Derek Winnert

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer ** (1992, Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, Paul Reubens, Rutger Hauer, Luke Perry) – Classic Movie Review 2733

Director Fran Rubel Kuzui’s fondly recalled 1992 fantasy action comedy Buffy the Vampire Slayer has a great cast, is written by cult name Joss Whedon and spawned the long-running hit TV series (1997–2003) that he […]

Jul, 23

Igby Goes Down **** (2002, Kieran Culkin, Susan Sarandon, Jeff Goldblum, Ryan Phillippe, Bill Pullman, Claire Danes, Amanda Peet) – Classic Movie Review 2645

Writer-director Burr Steers’s 2002 comedy stars Kieran Culkin, who proves a little superstar as Igby, a crazy, mixed-up 17-year-old kid with a really bad attitude and hateful folks in his life. His dying mom Mimi […]

Jun, 27

Encino Man [California Man] **** (1992, Sean Astin, Brendan Fraser, Pauly Shore) – Classic Movie Review 2615

Director Les Mayfield’s 1992 wild and wacky teen comedy is incredibly juvenile but unexpectedly funny and engaging, coming in the wake and style of Bill and Ted and Wayne’s World. It’s now regarded as a classic […]

Jun, 18

Freeway * (1996, Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, Bokeem Woodbine) – Classic Movie Review 2570

Writer-director Matthew Bright’s exploitative, really nasty 1996 revenge thriller stars Reese Witherspoon as abused juvenile delinquent teenager Vanessa Lutz, who is travelling to her grandmother’s trailer park home on the run from a social worker. […]

Jun, 08

Nativity 3: Dude, Where’s My Donkey? ** (2014, Martin Clunes, Marc Wootton, Catherine Tate, Celia Imrie, Jason Watkins) – Movie Review

It’s amazing that they’ve managed to find new material to squeeze a trilogy out of what was a thin idea in the first place back in 2009. But the third of the Nativity film series […]

May, 10

The Falling **** (2014, Maisie Williams, Florence Pugh, Maxine Peake, Greta Scacchi) – Movie Review

The Falling is a unique and special British movie, teasing and haunting. Writer-director Carol Morley’s film is set in a well-constructed 1969 atmosphere at a strict English girls’ school where among the pupils are a couple of […]

Apr, 24

Diabolique * (1996, Sharon Stone, Isabelle Adjani, Chazz Palminteri, Kathy Bates) – Classic Movie Review 2355

Director Jeremiah S Chechik’s 1996 thriller is an awful, boring, suspense-free American remake of the 1955 classic French spine-tingler, Les Diaboliques, using that film’s American title of Diabolique. It completely wastes the ingenious story by Vertigo […]

Apr, 04

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