Derek Winnert

High-Rise ** (2015, Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans, Elisabeth Moss, James Purefoy) – Movie Review

Director Ben Wheatley’s ambitious but excruciating satire is on the one hand an admirable British art film but on the other hand incredibly hard to sit through. One hour is quite enough, thank you. A handful […]

Apr, 01 · in Reviews

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 *½ (2016, Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Michael Constantine, Lainie Kazan, Andrea Martin) – Movie Review

The 52-year-old Nia Vardalos returns as writer and star for this cosy, bland, lame and over-broadly farcical sequel to the 2002 blockbuster comedy My Big Fat Greek Wedding. To be fair, it has some funny […]

Apr, 01 · in Reviews

No Sex Please: We’re British **½ (1973, Ronnie Corbett, Beryl Reid, Arthur Lowe) – Classic Movie Review 3510

Ronnie Corbett gets a rare top star billing in this 1973 film version of the famous theatre farce as the local Barclays Bank head cashier Brian Runnicles, who slowly starts to have a nervous breakdown when […]

Apr, 01

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ***½ (2016, Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeremy Irons, Gal Gadot) – Movie Review

Zack Snyder’s critically bashed superhero head-to-head is a box-office sensation, maybe surprisingly so, maybe not. The two for the price of one deal of infinitely rich and tormented human wrong-righter plus infinitely handsome and conflicted […]

Mar, 30

The Miracle Worker ***** (1962, Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory, Inga Swenson) – Classic Movie Review 3509

Securing the role against studio choices Audrey Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman or Elizabeth Taylor, Anne Bancroft re-creates her Tony-winning Broadway stage performance as the devoted but determined Boston teacher Annie Sullivan, who tutors and cares for […]

Mar, 30

The Boy ** (2015, Lauren Cohan, Rupert Evans, Diana Hardcastle, Jim Norton, Ben Robson, James Russell) – Movie Review

Lauren Cohan stars as Greta, young American woman who comes to UK for the first time on the run from her past and takes a job with a creepy elderly couple, Mrs and Mr Heelshire (Diana Hardcastle, […]

Mar, 29

Buchanan Rides Alone **** (1958, Randolph Scott, Craig Stevens, Manuel Rojas, Barry Kelley, Peter Whitney, L Q Jones, Tol Avery) – Classic Movie Review 3,508

Budd Boetticher’s 1958 cult classic Western film Buchanan Rides Alone stars Randolph Scott as Texas cowboy drifter Buchanan, who rides alone against a nasty dynasty who run the Tex-Mex border town of Agry. Director Budd […]

Mar, 29

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