Derek Winnert

Big Wednesday **** (1978, Jan-Michael Vincent, William Katt, Gary Busey, Patti D’Arbanville, Lee Purcell, Barbara Hale) – Classic Movie Review 321

Co-writer/director John Milius’s 1978 cult movie favourite offers a poignant, haunting toast to male friendship, beaches, girls and perfect waves. Unfortunately, it was spurned for what they considered its lack of commercial chances by its […]

Oct, 25 · in Reviews

The Hasty Heart **** (1949, Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Richard Todd) – Classic Movie Review 320

Richard Todd rightly relishes his finest piece of acting in the movies, as an aloof Scottish wounded soldier unaware he’s dying, in the 1949 wartime drama film The Hasty Heart. It’s also Ronald Reagan’s finest […]

Oct, 25 · in Reviews

Closed Circuit ** (2013, Eric Bana, Rebecca Hall, Jim Broadbent) – Movie Review

Struggling with his English accent, Eric Bana is miscast and glum as Martin Rose, a Brit barrister charged with defending an immigrant accused of masterminding a Borough Market bombing. This promising London-set conspiracy spy thriller […]

Oct, 25

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 *** (2013, voices of Bill Hader, Anna Faris, Will Forte, James Caan, Andy Samberg, Benjamin Bratt, Neil Patrick Harris, Kristen Schaal, Terry Crews) – Movie Review

Flint Lockwood (voice of Bill Hader), his dad Tim (James Caan), spunky meteorologist Sam Sparks (Anna Faris) and Steve the Monkey (Neil Patrick Harris) are back in directors Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn’s modest but good-natured 2013 […]

Oct, 25

One Chance *** (2013, James Corden, Alexandra Roach, Julie Walters, Colm Meaney) – Movie Review

Putting away the abrasive side of his personality, James Corden is surprising likeable in this uplifting, funny, delightfully feel-good Brit biopic. He gives an extremely appealing, often showstopping turn as Britain’s Got Talent winner Paul Potts, a […]

Oct, 24

The Selfish Giant **** (2013, Conner Chapman, Shaun Thomas, Sean Gilder) – Movie Review

Hailed as one of 2013’s best British films, this is a bleak and depressing Brit social realist movie, set around the desolate Bradford outskirts. This is a god-forsaken place, where appallingly ugly, semi-declined housing estates back on […]

Oct, 24

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa – Film Review

Thanks to brilliant makeup and some nifty acting skills, the 42-year-old Johnny Knoxville is pretty darned convincing as the fictional 86-year-old Irving Zisman, who sets off here on a journey across America with his tubby, mouthy, […]

Oct, 24

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