Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Breaking In * (2018, Gabrielle Union, Billy Burke, Richard Cabral) – Movie Review

Gabrielle Union stars in director James McTeigue’s strained and implausible thriller Breaking In (2018) as Shaun Russell, who turns up at the great home her father has just left her, along with her two kids Jasmine and Justin […]

May, 18 · in Reviews

Life of the Party * (2018, Melissa McCarthy, Debby Ryan, Gillian Jacobs, Jessie Ennis) – Movie Review

Melissa McCarthy stars in Life of the Party (2018) as hearty middle-aged mother Deanna, whose husband (Matt Walsh) suddenly calmly announces he’s got a newer model, the attractive realtor (Julie Bower), and is divorcing Deanna […]

May, 18 · in Reviews

Villain *** (1971, Richard Burton, Ian McShane, Nigel Davenport, Joss Ackland, Cathleen Nesbitt, Donald Sinden, T P McKenna, Fiona Lewis, Tony Selby, Colin Welland) – Classic Movie Review 7065

Director Michael Tuchner’s powerful but distasteful 1971 movie Villain is an effective but unattractive and revoltingly violent British gangster thriller, with Richard Burton giving a strong account of himself in an extremely nasty and unsympathetic […]

May, 17

Walk on the Wild Side **** (1962, Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda, Anne Baxter, Barbara Stanwyck) – Classic Movie Review 7064

Dove Linkhorn: ‘What are you doing here, Kit?’ Kitty Twist: ‘I run the candy concession.’ Despite the film’s original release public relations hysteria as really hot stuff, director Edward Dmytryk’s would-be shocking 1962 movie proves […]

May, 17

The Victors ** (1963, George Peppard, George Hamilton, Albert Finney, Melina Mercouri, Eli Wallach, Vince Edwards, Jeanne Moreau, Elke Sommer, Senta Berger, Peter Fonda, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet) – Classic Movie Review 7063

Unfortunately, you expect more from this earnest, massive 1963 Anglo-American anti-war epic than either the writer-producer-director Carl Foreman or his big all-star team of 15 leading American and European players can deliver. The Victors follows a squad […]

May, 16

Dreaming of Joseph Lees * (1999, Rupert Graves, Samatha Morton, Frank Finlay, Lee Ross) – Classic Movie Review 7062

In Fifties Somerset, England, Eva (Samatha Morton) is looking after her forgetful dad (Frank Finlay) and living with her crazy farmer lover Harry (Lee Ross), but loves her childhood sweetheart Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves). Director […]

May, 16

Raid on Entebbe *** (1976, Peter Finch, Charles Bronson, Yaphet Kotto, Martin Balsam, Horst Buchholz, John Saxon, Jack Warden) – Classic Movie Review 7061

Director Irvin Kershner’s Raid on Entebbe was made as an NBC TV movie, aired on 9 January 1977, but, thanks to the good reviews it won and its popular all-star ensemble cast, a film version was then released […]

May, 16

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