Derek Winnert

It Was an Accident (2000, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Max Beesley, James Bolam, Thandie Newton, Nicola Stapleton, Neil Dudgeon) – Classic Movie Review 7313

It was a comedy? No, I didn’t think so! Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in director Metin Hüseyin‘s 2000 It Was an Accident as Nicky Burkett, who comes out of jail after four years and returns to Walthamstow, London, to find […]

Jul, 20 · in Reviews

Hotel Artemis *** (2018, Jodie Foster, Dave Bautista, Sofia Boutella, Jeff Goldblum, Charlie Day) – Movie Review

Quirky, fun and exciting indie action thriller in the Free Fire vein, but with a bit of a heart and a bit of a brain too. Jodie Foster and Dave Bautista have a great double act […]

Jul, 20 · in Reviews

The Big Town *** (1987, Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Tommy Lee Jones ) – Classic Movie Review 7312

The handsome young Matt Dillon is all cool Eighties style that proves perfect for his role as the cocky Fifties small town boy J C Cullen, who comes Chicago to work as a professional gambler and […]

Jul, 19

Dead of Winter *** (1987, Mary Steenburgen, Roddy McDowall, Jan Rubes) – Classic Movie Review 7311

Director Arthur Penn’s enjoyable 1986 thriller Dead of Winter stars Mary Steenburgen (in one of three roles) as a struggling actress called Katie McGovern, who is lured by the promise of an audition and possible work […]

Jul, 19

Target ** (1985, Gene Hackman, Matt Dillon, Gayle Hunnicutt) – Classic Movie Review 7,310

Gene Hackman is reliable as ever in the 1985 film Target as an ex-CIA man who sets out to try to rescue his wife (Gayle Hunnicutt) kidnapped while in Europe. Director Arthur Penn’s 1985 film […]

Jul, 19

Rebel *** (1985, Matt Dillon, Debra Byrne, Bryan Brown) – Classic Movie Review 7309

Co-writer/ director Michael Jenkins’s 1985 Australian movie Rebel stars Matt Dillon as the eponymous American Marine sergeant Rebel, a traumatised American deserter from World War Two, who, while recuperating from battle, falls for married Aussie nightclub songbird […]

Jul, 19

Ant-Man and the Wasp ** (2018, Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Peña, Michael Douglas, Walton Goggins, Michelle Pfeiffer) – Movie Review

Peyton Reed follows up his Ant-Man (2015) with Ant-Man and the Wasp, which is pretty much the same as the first one and again is okay as a throwaway popcorn movie. It is fast-paced and amiable, with […]

Jul, 19

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