Derek Winnert

Kids Return [Kizzu ritân] **** (1996, Ken Kaneko, Masanobu Andô, Leo Morimoto ) – Classic Movie Review 6526

Japanese writer-director Takeshi Kitano returns to form in his compassionate 1996 boxing tale about two troublesome teenage drifters, boxer Shinji (Masanobu Andô) and Yakuza gangster Masaru (Ken Kaneko), who take up boxing when their intimidation tactics […]

Jan, 06 · in Reviews

Hana-Bi [Fireworks] **** (1997, Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Osugi) – Classic Movie Review 6525

After the bright young Kids Return (1996), Japanese writer-director-star Takeshi Kitano (Beat Takeshi) turns in a world-weary old man’s movie in this meditation on lives at the end of their tether. For Hana-Bi, Takeshi Kitano was […]

Jan, 06 · in Reviews

Hammett **** (1982, Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner) – Classic Movie Review 6,524

Wim Wenders’s eye-catching and very worthy 1982 neo noir film homage to the crime thriller and its great writer Dashiell Hammett has the tasteful stamp of its producer Francis Ford Coppola all over it. Coppola […]

Jan, 06

All the Money in the World *** (2017, Michelle Williams, Christopher Plummer, Mark Wahlberg, Charlie Plummer) – Movie Review

John Paul Getty (Christopher Plummer) has All the Money in the World but won’t cough up the $17 million ransom his daughter-in-law Gail (Michelle Williams) needs for the ransom to spring his 16-year-old grandson Jean Paul Getty III […]

Jan, 05

The Hallelujah Trail *** (1965, Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Brian Keith, Jim Hutton, Donald Pleasence, Martin Landau, Pamela Tiffin) – Classic Movie Review 6523

Producer-director John Sturges’s good-looking, robust 1965 Western stars Burt Lancaster as Colonel Thaddeus Gearhart, who is assigned to protect a valuable shipment of whisky en route to the thirsty miners in Denver. Native Americans, the US […]

Jan, 05

Stromboli [Stromboli, Terra di Dio] **** (1949, Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana) – Classic Movie Review 6522

Producer-director Roberto Rossellini’s beautiful, brooding and delicately done 1949 Italian neo-realist film tells his story about an attractive Lithuanian refugee called Karen (Ingrid Bergman) who marries a young Italian fisherman named Antonio (Mario Vitale) to escape […]

Jan, 05

Pitch Perfect 3 ** (2017, Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, Anna Camp, Hailee Steinfeld) – Movie Review

Pitch Perfect 3 is bright enough for the first hour, with enough warmth and good humour and some enjoyable numbers, but it fizzles out and then just fades away, leaving no good taste or lasting […]

Jan, 05

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