Derek Winnert

We Are Many ***½ (2015, Mark Rylance, Danny Glover, Ken Loach, Damon Albarn, Ron Kovic, Tony Benn, John Le Carré) – Movie Review

Writer-director Amir Amirani’s important and stirring documentary focuses on the biggest demonstration in history, which took place on 15 February 2003, against the impending war on Iraq. The global protest proved a pivotal moment in recent […]

May, 14 · in Reviews

Girlhood [Bande de filles] *** (2014, Karidja Touré, Assa Sylla, Lindsay Karamoh) – Movie Review

Writer-director Céline Sciamma‘s engrossing French coming-of-age epic tackles the thorny though much-examined issues of race, class and non-conformity, but in a fresh and furious way. Karidja Touré (actually 20 at the time) is remarkable in […]

May, 14 · in Reviews

Mad Max: Fury Road **** (2015, Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult) – Movie Review

The explosive Fury Road is spectacularly fast and furious, with a quirky set of ideas and some of the screen’s most astonishing visuals. Imperator Furiosa: ‘You never gonna have a better chance.’ Max Rockatansky: ‘At […]

May, 14

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ****½ (1973, James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Richard Jaeckel, Bob Dylan, Katy Jurado, Chill Wills, Slim Pickens, Jason Robards Jnr, Jack Elam, John Beck) – Classic Movie Review 2,480

Sam Peckinpah’s fascinating, now legendary 1973 Western film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid retells the legend of Sheriff Pat Garrett (James Coburn) hunting down his old friend Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson). Director Sam […]

May, 13

Vera Cruz ***** (1954, Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Denise Darcel, Cesar Romero, George Macready, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Elam) – Classic Movie Review 2479

Director Robert Aldrich’s great 1954 Western features a standoff between great stars Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster, representing the faces of good and evil, well, sort of. Cooper plays nice former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane, while Lancaster […]

May, 13

The Innocent Sleep *** (1996, Rupert Graves, Michael Gambon, Annabella Sciorra, Franco Nero, Oliver Cotton, Graham Crowden, John Hannah) – Classic Movie Review 2478

Director Scott Michell’s 1996 British thriller stars Rupert Graves who plays a real-life English north-country tramp called Alan Terry living homeless outside beside London’s Tower Bridge. One night he witnesses a killing, a mob execution. […]

May, 13

Camp **** (2003, Don Dixon, Daniel Letterle, Joanna Chilcoat, Anna Kendrick) – Classic Movie Review 2477

Young showbiz hopefuls join a summer musical camp and put on a show, guided by alcoholic, washed-up Broadway choreographer-songwriter Bert Hanley (Don Dixon). The talented teens sing their socks off in writer-director Todd Graff’s sweet, […]

May, 12

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