Derek Winnert

Blown Away *** (1994, Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Suzy Amis, Lloyd Bridges, Forest Whitaker) – Classic Movie Review 7677

Director Stephen Hopkins’s 1994 action crime thriller Blown Away is an involving, suspenseful and intelligent thriller but at the same time it is uncomfortable and exploitative feeling. Jeff Bridges stars as Boston bomb squad man […]

Oct, 19 · in Reviews

License to Drive [Licence to Drive] * (1988, Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Carol Kane, Richard Masur, Heather Graham) – Classic Movie Review 7676

The title of director Greg Beeman’s 1988 film License to Drive [Licence to Drive] focuses audience attention on exactly what bad boy Les Anderson (Corey Haim) hasn’t got. He failed his driving test, but that doesn’t […]

Oct, 19 · in Reviews

Benjamin *** (2018, Colin Morgan, Phénix Brossard, Anna Chancellor, Joel Fry, Jack Rowan) – Movie Review

Colin Morgan stars as the dazed and confused gay film-maker Benjamin in writer-director Simon Amstell’s amusing and appealing, bittersweet romantic comedy called Benjamin oddly enough. Colin Morgan, last seen in Rupert Everett’s The Happy Prince (2018) as […]

Oct, 19

Red Ball Express *** (1952, Jeff Chandler, Alex Nicol, Sidney Poitier, Charles Drake, Judith Braun, Hugh O’Brian, Jacqueline Duval, Jack Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 7675

Director Budd Boetticher’s 1952 World War Two-set wartime adventure Red Ball Express follows the route of the truck division of the title in their desperate journey through enemy-occupied French territory delivering supplies to General Patton’s […]

Oct, 19

Can You Ever Forgive Me? **** (2018, Melissa McCarthy, Richard E Grant, Dolly Wells, Ben Falcone) – Movie Review

Melissa McCarthy is now officially forgiven for Tammy, Spy and The Heat. Her winning performance as complicated alcoholic lesbian forger Lee Israel in director Marielle Heller’s comedy drama biopic Can You Ever Forgive Me? is the cornerstone […]

Oct, 19

Burning [Beoning] **** (2018, Ah-In Yoo, Steven Yeun, Jong-seo Jeon) – Movie Review

Ah-In Yoo stars as Jong-su, a young South Korean graduate in creative writing, would-be novelist and part-time worker. One day, while out delivering, he meets and reconnects with Hae-mi (Jong-seo Jeon), who grew up in […]

Oct, 18

The Favourite **** (2018, Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Emma Stone, Nicholas Hoult, Joe Alwyn, Mark Gatiss) – Movie Review 

The Favourite (2018) is a most elegant, sophisticated and hugely entertaining dark comedy drama from director Yorgos Lanthimos. I was going to say it is a true original, but then it is very much like a […]

Oct, 18

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