Derek Winnert

Howl ***½ (2015, Ed Speleers, Holly Weston, Shauna Macdonald, Amit Shah, Sam Gittins, Elliot Cowan, Sean Pertwee, Duncan Preston, Rosie Day, Ania Marson) – Movie Review

Train guard/ ticket collector Joe (Ed Speleers) is having a very bad day. First he’s passed over for promotion and then the train his new boss sends him out on is attacked by werewolves! But […]

Oct, 09 · in Uncategorized

Papillon **** (1973, Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory) – Classic Movie Review 2967

Director Franklin J Schaffner’s 1973 prison drama stars a suitably gaunt-looking Steve McQueen as Henri ‘Papillon’ Charrière – the symbolic Butterfly of the story – in this long and expensive version of the best-selling novel by real-life […]

Oct, 08 · in Reviews

Regression ** (2015, Ethan Hawke, Emma Watson, David Thewlis) – Movie Review

A father (David Dencik) walks into a police station and confesses to a crime he has no memory of committing – abusing his daughter (Emma Watson). Writer-director Alejandro Amenábar’s ambitious and unsettling thinking person’s thriller tackles urgent […]

Oct, 07

Sicario **** (2015, Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro) – Movie Review

New US citizen Emily Blunt stars as idealistic FBI agent Kate Macer, who heads an FBI team on an pounding opening assault on an Arizona drug cartel hideaway, revealing a pile of bodies. Then Macer […]

Oct, 07

Suffragette ***½ (2015, Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Ben Whishaw, Meryl Streep) – Movie Review

It’s taken 100 years for a film about the Suffragette movement to reach the cinema screen. So, better make the most of it, now it’s here. We might have hoped for a biopic of the main […]

Oct, 07

Brother Sun, Sister Moon [Fratello Sole, Sorella Luna] *** (1972, Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, Leigh Lawson, Alec Guinness, Peter Firth) – Classic Movie Review 2966

Director Franco Zeffirelli originally conceived his 1972 biopic of St Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) back in the mid-Sixties and it is that decade’s idealistic, love-and-peace, love-as-all-you-need flavour that is stamped all over this hippyish youth-slanted […]

Oct, 07

The General’s Daughter *** (1999, John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, Timothy Hutton, James Woods) – Classic Movie Review 2965

John Travolta and Madeleine Stowe star as warrant officer CID detectives who are brought in to a Florida army base to investigate after retiring base commander Lieutenant General ‘Fighting Joe’ Campbell (James Cromwell)’s military daughter […]

Oct, 07

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