Derek Winnert

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Absolutely Anything * (2015, Simon Pegg, Kate Beckinsale, voice of Robin Williams) – Movie Review

Absolutely Anything… except laughs. Well, to be fair, there are a couple of chuckles in co-writer/director Terry Jones‘s struggling sci-fi comedy, a lesser variant of Bruce Almighty. It plays like an update on a cosy Fifties […]

Aug, 13

Stonehearst Asylum *** (2014, Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson) – Movie Review

Most entertaining old-style horror movie, set in the creepy asylum of the title, with an exceptionally plush production and highly amusing tongue-in-cheek turns from Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine and David Thewlis. Taking it all very seriously, […]

Apr, 21

The Face of an Angel ***½ (2014, Daniel Brühl, Kate Beckinsale, Cara Delevingne) – Movie Review

Director Michael Winterbottom’s intelligent and involving film takes the real-life Italian murder case of British student Meredith Kercher in 2007 and turns it into a sideways take on events, profitably focusing on a documentary film-maker/screenwriter (Daniel Brühl) and his […]

Mar, 26

Van Helsing *** (2004, Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh, David Wenham) – Classic Movie Review 2108

Having successfully resurrected The Mummy, writer-director Stephen Sommers now turns his hand in 2004 to the other Universal horror icons. So, this time, Dracula meets the Frankenstein’s Monster (Shuler Hensley) and the Wolf Man, as […]

Jan, 24

Laurel Canyon *** (2002, Frances McDormand, Christian Bale, Kate Beckinsale) – Classic Movie Review 1533

You don’t expect to see Oscar-winner Frances McDormand playing a free-spirited record producer prone to wild parties and taking dope, with her tongue down the throat of the fiancée (Kate Beckinsale) of her estranged son Sam (Christian […]

Aug, 10

Shooting Fish *** (1997, Stuart Townsend, Dan Futterman, Kate Beckinsale) – Classic Movie Review 1490

Writer-director Stefan Schwartz’s 1997 British comedy stars Stuart Townsend and Dan Futterman as Jez and Dylan, a couple of orphaned con-men who join up with their posh office temp Georgie (Kate Beckinsale) to scam enough […]

Jul, 29

The Golden Bowl **** (Nick Nolte, Uma Thurman, Jeremy Northam, Kate Beckinsale) – Classic Film Review 1217

Nick Nolte is brilliant in producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory’s splendid, intense, beautifully realised 2000 film version of the classic novel by Henry James. What tangled webs we weave! A poverty-stricken Italian, Prince […]

May, 15

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