror movie sequel is Friday the 13th Part 10 in all but name. The useful new twist this time is that the story rockets into space. Kane Hodder plays horrendous maniac […]

Nov, 07

Sidewalks of New York *** (2001, Edward Burns, Heather Graham, Rosario Dawson, Stanley Tucci, Dennis Farina) – Classic Movie Review 1610

Writer/co-producer Edward Burns directs this sprightly 2001 Woody Allen-style Manhattan relationship movie following the interlocking lives and loves of half a dozen New Yorkers. Burns also stars as Tommy, a TV producer who has a fling […]

Aug, 30

The Brothers McMullen *** (1995, Edward Burns, Mike McGlone, Jack Mulcahy, Maxine Bahns) – Classic Movie Review 1609

Producer-writer-director Edward Burns’s 1995 indie hit focuses on three Catholic Irish-American brothers (played by Burns, Mike McGlone and Jack Mulcahy) from Long Island. They are having women problems, with love, marriage and infidelity, and are having […]

Aug, 30

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