Derek Winnert

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Rogue One *** (2016, Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk, Ben Mendelsohn, Riz Ahmed, Forest Whitaker, Mads Mikkelsen, Donnie Yen) – Movie Review

Lucasfilm’s competent and efficient but none too fascinating or inspired 2016 Star Wars spinoff plays like a spliced-together TV series with low-cost-looking sets and visual effects. It’s a shock to discover it cost $200,000,000. That money […]

Jan, 17

Captain Horatio Hornblower RN *** (1951, Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty, James Robertson Justice, Terence Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 4808

Gregory Peck stands steady in a tense and taciturn star turn as the fictional early 19th century British Navy hero Captain Horatio Hornblower at the helm of producer-director Raoul Walsh’s 1951 ocean-going story based on C […]

Dec, 23

Sergeants 3 ** (1962, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Joey Bishop) – Classic Movie Review 4760

Director John Sturges’s easy-going, good-natured 1961 Western comedy adventure movie stars Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis Jnr and Joey Bishop, as the Rat Pack remake and send up Gunga Din (1939), transplanted […]

Dec, 09

Santa Fe Trail **** (1940, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale Sr, William Lundigan, Van Heflin) – Classic Movie Review 4,750

Errol Flynn stars in Michael Curtiz’s 1940 American historical drama film Santa Fe Trail as officer Jeb Stuart, who is posted to Kansas in 1854 to help pacify the territory for railroad construction. The 1941 […]

Dec, 05

The Charge of the Light Brigade **** (1968, Trevor Howard, John Gielgud, David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Jill Bennett, Harry Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 4724

Director Tony Richardson’s last great film is a superb reworking of, as well as antidote to, the old romantic and heroic fictionalised Errol Flynn film The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), seen through the […]

Nov, 30

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 *** (2012, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner) – Classic Movie Review 3836

Breaking Dawn, the final story of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga is broken into two movies. Director Bill Condon’s 2012 Part 2 story begins with Kristen Stewart’s Bella, now a vampire, learning to use her new capabilities. It is preceded by Twilight […]

Jun, 11

Throne of Blood ***** [Kumonosu-jô] (1957, Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki) – Classic Movie Review 3732

Director Akira Kurosawa’s 1957 film masterpiece is a superb and stirring Japanese take on William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, topped off with a particularly rousing and exciting climax. It comes complete with a great central performance by […]

May, 21

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