Derek Winnert

Black Coal, Thin Ice [Bai ri yan huo] **** (2014, Fan Liao, Lun Mei Gwei, Xuebing Wang) – Movie Review

Writer-director Yi’nan Diao’s cop mystery thriller starts with several dismembered corpses being discovered in a northern China small town and the investigating officer, Zhang (Fan Liao), coming up against a femme fatale (Lun Mei Gwei) working in a laundry. After a […]

Jun, 05 · in Uncategorized

Shooting for Socrates ** (2014, John Hannah, Art Parkinson) – Movie Review

John Hannah does his best as eccentric Northern Ireland coach Billy Bingham in writer-director James Erskine‘s well-meaning but plodding story of Northern Ireland’s 1986 World Cup campaign. Art Parkinson plays footie-mad nine year old Tommy, […]

Jun, 04 · in Uncategorized

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films *** (2014) – Movie Review

Mark Hartley’s documentary of the men behind Cannon Films – wheeler-dealer Israeli producer-director team Menahem Golan [who died on August 8 2014, aged 85] and Yoram Globus – is hugely entertaining and informative. The cousins made, produced and […]

Jun, 04

Second Coming **** (2014, Nadine Marshall, Idris Elba, Kai Francis Lewis) – Movie Review

There’s good acting everywhere in debut writer-director Debbie Tucker Green’s notable slice-of-life drama about the struggles of a lower middle-class black family living in south London. Nadine Marshall is excellent as Jax, a counter worker […]

Jun, 04

Listen Up Philip **** (2014, Jason Schwartzman, Elisabeth Moss, Jonathan Pryce, Krysten Ritter) – Movie Review

Jason Schwartzman triumphs over a difficult-to-play, unsympathetic role as the angry, arrogant, conceited writer Philip, awaiting the publication of his second novel. His relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley (Elisabeth Moss) is deteriorating, and he refuses […]

Jun, 04

The Overnight **** (2015, Adam Scott, Jason Schwartzman, Taylor Schilling, Judith Godrèche) – Movie Review

Writer-director Patrick Brice’s provocative adult comedy is a very saucy and amusing American indie with four fun star performances. Playing a bunch of weird characters, Jason Schwartzman and Adam Scott are both, er, very full […]

Jun, 04

Forbidden Planet ***** (1956, Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen) – Classic Movie Review 2,555

MGM’s landmark 1956 Forbidden Planet is one of the all-time great sci-fi films, looking thrilling in Eastmancolor and CinemaScope. It stars Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Jack Kelly, Richard Anderson and Earl […]

Jun, 04

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