Derek Winnert

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Mad Max: Fury Road **** (2015, Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult) – Movie Review

The explosive Fury Road is spectacularly fast and furious, with a quirky set of ideas and some of the screen’s most astonishing visuals. Imperator Furiosa: ‘You never gonna have a better chance.’ Max Rockatansky: ‘At […]

May, 14

Pitch Perfect 2 **** (2015, Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Hailee Steinfeld, Elizabeth Banks) – Movie Review

In this welcome, aca-magical sequel to the 2012 hit, the all-girl Barden Bellas a cappella group are humiliated at a performance before the US President at Lincoln Center. Banned from collegiate a cappella, it’s all over for […]

May, 12

Monsters: Dark Continent **½ (2014, Sam Keeley, Johnny Harris, Joe Dempsie, Kyle Soller) – Movie Review

The US Army sends in more men to deal with a new insurgency in the Middle East, where there is a proliferation of monsters. That setup and the ensuing plot are fair enough but this is […]

Apr, 29

International Velvet *** (1978, Tatum O’Neal, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Hopkins, Nanette Newman, Peter Barkworth, Dinsdale Landen, Sarah Bullen, Richard Warwick, Jeffrey Byron) – Classic Movie Review 2433

Writer-director Bryan Forbes’s belated, though still welcome 1978 children’s movie is the sequel to National Velvet (1944) and based on the original 1935 novel by Enid Bagnold. It is, in the words of the title […]

Apr, 28

Carry On England ** (1976, Kenneth Connor, Joan Sims, Peter Butterworth, Judy Geeson, Windsor Davies, Jack Douglas, Melvyn Hayes, Patrick Mower) – Classic Movie Review 2376

Director Gerald Thomas’s laborious 1976 Carry On film is the 28th and penultimate movie in the beloved innuendo-ridden series – at least until the 90s revival Carry On Columbus added a final 30th. It is […]

Apr, 11

Carry On Again Doctor *** (1969, Kenneth Williams, Sidney James, Jim Dale, Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques, Barbara Windsor, Charles Hawtrey) – Classic Movie Review 2374

Director Gerald Thomas assembles a vintage Carry On cast of the familiar funny faces in 1969 for this more or less consistently amusing if slightly less funny attempt to repeat the success of the big hit […]

Apr, 11

The Town That Dreaded Sundown *** (2014, Addison Timlin, Veronica Cartwright, Anthony Anderson, Joshua Leonard, Gary Cole) – Movie Review

Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s masked killer movie is an effective, creepy, clever and stylish reworking and updating of an old horror favourite. It’s just a little bit different with its references to the 1976 original movie, setting it out […]

Apr, 11

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