Derek Winnert

Me Before You *** (2016, Emilia Clarke, Sam Claflin, Janet McTeer, Charles Dance) – Movie Review

The likeability factor is high in this appealing, old-fashioned rom-com weepie, with attractive performances. Emilia Clarke charms as Louisa, or just little Lou, a young English woman desperate for work, who ends up looking after […]

Jun, 02 · in Reviews

Warcraft ** (2016, Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell, Robert Kazinsky) – Movie Review

Let battle commence as 10-ft murderously ferocious orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonise another world invade the land of Azeroth as a portal opens to connect the two worlds. This epic fantasy is all […]

Jun, 02 · in Reviews

Morris from America *** (2016, Markees Christmas, Craig Robinson, Carla Juri, Lina Keller) – Movie Review

Markees Christmas plays  13-year-old African-American Morris, who has come from America and is living in Heidelberg, Germany, with his dad Curtis (Craig Robinson), who coaches professional soccer there. The film explores Morris’s romantic and coming-of-age misadventures as he […]

Jun, 01

The Real Howard Spitz ** (1998, Kelsey Grammer, Amanda Donohoe, Genevieve Tessier, Joseph Rutten) – Classic Movie Review 3793

Kelsey Grammer is the real Howard Spitz and Patrick McKenna is the fake one in director Vadim Jean’s relatively enjoyable, hardly seen 1998 family comedy film. Spitz is a grumpy, failed detective novelist until he meets […]

May, 30

Beyond Bedlam * (1994, Craig Fairbrass, Elizabeth Hurley, Keith Allen) – Classic Movie Review 3792

‘Psychological Terror Beyond Your Wildest Nightmares.’ Co-writer/director Vadim Jean’s 1994 British psychological murder thriller is an unappealing, far-fetched and slackly handled movie. In the story, based on the novel Bedlam by John Brosnan (writing as Harry Adam […]

May, 30

Thunderbirds *** (2004, Bill Paxton, Sophia Myles, Ron Cook, Ben Kingsley, Anthony Edwards, Brady Corbet, Vanessa Hudgens) – Classic Movie Review 3791

Yes, Thunderbirds are go again in director Jonathan Frakes’s smart-looking 2004 live-action comedy adventure Thunderbirds, based on Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s classic Sixties TV puppet stories of International Rescue. Sadly, all the strings, amateurish production and […]

May, 30

Leon the Pig Farmer *** (1992, Mark Frankel, Brian Glover, Janet Suzman, Connie Booth, David de Keyser) – Classic Movie Review 3790

Vadim Jean and Gary Sinyor’s exuberant, lively and inventive if raw and raggedy début film is loaded with good actors and irreverent Jewish stereotype humour. It won the FIPRESCI International Critics’ Prize at the Venice Film […]

May, 30

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