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 5,225

‘Now He Knew Her as Other Men Had!’ The superior, touching 1953 soap opera film All I Desire is directed at full emotional throttle by Douglas Sirk and is stirringly acted, especially by the admirable […]

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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