Derek Winnert

Hamlet *** (1990, Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Ian Holm, Alan Bates) – Classic Movie Review 1294

Co-writer/director Franco Zeffirelli’s 1990 Shakespeare movie has an unexpected star in Mel Gibson, who personifies the much-tormented Prince of Denmark lustily and honourably, giving a strong, earnest performance. It was a brave thing to do since Gibson’s only […]

Jun, 05 · in Reviews

Sphinx ** (1981, Lesley-Anne Down, Frank Langella, John Gielgud) – So Bad It’s Good Movie 13

Lesley-Anne Down enjoys a huge but ill-starred star role as the resolute archaeologist Erica Baron in the infamous 1981 so-bad-it’s-good movie Sphinx. Lesley-Anne Down enjoys a huge but ill-starred star role in the infamous 1981 […]

Jun, 05 · in Reviews

Fruitvale Station **** (2013, Michael B. Jordan, Octavia Spencer, Melonie Diaz) – Movie Review

Writer-director Ryan Coogler tells the true story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old African American California Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family and strangers on the last day of 2008. It ends […]

Jun, 05

Grace of Monaco ** (2014, Nicole Kidman, Tim Roth) – Movie Review

Grace of Monaco is not devoid of interest but it is a drab mess, with an oddly blank Nicole Kidman and a weirdly brooding Tim Roth both hopelessly miscast both as physical and character types as […]

Jun, 05

22 Jump Street *** (2014, Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube, Amber Stevens, Peter Stormare, Jillian Bell, Dave Franco, Seth Rogen) – Movie Review

Soppy American police officers Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) are once again sent age-inappropriately undercover, this time as students at a local college, after finally having made their way through high school twice. Nothing much has […]

Jun, 05

The Abyss **** (1989, Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn) – Classic Movie Review 1293

Writer-director James Cameron’s expensive 1989 sci-fi thriller was a very rare box-office flop for him, taking only $90million worldwide. It’s hard to know quite what went wrong. It looks stunning and the trick work is […]

Jun, 05

Mission to Mars *** (2000, Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins, Jerry O’Connell) – Classic Movie Review 1292

Take the best bits of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the worst parts of The Abyss. Add in pieces of Contact, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Apollo 13 and just a dash of […]

Jun, 04

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