Derek Winnert

The Four Feathers ***½ (2002, Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Kate Hudson) – Classic Movie Review 2851

Young Aussie star Heath Ledger (aged 23) cuts a convincing and stylish dash as English gentleman Harry Faversham in director Shekhar Kapur’s lusty 2002 epic movie version of The Four Feathers by A E W […]

Aug, 26 · in Reviews

Straight Outta Compton *** (2015, O’Shea Jackson Jr, Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Neil Brown Jr, Aldis Hodge) – Movie Review

Director F Gary Gray’s biopic of mid/late-Eighties rap pioneers NWA from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles merges the expected anger, guns and violence with much, less predictable, humour and sentimentality, making for a complex, informative and […]

Aug, 26 · in Reviews

Hitman: Agent 47 ** (2015, Rupert Friend, Hannah Ware, Zachary Quinto) – Movie Review

A grim, shaven-headed Rupert Friend stars an elite assassin genetically engineered to be the perfect killing machine, with huge strength, speed, stamina and intelligence. Director Aleksander Bach‘s Hitman reboot, based on the video game series, is […]

Aug, 26

We Are Your Friends *** (2015, Zac Efron, Shiloh Fernandez, Alex Shaffer, Jonny Weston, Wes Bentley, Emily Ratajkowski) – Movie Review

Zac Efron, Shiloh Fernandez, Alex Shaffer and a brutalist shaven-headed Jonny Weston star as a quartet of 23-year-old drifters in a poor area of Hollywood (there’s a poor area of Hollywood?) who are still trying to […]

Aug, 26

The Wolfpack **** (2015, Bhagavan Angulo, Govinda Angulo, Jagadisa Angulo) – Movie Review

First-time director Crystal Moselle‘s documentary about the six Angulo brothers is the most impressive and essential personal biography since Amy. Locked in safe from the supposedly harmful outside world by their parents at home in […]

Aug, 26

L’Eclisse [The Eclipse] ***** (1962, Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Francisco Rabal) – Classic Movie Review 2,850

Michelangelo Antonioni’s electrifying 1962 world cinema classic stars beguiling Monica Vitti as a translator in Rome, who leaves her older lover (Francisco Rabal) and starts a new relationship with a young stockbroker (Alain Delon). Director […]

Aug, 25

The Haunted Palace *** (1963, Vincent Price, Debra Paget, Lon Chaney Jr) – Classic Movie Review 2849

Director Roger Corman’s fine 1963 chiller once again stars Vincent Price in the fourth in Corman’s cycle of eight films featuring connections with Edgar Allan Poe stories, released by American International Pictures. This time Price […]

Aug, 25

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