Derek Winnert

Sheena * (1984, Tanya Roberts, Ted Wass, Donovan Scott) – Classic Movie Review 7628

Director John Guillermin’s 1984 lady in a loincloth comic book adventure Sheena suffers from an achingly poor screenplay by David Newman and Lorenzo Semple Jr, and it is deadly dull because no one seems to […]

Oct, 01 · in Reviews

The Rounders *** (1965, Glenn Ford, Henry Fonda, Sue Ane Langdon, Chill Wills, Edgar Buchanan) – Classic Movie Review 7627

Director Burt Kennedy’s 1965 The Rounders is an appealingly relaxed, humorous-toned Western with Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda both on excellent form as Ben and Howdy, a fairly dim-seeming pair of aging present-day bronco busters who […]

Oct, 01 · in Reviews

Support the Girls *** (2018, Regina Hall, Haley Lu Richardson, Dylan Gelula, James Le Gros) – Movie Review

Regina Hall is great as Lisa, the general manager at a Hooters-style fast food joint called Double Whammies, owned by sleazy Cubby (James Le Gros). Lisa is really brilliant at her job, which she loves. She […]

Sep, 30

Shadow [Ying] **** (2018, Chao Deng, Li Sun, Ryan Zheng) – Movie Review

Co-writer/director Zhang Yimou bounces back from his 2016 The Great Wall with Shadow [Ying], a spectacular-looking period action drama set in China’s Three Kingdom’s era of AD 220-280, that starts with a lot of talk, characterisation and plotting, running […]

Sep, 30

Crystal Swan [Khrustal] **** (2018, Alina Nasibullina, Ivan Mulin, Yuriy Borisov) – Movie Review

Director/ co-writer Darya Zhuk’s Crystal Swan [Khrustal] is an amusing and engaging Russian comedy set in Nineties Belarus, where young DJ Velya (Alina Nasibullina) is forced by a phone number typo in her forged US […]

Sep, 30

Wildlife **** (2018, Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan, Ed Oxenbould, Bill Camp) – Movie Review

Actor Paul Dano’s directorial debut is Wildlife (2018), in which a misfit teenage boy called Joe Brinson (Ed Oxenbould) witnesses his parents’ marriage falling apart after his frustrated father Jerry (Jake Gyllenhaal) loses his job as a golf […]

Sep, 30

Black ’47 **** (2018, Hugo Weaving, James Frecheville, Stephen Rea, Freddie Fox, Barry Keoghan, Jim Broadbent) – Movie Review

Director Lance Daly’s 2018 period action drama Black ’47 is a heart-pounding tale of brutal revenge set in Ireland amid the repression and starvation horrors of the great Irish famine of 1847. Sometimes, it is […]

Sep, 30

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