Derek Winnert

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The Killing of a Sacred Deer **** (2017, Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan, Alicia Silverstone) – Movie Review 

Co-writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos’s dark and sinister drama is his keenly anticipated follow-up to The Lobster (2015). It is very much in the same spirit, a largely impenetrable, impeccably crafted old-style art movie, catnip for film […]

Oct, 12

The Nightcomers ** (1971, Marlon Brando, Stephanie Beacham, Thora Hird, Harry Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 5872

The ever-enterprising producer-director Michael Winner was a great entrepreneur and managed to film with some of cinema’s biggest names – here in 1971 it is Marlon Brando. The movies, well, they were something else. Based […]

Aug, 07

Brainscan ** (1994, Edward Furlong, Frank Langella, T Ryder Smith, Amy Hargreaves, Jamie Marsh) – Classic Movie Review 5607

Director John Flynn’s 1994 movie is a minor-league sci-fi/horror thriller in which horror buff teenager Michael Brower (Edward Furlong, from Terminator 2: Judgment Day) commits simulated murder on his new interactive computer game called Brainscan. […]

Jun, 14

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen * (2004, Lindsay Lohan, Adam Garcia, Carol Kane, Glenne Headly, Megan Fox, Alison Pill) – Classic Movie Review 5579

Welsh director Sara Sugarman’s first big-studio movie is aimed at 14-year-old girls, as Lindsay Lohan plays crazy teen Mary Elizabeth Steppe, aka Lola, who relocates from the sophisticated Big Apple to suburban New Jersey. There […]

Jun, 10

All I Desire **** (1953, Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Carlson, Lyle Bettger, Maureen O’Sullivan, Richard Long, Lori Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 5225

‘Now He Knew Her as Other Men Had!’ This superior, touching 1953 soap opera is directed at full emotional throttle by Douglas Sirk and is stirringly acted, especially by the admirable Barbara Stanwyck. Stanwyck plays […]

Mar, 31

The Run of the Country *** (1995, Albert Finney, Matt Keeslar, Victoria Smurfit) – Classic Movie Review 4932

Matt Keeslar plays Danny, a rebellious teenage boy who is having trouble with his father (Albert Finney), a short tempered Irish rural policeman, in director Peter Yates’s well-crafted, sincere, heart-tugging 1995 slice of Irish baloney. […]

Jan, 24

The Perfect Score ** (2004, Scarlett Johansson, Erika Christensen, Chris Evans, Bryan Greenberg, Matthew Lillard) – Classic Movie Review 4890

Director Brian Robbins’s decent 2004 youth drama cannot earn a perfect score, but it does win marks for trying. The screenplay by Marc Hyman, Jon Zack and Mark Schwahn tells a familiar yet friendly yarn, […]

Jan, 14

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