Derek Winnert

Havana ** (1990, Robert Redford, Lena Olin, Alan Arkin, Tomas Milian, Raul Julia) – Classic Movie Review 5042

Director Sydney Pollack’s good-looking but disappointing 1990 romantic drama stars Robert Redford as card-playing gambler Jack Weil, who romances icy Nordic beauty Bobby Duran (Lena Olin), who is married to fiery Cuban aristocrat, Arturo Duran […]

Feb, 22 · in Reviews

Patriots Day **** (2016, Mark Wahlberg, Kevin Bacon, John Goodman, J K Simmons, Alex Wolff, Michelle Monaghan) – Movie Review

Patriots Day is strong, gripping, rousing real-life thriller stuff, vibrantly telling story of the 15 April 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and its aftermath. Mark Wahlberg makes a very good, everyman hero as police officer Sgt […]

Feb, 22 · in Reviews

A Cure for Wellness * (2016, Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs, Mia Goth) – Movie Review

It is good to have a horror movie in the mainstream, good to provide stonking great star roles for the always welcome and talented Dane DeHaan and Jason Isaacs, and good to have a great looking movie. That’s […]

Feb, 22

Logan **** (2017, Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant, Richard E Grant) – Movie Review

Death is everywhere in co-writer/ director James Mangold’s dark and dangerous R-rated movie follow-up to The Wolverine (2013), with Hugh Jackman back for what he has named his final turn as Logan. So the Logan movie is not […]

Feb, 22

It’s Only the End of the World [Juste la fin du monde] ** (2016, Gaspard Ulliel, Nathalie Baye, Vincent Cassel, Marion Cotillard, Léa Seydoux) – Movie Review

Gaspard Ulliel stars as young gay, terminally ill writer Louis, who returns home after a long time away of 12 years to re-connect (if possible) with his family and eventually tell them that he is […]

Feb, 22

The Scalphunters ***½ (1968, Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Telly Savalas, Ossie Davis, Dabney Coleman, Dan Vadis, Nick Cravat, Paul Picerni ) – Classic Movie Review 5041

Director Sydney Pollack’s enjoyable 1968 Western stars Burt Lancaster, who is in his element as rugged, dogged fur trapper Joe Bass, who ends up with well-educated runaway slave Joseph Lee (Ossie Davis) after a group […]

Feb, 21

Melody [S.W.A.L.K.] ** (1971, Jack Wild, Mark Lester, Tracy Hyde, Roy Kinnear, Sheila Steafel, Hilda Barry, Kate Williams) – Classic Movie Review 5038

Jack Wild and Mark Lester, the two young stars of Oliver!, reunite to much less effect for director Waris Hussein’s now very dated 1971 anti-establishment comedy romantic drama, with an original story and screenplay written […]

Feb, 21

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