Derek Winnert

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A Perfect Plan ** (2012, Diane Kruger, Dany Boon) – Movie Review

Director Pascal Chaumeil’s broad but pleasant French romcom can at least boast a fresh and interesting premise. An entire family is apparently cursed for ever that all its members find their first marriages end in divorce. Diane Kruger plays […]

Jun, 13

Sphinx ** (1981, Lesley-Anne Down, Frank Langella, John Gielgud) – So Bad It’s Good Movie 13

Lesley-Anne Down enjoys a huge but ill-starred star role as the resolute archaeologist Erica Baron in the infamous 1981 so-bad-it’s-good movie Sphinx. Lesley-Anne Down enjoys a huge but ill-starred star role in the infamous 1981 […]

Jun, 05

Maleficent *** (2014, Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley, Imelda Staunton, Lesley Manville, Juno Temple, Sam Riley, Brenton Thwaites, Kenneth Cranham) – Movie Review

Walt Disney remakes its 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty as a lively 3D live action adventure that’s aimed more at teens than tots who’d find it too scary. There’s nothing scarier in it than Angelina […]

May, 29

The Odd Couple ***** (1968, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler, Monica Evans, Carole Shelley, Herb Edelman, Iris Adrian) – Classic Movie Review 708

Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon light up the screen with laughter as the quintessential Odd Couple in 1968. Matthau plays the slobbish, grouchy sportswriter Oscar Madison and Lemmon is the houseproud, hypochondriac photographer Felix Ungar, […]

Jan, 17

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 **** (2011, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman, Ralph Fiennes, John Hurt) – Classic Movie Review 583

It all ends. After this final movie in 2011, school’s out for good and there’s no Hogwarts! In the last chapter, Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) continue their quest to find and […]

Dec, 28

Night of the Demon [Curse of the Demon] ****½ (1957, Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis, Maurice Denham, Athene Seyler, Brian Wilde) – Classic Movie Review 500

In director Jacques Tourneur’s 1957 vintage British horror movie Night of the Demon [Curse of the Demon], Niall MacGinnis has a fine old time as occultist and devil cult leader Dr Julian Karswell, who summons […]

Dec, 11

The Hound of the Baskervilles **** (1959, Peter Cushing, André Morell, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 313

‘It’s the picture about that bone-chilling HOWL!’ Director Terence Fisher’s 1959 vintage horror mystery The Hound of the Baskervilles is based on the novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and stars Peter Cushing as Sherlock […]

Oct, 23

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