Derek Winnert

Gypsy **** (1993, Bette Midler, Peter Riegert, Cynthia Gibb, Ed Asner) – Classic Movie Review 3556

Bette Midler is brilliantly vibrant and vivacious as the ultimate showbiz mother Mama Rose Hovick, in Emile Ardolino’s 1993 film remake of the all-time great Jule Styne – Stephen Sondheim musical Gypsy. The ideally cast […]

Apr, 12 · in Reviews

Gypsy *** (1962, Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden) – Classic Movie Review 3555

Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1962 movie musical is good but it should have been great, and that’s partly because it makes the mistake of casting the wrong star in Rosalind Russell. and partly because it lacks […]

Apr, 12 · in Uncategorized

Despite the Falling Snow *** (2016, Rebecca Ferguson, Sam Reid, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Charles Dance, Anthony Head) – Movie Review

Rebecca Ferguson, Sam Reid, Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Charles Dance are all first rate in writer-director Shamim Sarif’s smart-looking, involving and intriguing old-style Cold War romantic spy thriller. The excellent Rebecca Ferguson stars as Fifties Moscow communist spy Katya, […]

Apr, 11

Criminal ** (2016, Kevin Costner, Gal Gadot, Gary Oldman, Alice Eve, Tommy Lee Jones, Ryan Reynolds, Michael Pitt) – Movie Review

Criminal may be fun, even a guilty pleasure, but it is a pretty bad sci-fi action thriller, with a ridiculous premise that’s impossible to swallow about the memories and skills of a dead CIA agent […]

Apr, 11

Eye in the Sky **** (2015, Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman, Barkhad Abdi, Iain Glen, Phoebe Fox) – Movie Review

Director Gavin Hood’s engrossing 2015 movie Eye in the Sky is a nerve-janglingly tense, thought-provoking thriller, with an ideal tough role for Helen Mirren as British Colonel Katherine Powell, a UK-based military officer in command of a […]

Apr, 11

Dheepan **** (2015, Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers) – Movie Review

The startling 2015 feature film Dheepan from Jacques Audiard, the maker of A Prophet and Rust and Bone, is quite an eye-opener and an emotional ride, as well as a real impressive piece of film-making, winning the […]

Apr, 11

Hardcore Henry **** (2015, Sharlto Copley, Danila Kozlovsky, Haley Bennett, Tim Roth) – Movie Review

Breathtaking, breathless, bizarre guilty pleasure Hardcore Henry will gross out many people and needs to come with a health warning. And here it is. It is an extremely violent movie with non-stop bloody brutal violence and […]

Apr, 10

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