Derek Winnert

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power *** (2017, Al Gore) – Movie Review

Al Gore’s timely and essential sequel to An Inconvenient Truth (2006) accentuates the positive and shows how close we are to an energy revolution – if only we do a little bit more! Directors Bonni Cohen and Jon […]

Aug, 20 · in Uncategorized

Final Portrait *** (2017, Geoffrey Rush, Armie Hammer, Clémence Poésy, James Faulkner, Tony Shalhoub, Sylvie Testud) – Movie Review

Writer-director Stanley Tucci tells the quirky, amusing and strangely compelling story of world-renowned Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti (Geoffrey Rush) and the American writer and art-lover James Lord (Armie Hammer) he asks to sit […]

Aug, 20 · in Uncategorized

The Dark Tower * (2017, Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Taylor) – Movie Review

English teen actor Tom Taylor (born 16 July 2001) gives a reasonable performance as 11-year-old New Yorker Jake Chambers having visions involving a Gunslinger who opposes a Man in Black bent on destroying a Tower and ruining […]

Aug, 20

The Hitman’s Bodyguard ** (2017, Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L Jackson, Gary Oldman, Salma Hayek, Richard E Grant, Elodie Yung) – Movie Review

Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L Jackson are a great double act in The Hitman’s Bodyguard (2017) as the world’s top bodyguard and his new hit man client, whom he must get to the International Court […]

Aug, 20

Emperor of the North Pole [Emperor of the North] **** (1973, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine) – Classic Movie Review 5943

The splendid 1973 movie Emperor of the North Pole [Emperor of the North] is a spectacular, violently tough slap-up Thirties Oregon, Depression-set action thriller from producer-director Robert Aldrich, with a great script by Christopher Knopf, […]

Aug, 20

The Emperor Waltz *** (1948, Bing Crosby, Joan Fontaine, Roland Culver, Lucile Watson, Richard Haydn) – Classic Movie Review 5942

The acid Billy Wilder directs a 1948 film of a sugary Viennese operetta, and the resulting romantic comedy musical is extremely well done. Bing Crosby is improbably cast but ingratiating as a pushy American gramophone salesman […]

Aug, 20

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court *** (1949, Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, William Bendix, Cedric Hardwicke, Henry Wilcoxon, Murvyn Vye, Virginia Field) – Classic Movie Review 5941

Bing Crosby is quite the homespun charmer and certainly a wizard with the catchy songs, particularly the classic ‘Busy Doing Nothing’, in the 1949 American Technicolor comedy musical film A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. […]

Aug, 20

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