Derek Winnert

Dead of Night ***** (1945, Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Roland Culver, Googie Withers, Sally Ann Howes) – Classic Movie Review 399

‘Suitable only for adults’, according to the poster, the famous vintage 1945 British chiller Dead of Night about a man’s fear of impending doom is satisfying, polished and still truly creepy. The hero’s half-remembered recurring […]

Nov, 13 · in Reviews

In Fear – Film Review

Young English couple Tom (Iain De Caestecker) and Lucy (Alice Englert) leave a pub after an argument with the locals and set off in their car on their way to a weekend music festival in […]

Nov, 13 · in Reviews

Dom Hemingway * (2013, Jude Law, Richard E Grant, Demian Bichir, Madalina Ghenea) – Movie Review

Jude Law tries a role he isn’t really suited for – notorious safe-cracking lowlife Dom Hemingway, who’s served 12 years in prison after keeping his mouth shut and is now back on the streets of London looking […]

Nov, 13

Drugstore Cowboy ***** (1989, Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, James Le Gros, Heather Graham, James Remar) – Classic Movie Review 398

The 25-year-old Matt Dillon blazes across the screen in director Gus Van Sant’s powerful, riveting and acutely observed, anti-drugs drama from 1989. It scores strongly with its unusual, thought-proving, intelligently scripted story about a group of […]

Nov, 12

The Counsellor ** (2013, Michael Fassbender, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem, Brad Pitt, Bruno Ganz, Rosie Perez, Rubén Blades, Goran Visnjic, Édgar Ramírez) – Movie Review

Michael Fassbender stars in Ridley Scott’s sinister, smart-looking 2013 neo noir film The Counsellor as a rich, successful wheeler-dealer lawyer, who decides to get involved in the drug trafficking business. Michael Fassbender stars in the […]

Nov, 12

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire *** (2013, Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth) – Movie Review

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is more or less just a rerun of the first one in the series, 2012’s The Hunger Games, with a cliffhanging ending. The story is almost exactly the same as […]

Nov, 12

My Own Private Idaho **** (1991, River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo) – Classic Movie Review 397

Writer-director Gus Van Sant’s 1991 cult favourite follow-up to the 1989 hit Drugstore Cowboy is a bravely, inspiringly poetic study of a friendship between two young male hustlers, both with parent issues. Two teen heart-throbs of the […]

Nov, 12

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