Derek Winnert

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Nocturama **** (2016, Finnegan Oldfield, Vincent Rottiers, Hamza Meziani, Manal Issa) – Movie Review

Writer-director Bertrand Bonello’s delirious, bonkers thriller is set in a troubled Paris, where a group of disaffected young men and women in their early twenties carry out four bomb attacks at various central locations and then hide […]

Oct, 17

My House in Umbria *** (2003, Maggie Smith, Ronnie Barker, Benno Fürmann, Emmy Clarke, Chris Cooper, Giancarlo Giannini, Timothy Spall, Libero De Rienzo) – Classic Movie Review 4360

Maggie Smith stars as romantic novelist Mrs Delahunty, who invites her fellow survivors of a terrorist train blast to convalesce in her Italian villa: the old British General (Ronnie Barker), the young German man Werner (Benno Fürmann) and […]

Sep, 13

Up the Sandbox *** (1972, Barbra Streisand, David Selby, Ariane Heller, Stockard Channing, Paul Dooley, Anne Ramsey) – Classic Movie Review 4,074

The awkward but ambitious 1972 comedy-drama film Up the Sandbox stars Barbra Streisand as a pregnant New Yorker, who feels bored with her life and neglected by her husband (David Selby), and takes to fantasising, […]

Jul, 24

From Paris with Love * (2010, John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kasia Smutniak) – Classic Movie Review 3838

From Paris with Love is a disgracefully bad, utterly risible (but not in a good way) action comedy with a totally mismatched star team in John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, neither of whom should […]

Jun, 11

The Enforcer ** (1976, Clint Eastwood, Tyne Daly, Harry Guardino, Bradford Dillman) – Classic Movie Review 3810

Director James Fargo’s mechanical, violent, drearily plotted and slackly handled 1976 police thriller is not much above routine, though the admirable star team of Clint Eastwood and Tyne Daly, with their amusing rapport and repartee, manage to […]

Jun, 06

Iron Man 3 [Iron Man Three] **** (2013, Robert Downey Jr, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall) – Classic Movie Review 3599

Robert Downey Jr continues his charismatic performance as industrialist inventor Tony Stark aka Iron Man in director Shane Black’s exciting, confidently handled sequel to 2008’s Iron Man and 2010’s Iron Man 2, the seventh film in the Marvel Cinematic […]

Apr, 22

Labyrinth of Passion [Laberinto de Pasiones] **½ (1982, Cecilia Roth, Imanol Arias, Helga Liné, Antonio Banderas, Marta Fernández Muro) – Classic Movie Review 3578

Spanish enfant terrible cult director Pedro Almodóvar‘s 1982 second feature film arrived belatedly in Britain in 1992 on the back of his later hits. Almodóvar’s early, hesitant sex comedy is more oddball than screwball. Celia Roth stars […]

Apr, 17

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