Derek Winnert

Queen and Country **** (2014, Callum Turner, Caleb Landry Jones, David Thewlis, Richard E Grant, Pat Shortt, Sinéad Cusack) – Movie Review

Writer-director John Boorman’s sequel to his semi-autobiographical charmer Hope and Glory (1987) is an old-fashioned, civilised pleasure. Callum Turner stars as the grown up 19-year-old Bill Rohan who is drafted into the army, does basic training […]

Jun, 03 · in Reviews

London Road **** (2015, Olivia Colman, Kate Fleetwood, Tom Hardy) – Movie Review

Rufus Norris directs a BBC film of the British National Theatre’s stage show by Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork. It’s a really weird, uncomfortable and disturbing idea to turn the real-life story of the 2006 […]

Jun, 03 · in Reviews

Survivor ** (2015, Milla Jovovich, Pierce Brosnan, Dylan McDermott, Frances de la Tour, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Roger Rees) – Movie Review

Milla Jovovich stars as a kickass US State Department employee whose job on her new posted to the American embassy in London is stopping terrorists from getting into the US. With her brilliant instincts, she smells […]

Jun, 03

The Immortal Story [Histoire immortelle] **** (1968, Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Roger Coggio, Norman Eshley) – Classic Movie Review 2554

Director Orson Welles plays Mr Charles Clay, a rich Portuguese merchant in 19th-century Macao, who tells his clerk Levinsky (Roger Coggio) a true story he heard years before about a rich man who paid a poor […]

Jun, 03

Big Trouble in Little China **** (1986, Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun) – Classic Movie Review 2553

Director John Carpenter’s 1986 cult classic Big Trouble in Little China stars Kurt Russell in one of his iconic roles as Jack Burton, a trucker who gets sucked into a ‘centuries-old mystical battle’ in San Francisco’s […]

Jun, 03

Modern Times ***** (1936, Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman) – Classic Movie Review 2552

Charles Chaplin’s endlessly clever, inventive and witty 1936 satire on modern factory methods, inspired by René Clair’s famous 1931 left-wing satirical comedy À Nous la Liberté, is a silent comedy made nearly a decade after […]

Jun, 02

A Countess from Hong Kong **** (1967, Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, Charles Chaplin, Sydney Chaplin, Tippi Hedren, Patrick Cargill, Margaret Rutherford) – Classic Movie Review 2551

Marlon Brando stars in A Countess from Hong Kong as the rich American diplomat Ogden Mears who spends his last night in Hong Kong with Russian Countess Natascha (Sophia Loren), who follows him on board his […]

Jun, 02

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