Derek Winnert

Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger ** (1977, Patrick Wayne, Jane Seymour, Taryn Power) – Classic Movie Review 3717

Patrick Wayne is dull as Sinbad in director Sam Wanamaker’s less exciting 1977 sequel to The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958, played by Kerwin Mathews) and The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973, played by John Phillip Law). […]

May, 19 · in Reviews

Sing Street **** (2016, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Aidan Gillen, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Jack Reynor, Lucy Boynton, Mark McKenna) – Movie Review

Ferdia Walsh-Peelo stars as Connor ‘Cosmo’ Lawler, a teenage boy growing up in Dublin during the mid-Eighties, who escapes his strained family life with his parents (Aidan Gillen, Maria Doyle Kennedy) by starting a new romantic pop band with […]

May, 19 · in Uncategorized

The Silent Storm ** (2014, Damian Lewis, Andrea Riseborough, Ross Anderson) – Movie Review

Writer-director Corinna McFarlane’s romantic drama is her directorial debut and stars Andrea Riseborough as Aislin, who finds herself living and working on a remote Scottish island both with her abusive and crazy fire-and-brimstone minister husband Balor (Damian Lewis) […]

May, 18

Baskin *** (2015, Mehmet Cerrahoglu, Gorkem Kasal, Ergun Kuyucu) – Movie Review

Writer-director Can Evrenol makes his feature début, after eight short films, remaking his eighth short Baskin. He goes all out to shock in his Turkish horror movie story that follows a squad of unsuspecting cops who first bicker and […]

May, 18

The Nice Guys **** (2016, Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Angourie Rice, Matt Bomer, Kim Basinger) – Movie Review

Co-writer/director Shane Black’s invigoratingly dark and cynical action comedy thriller is just great. It manages to be both funny and exciting, and a makes for a brilliant, exhilarating evening in the cinema for grown-ups. Russell Crowe […]

May, 18

Lethal Weapon 2 *** (1989, Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Joss Ackland, Derrick O’Connor, Patsy Kensit) – Classic Movie Review 3716

Lethal Weapon screen-writer Shane Black created the characters and co-wrote the story (with Warren Murphy) for this snappy, adroit and of course violent sequel to the 1987 hit. Mel Gibson and Danny Glover are back as two of America’s unlikeliest […]

May, 18

Alice Through the Looking Glass *** (2016, Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Sacha Baron Cohen, Rhys Ifans, Lindsay Duncan, Ed Speleers) – Movie Review

Most of the original cast are back for this belated Disney sequel to Tim Burton’s 2010 box-office hit Alice in Wonderland. But this time James Bobin is the director, and Burton is a producer, though the […]

May, 17

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