Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "sequel"

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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

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald ** (2018, Eddie Redmayne, Johnny Depp, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Ezra Miller) – Movie Review

The second installment of J K Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts series set in the Wizarding World again stars Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander. Redmayne’s shambling, mumbling performance is dull, but not as dull as the movie, which […]

Nov, 17

Return of the Living Dead: Part III *** (1992, Kent McCord, James T Callahan, Sarah Douglas, J Trevor Edmond, Mindy Clarke) – Classic Movie Review 7704

Producer-director Brian Yuzna’s 1992 Return of the Living Dead: Part III is a useful, low-budget ($2,000,000 ) third episode, in which a young army brat, Curt (J Trevor Edmond), gets hold of the zombie-making chemical […]

Oct, 25

Shaft’s Big Score! *** (1972, Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Drew Bundini Brown, Joseph Mascolo, Julius W Harris, Joe Santos) – Classic Movie Review 7625

Richard Roundtree recreates the role of hardboiled Harlem private eye John Shaft in director Gordon Parks’ s 1972 blaxploitation action crime thriller Shaft’s Big Score!, the tip-top first sequel to the enormously successful 1971 original […]

Sep, 29

Smokey and the Bandit II *** (1980, Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Sally Field, Dom DeLuise, Paul Williams, Pat McCormick) – Classic Movie Review 7559

Director Hal Needham’s 1980 action comedy sequel Smokey and the Bandit II (aka Smokey and the Bandit Ride Again) brings Burt Reynolds back from the 1977 hit original Smokey and the Bandit as truck driver […]

Sep, 11

Life at the Top *** (1965, Laurence Harvey, Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman) – Classic Movie Review 7433

Director Ted Kotcheff’s modest but diverting enough 1965 drama Life at the Top is the soap-opera-style sequel to Room at the Top (1959) that, even while it entertains, misses the quality and bitter taste of the […]

Aug, 12

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again *** (2018, Lily James, Amanda Seyfried, Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Christine Baranski, Julie Walters) – Movie Review

The bad news is this is the first weekend ever where eight of the top ten films at the box office were sequels – and this is one of them. At least Mamma Mia! Here We […]

Jul, 23

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