Derek Winnert

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Tsotsi **** (2005, Presley Chweneyagae, Mothusi Magano, Israel Makoe) – Classic Movie Review 4386

The deserved 2006 Best Foreign Language Film winner charts six desperate days in the Johannesburg life of a young South African thug called Tsotsi (Presley Chweneyagae) who inadvertently kidnaps a baby during a car hijacking, […]

Sep, 19

The War Zone *** (1998, Freddie Cunliffe, Ray Winstone, Lara Belmont, Tilda Swinton, Colin Farrell, Kate Ashfield, Aisling O’Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 4382

An alienated teenage boy (Freddie Cunliffe) begins to suspect his father (Ray Winstone) is abusing his older sister (Lara Belmont) in director Tim Roth’s well-meaning, painstaking though alienating 1998 film of a controversial novel by […]

Sep, 19

Pink Cadillac *** (1989, Clint Eastwood, Bernadette Peters, Timothy Carhart, Geoffrey Lewis, William Hickey) – Classic Movie Review 4096

Director Buddy Van Horn’s engaging laid-back 1989 adventure comedy stars Clint Eastwood as Tommy Nowak, a wrinkly California bounty hunting bail-bondsman (or ‘skip-tracer’) who goes out of his way to befriend his current victim Roy McGuinn […]

Jul, 28

Omen IV: The Awakening * (1991, Faye Grant, Michael Woods, Michael Lerner) Classic Movie Review 4077

Directors Jorge Montesi and Dominique Othenin-Girard’s 1991 Omen IV: The Awakening proves a dismal attempt to re-awaken and re-animate a long-dead saga with a ludicrous script by Brian Taggert, inept acting and clumsy direction. It […]

Jul, 24

Spitfire ** (1934, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Young, Ralph Bellamy) – Classic Movie Review 3,940

Katharine Hepburn is a great actress, of course, but playing an illiterate hillbilly mountain girl is quite beyond her, especially one called Trigger Hicks! Director John Cromwell’s 1934 drama film Spitfire stars a miscast Katharine Hepburn, […]

Jun, 26

Three Men and a Baby **** (1987, Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson, Nancy Travis) – Classic Movie Review 3559

Leonard Nimoy is the director of this 1987 blockbuster comedy starring Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson as fun-loving bachelors who find a baby (played by twins Lisa and Michelle Blair) dumped in their […]

Apr, 12

The Ones Below **½ (2015, Clémence Poésy, David Morrissey, Stephen Campbell Moore, Laura Birn) – Movie Review

Clémence Poésy plays mother-to-be Kate, who has just moved into the top half of a house with her husband Justin (Stephen Campbell Moore). In true English fashion, they avoid their downstairs neighbours in the flat […]

Mar, 08

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