Derek Winnert

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Room **** (2015, Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Joan Allen, William H Macy, Sean Bridgers) – Movie Review

Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay star as Ma and Jack, a devoted mother and her spirited five-year-old son, who are trapped in a windowless, 10-foot by 10-foot room, where bizarrely Ma tries to create a life for them […]

Dec, 21

Krampus ***½ (2015, Adam Scott, Toni Collette, David Koechner, Emjay Anthony) – Movie Review

The 2015 American Christmas horror comedy film Krampus stars Adam Scott, Toni Collette, Emjay Anthony, David Koechner, Conchata Ferrell, and Krista Stadler, and is based on the demonic entity Krampus character from Austro-Bavarian folklore that […]

Dec, 07

The Tin Drum [Die Blechtrommel] ***** (1979, David Bennent, Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler) – Classic Movie Review 2392

Co-writer/director Volker Schlöndorff’s astounding and quite extraordinary 1979 surrealistic black comedy deservedly pulled off the double whammy of being the 1980 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner and the 1979 Palme D’Or winner at the Cannes […]

Apr, 14

The Guilt Trip *** (2012, Barbra Streisand, Seth Rogen) – Classic Movie Review 2275

Unexpectedly funny and successful 2012 American comedy-drama starring Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen, who both are on best form as Jewish mom Joyce Brewster and her inventor son Andy who embark on a bickering, bonding […]

Mar, 17

X + Y ***½ (2104, Asa Butterfield, Rafe Spall, Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Jo Yang) – Movie Review

X + Y = a really rather good spirit-lifting British movie. It is spurred on to win by a lovely performance by Asa Butterfield as Nathan, a socially awkward English teenage maths prodigy who lands a […]

Mar, 11

Superman *** (1948, Kirk Alyn, Noel Neill, Tommy Bond, Pierre Watkin) – Classic Movie Review 2244

The Daily Planet’s meek newsman Clark Kent gets into baggy tights, turns into the flying mighty Man of Steel, Superman, and battles with the scary Spider Lady in directors Spencer Gordon Bennet and Thomas Carr’s […]

Mar, 07

The King and I * (1999, voices of Miranda Richardson, Martin Vidnovic, Christiane Noll, Ian Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 2194

Director Richard Rich’s misfiring 1999 animated feature is a disappointing, flatly cartoon version of the Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II all-time great 1951 stage and 1956 movie musical triumphs, based on Margaret Landon’s book […]

Feb, 21

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