Derek Winnert

A Clockwork Orange ***** (1971, Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates) – Classic Movie Review 130

‘Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?’ Based on Anthony Burgess’s 1962 modern classic novel, now a provocative school study text as a set book, […]

Aug, 06 · in Reviews

Alan Partridge Alpha Papa – Film Review

Steve Coogan transfers his Norwich local DJ character from TV to the big screen with lots of energy and very considerable comic skill. There are many other actors straight and comedic to back him up, […]

Aug, 05 · in Reviews

The Madness of King George ***** (1994, Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm, Rupert Everett) – Classic Movie Review 129

‘His majesty was all-powerful and all-knowing. But he wasn’t quite all there.’ Oscar-nominated Nigel Hawthorne gives a right royal performance in his finest hour in the movies as mad King George III  (who reigned 1760-1820), […]

Aug, 05

From Here to Eternity ***** (1953, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Borgnine) – Classic Movie Review 128

Director Fred Zinnemann’s film of James Jones’s best-selling novel about the appallingly harsh rigours of army life and deep sexual frustrations in 1941 Hawaii caused a worldwide sensation in 1953. It went on to win eight […]

Aug, 05

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters **½ (2013, Logan Lerman, Alexandra Daddario, Brandon T Jackson, Anthony Head, Nathan Fillion, Stanley Tucci) – Movie Review

Three years on from The Lightning Thief, Logan Lerman is back as American teenager Percy Jackson, who’s discovered he’s the son of the Greek god Poseidon, in this second lark in which it won’t surprise […]

Aug, 04

From Up on Poppy Hill *** – Film Review

As a group of Japanese teens in Yokohama try to save their school’s antique clubhouse from demolition by a modernising capitalist in preparation for the Olympic Games in 1964, the wide-eyed heroine Umi is recruited […]

Aug, 04

Paradise: Hope – Film Review

In the final film of Austrian writer-director Ulrich Seidl’s striking trilogy, it’s the turn of the 13-year-old Melanie (Melanie Lenz) to take centre stage. While her mum is in Kenya engaging enthusiastically in sexual tourism […]

Aug, 04

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