Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

Prime Cut **** (1972, Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Sissy Spacek) – Classic Movie Review 2,964

The brilliant, controversial 1972 American action crime thriller film Prime Cut stars Lee Marvin as a Chicago mob enforcer sent to Kansas to collect a debt from a meatpacker boss (Gene Hackman) who grinds his enemies […]

Oct, 07

Rollerball * (2002, Chris Klein, Jean Reno, LL Cool J, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Naveen Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 2963

In a future world of 2005 with neither war nor crime, the public’s aggression is channelled into the ultra-violent sport of rollerball, a kind of basketball played on spiked motorbikes and deadly skates. Director John McTiernan’s […]

Oct, 06

Rollerball ***** (1975, James Caan, John Houseman, Ralph Richardson, Maud Adams, John Beck, Moses Gunn) – Classic Movie Review 2,962

Norman Jewison’s 1975 futuristic sci-fi thriller film Rollerball is a triumph. It stars an outstanding James Caan, John Houseman, Ralph Richardson, Maud Adams, John Beck and Moses Gunn. Producer-director Norman Jewison’s 1975 futuristic sci-fi thriller film […]

Oct, 06

Basic * (2003, John Travolta, Connie Nielsen, Samuel L Jackson, Giovanni Ribisi, Brian Van Holt) – Classic Movie Review 2961

Director John McTiernan’s all-too-basic 2003 thriller stars John Travolta and Connie Nielsen as DEA drug agents who investigate deaths in the American army. The deaths seem to involve a sadistic sergeant, played by Samuel L Jackson. […]

Oct, 06

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