Derek Winnert

Rocky II *** (1979, Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith) – Classic Movie Review 7828

The 1979 boxing movie sequel Rocky II provides another fistful of dollars for Sylvester Stallone as writer, director and star of this virtual reprise of the original 1976 Rocky. In this one, the unemployed, inarticulate, […]

Nov, 24 · in Reviews

Rocky IV *** (1985, Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Brigitte Nielsen, Tony Burton) – Classic Movie Review 7827

Dolph Lundgren stars in writer-director Sylvester Stallone’s 1985 boxing movie sequel Rocky IV as Russian boxer Ivan Drago, the so-called ‘Siberian Express’, who delivers a final knockout blow to Rocky Balboa (Stallone)’s old rival and […]

Nov, 24 · in Reviews

Robin Hood ** (2018, Taron Egerton, Jamie Foxx, Ben Mendelsohn, Eve Hewson, Tim Minchin, Jamie Dornan, F Murray Abraham) – Movie Review

Another Robin Hood film? Really? Though it is amazingly eight years since Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood (2010), director Otto Bathurst’s 2018 Robin Hood just goes to show that it is not nearly long enough. Cheeky chappy modern-day actor Taron Egerton is miscast […]

Nov, 24

Creed II *** (2018, Michael B Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad, Dolph Lundgren, Florian Munteanu) – Movie Review

After 42 years, Creed II is the eighth film in the incredibly long-running Rocky franchise and the second focused on Apollo Creed’s son Adonis Creed (Michael B Jordan). Well that is a milestone and possibly some kind of […]

Nov, 24

The Girl in the Spider’s Web *** (2018, Claire Foy, Sverrir Gudnason, Lakeith Stanfield, Stephen Merchant, Christopher Convery, Beau Gadsdon, Carlotta von Falkenhayn) – Movie Review

The 2018 New Dragon Tattoo Story, Uruguay director Fede Alvarez’s The Girl in the Spider’s Web, is a brisk, capable and coldly efficient noir-style action crime thriller, but it is also uber-dark, gruelling and deeply unpleasant, […]

Nov, 24

5 Bambole per la Luna d’Agosto [Five Dolls for an August Moon] *** (1970, William Berger, Ira von Fürstenberg, Edwige Fenech) – Classic Movie Review 7826

Director Mario Bava’s 1970 Italian giallo film 5 Bambole per la Luna d’Agosto [Five Dolls for an August Moon] is fascinating as a work of the much-admired cult film-maker and as a loose, uncredited adaptation of Agatha Christie’s novel And Then […]

Nov, 23

Il Rosso Segno della Follia [A Hatchet for the Honeymoon] [Blood Brides] *** (1970, Stephen Forsyth, Dagmar Lassander, Laura Betti, Femi Benussi) – Classic Movie Review 7825

Director Mario Bava’s typically stylish 1970 giallo film Il Rosso Segno della Follia [A Hatchet for the Honeymoon] stars Stephen Forsyth, Dagmar Lassander, Laura Betti, and Femi Benussi. The screenplay is written by Santiago Moncada. Stephen Forsyth stars as the handsome, 30-year-old John Harrington, […]

Nov, 23

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