Derek Anthony Williams

Derek Anthony Williams

Favorite films

  • Liquid Sky
  • Paganini Horror
  • Blade Runner
  • Miracle Mile

Recent activity

All
  • The Mansion of Madness

    ★★★

  • In the Lost Lands

    ★★½

  • Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin

    ★★★

  • Opus

    ★★★

Recent reviews

More
  • The Mansion of Madness

    The Mansion of Madness

    ★★★

    This is rather a total incoherent incompressible mess in many ways. I rarely had the faintest idea of what the story was but yet it's pretty stylish done, on clearly a pretty tiny budget.

    It throws at the screen some absolutely incredible environments and costumes. Performance often at least appropriate for the situations even if not exactly Oscar worthy.

    The whole board surreal imagery is just so compelling it's certainly attention grabbing. I almost feel it's worth more than my…

  • In the Lost Lands

    In the Lost Lands

    ★★½

    Paul W S Anderson making a film with a hott kick ass woman in the lead so he can oggly his wife again.

    Absolutely blithering nonsense that I didn't really follow but still had a prety good time. Much of the acting and script is an abomination but I don't care it's kind of pretty and I love Milla.

    Bautista tries his best to add some gravitas to a terribly written role in a load of absolute tripe but can't,…

Popular reviews

More
  • Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

    Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

    ★★

    In Brief:

    It's just more of the same. Huge exposition dumps with occasional Crouching Tiger ish martial arts. Feels like we've seen it all before.

    In Full:

    I'd been really doubtful about this ever since the first trailer and I'm sad to say my fears about it were entirely right. It's a bland actioner following the same old marvel movie template only with a far less interesting protagonist than ever before.

    Of course it's a noble thing to have a…

  • Gunpowder Milkshake

    Gunpowder Milkshake

    ★½

    In Brief:
    Pretty much what you get if you let the internet make a 'kewl'* movie aping much better directors. Hollow and with honkingly bad dialogue and a pretty poor lead performance from Karen Gillan, but I blame the direction. Lena Heady and Michelle Yeoh almost save it though.

    In full:

    Clearly based around a single concept of what of "John Wick was a girl?" and then an incompetent director is given a lot of money to make it.

    Karen…